AMD FX-6300 Vishera 3.5GHz (4.1GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W Six-Core Desktop Processor FD6300WMHKBOX

Pros: All I can say is that it overclocks great and the temps were solid

Cons: none

Pros: -Fast
-never any slow down running several intensive applications
-Cheap
-Effective

Cons: runs a little on the high side in temps, but not ridiculous and you probably should already know that, yeah?

Other Thoughts: If I had to, I'd probably get it all over again, it really delivers and helped me stay under my budget.

Pros: Six Cores
Very Easy To Overclock
Great for multitasking
Low Price

Cons: Not Free...

Other Thoughts: I would recommend AMD processors to anyone price/power is just great if you want the highest end machine go Intel this is a processor for a middle end machine not high end. Not for super heavy lifting, video rendering cut in half easily probably more, gaming highest possible, I can have 4 or 5 programs running easily, desktop recording, media player, rendering another video, browser with 4 or 5 tabs, libre office writter all at the same time no biggie.
Coming from a Core2Duo to this has been a great improvement.

Pros: A nice 6 core for the price.

Cons: Stock fan that comes with it does not do a good job at keeping temps low when it is under load while gaming. Mine will go up to about 50-55C

Other Thoughts: Had to take 1 egg off because of the fan. I would suggest buying an aftermarket cooler when you get this if you can.

Pros: only $120
Six Cores
Turbo up to 4.1
what else could you need

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: I have this paired with a Radeon HD 7790 and it is a great combo. I have a liquid cooled unit on it because I don't trust the little heat sink and fan include with the turbo running.

Pros: Wow, upgraded from a dual core E2200. I primarily use my rig for basic surfing with video rendering thrown in plus StarCraft II, Doctor Who, and Left 4 Dead 2. Video rendering times were cut down from 1 hour 15 for a 90 minute movie to right under 30 minutes. The six cores spread the job so that each was about 30% utilized simultaneously. This is a great improvement over what I had before with 99% utilization on both cores. I'm not concerned with heat at all since I keep the ambient room temperature to below 75 F at all times and the system hasn't cried foul yet.
I am also starting to use this CPU to support Virtual Box running SuSe and it is handling it like a champ with extra capacity to handle me surfing and watching movies in the foreground.

Cons: None so far.

Pros: This thing is pretty darn good for the money. In Planetside 2, it mostly stays over 25 in really crowded areas. In other areas it easily stays above 40 FPS which is nice, since the game isn't really optimized for AMD processors. So if it handles Planetside 2, I'm pretty sure it handles most games easily.

Cons: The fan can get pretty loud sometimes, but it does the job so that's okay.

Pros: Love it 6 cores, turbos itself to 4.1, good overclocking options if I ever do

Cons: The stock heat sink is horrible, had it on for 30 minutes and went out and bought a different one,

Other Thoughts: I committed the worse offense, I switched from intel to amd and took a little bit of time to get used to the fact that amd's like to run a little warmer, mine goes from 36 idle to about 55 under load

Pros: Decent CPU

Cons: This Vishera CPU does NOT have "large copper base with four heat pipes" as it was announced by NeweggTV in the presence of an AMD representative.

Many other reviews are also talking about its "large copper base with four heat pipes", while actually it has just primitive aluminium piece...

Pros: This CPU has a reputation as one of the best budget processors for users who need high multitasking capability, and it certainly lives up to it. With this processor, I can have iTunes playing music, Steam downloading a new game, Firefox uploading videos, and Thunderbird running, all while playing a processor-intensive game like Skyrim without so much as a slowdown.

The six cores also come in handy when running tasks like virtual machines - I can run an Ubuntu linux VM with four cores assigned to it, and still have a dual core processor left over to run tasks on my Windows 8 installation - and heavily threaded desktop applications such as 7-zip.

Cons: As with all Vishera parts, power consumption tends to be on the higher end of the scale, but depending on where you live, this may or may not be a problem.

Other Thoughts: While the stock cooler included is not completely worthless as other reviews have made it out to be, it is also just adequate for this processor. It will keep it at good temps at stock clocks only - do not try to overclock with this thing. If you wish to overclock at all, get a Hyper 212 EVO for $30 and you will get great temps out of this processor.