Pros: It worked and did not break.

Cons: Could not play some video games without 80% usage and loud fans. Sometimes would struggle with streaming and multitasking. Never could use turbo setting.

Other Thoughts: I upgraded to a i7 5960k and I'm very happy now. Intel is the best.

Pros: Works as expected had the fan on it before switching to water stays cool under pressure for hours.
This is your bang for the buck.
Currently have it pushing 3.7ghz at like 37c to 43c could probably push it farther.
Runs games on max settings with no struggle.

Cons: None, this processor has been working with no problems no crashes for 2+ years

Other Thoughts: Unless you can afford one better get this.
Intel or bust my friends.

Pros: I must have gotten a good one. This Processor can be overclocked by at least 9% with stock cooler, with an Asus Z97 Pro Motherboard. If you believe Passmark Benchmark result's I scored 11,086 with this i7-4771

Cons: none

Pros: Upgraded from an i5-760 to this, and even though the i5 aged well and was a surprisingly zippy little thing, this processor put it to shame. It chews up and spits out everything I throw at it from 3D Modeling/CAD stuff to heavy gaming to video rendering.

Cons: NOT OVERCLOCKABLE - This isn't really a con, but I've seen a few people complain about not being able to overclock this (even though with turbo boost you can get it to 3.9GHz). If you want to overclock, snag the 4770k.

Other Thoughts: Even with an AIO cooler my temps still lean a little higher than I would like, but I just chalk that up to losing the silicon lottery. Will probably continue to purchase Intel processors until the end of time lol.

Pros: Pretty fresh CPU. Upgraded with this from a Core Two Duo and boy this sure does the job. Fast and good multitasking processor that lets me play games and stream high quality video.

Cons: Nothing so far. At all.

Other Thoughts: Still haven't even tried to overclock but don't see much need to.

Pros: Fast gets the job done

Cons: Not too much bad I can say

Pros: Amazingly powerful, even after having it in for only a little bit I can see a night-and-day difference compared to what I used to have (Q6600 quad @ 2.4GHz). Renders videos so much faster and my FPS in games is a lot faster, even with the same graphics card.

Cons: The stock heatsink it comes with will not keep it cool whatsoever, it's literally the same exact one you get in the Core 2 Duos and such. Get a separate one if you're going to buy this processor.

Pros: Purchased this just to use for a small vm machine which is why I chose this over the 4770k which could be run at faster clock speeds but I needed full vitalization support, price is not bad at all for the performance of this processor.

Runs pretty cool under high loading with a H100i and upgraded pwm fans.

Cons: none

Pros: Just buy it, it's worth it. The cpu boots almost immediately with a ssd.

Cons: none

Other Thoughts: The i7 is a real champ

Pros: - Very powerful processor
- Runs very efficiently
- Stable

What can you say? It's an Intel processor, and Intel is building good stuff these days. Powerful, efficient and stable, that's what you want out of a chip. Also, the surrounding ecosystem, chipsets/drivers, are also very mature and stable. This chip (or any Heswell chip) is a great platform to build a system from.

Cons: - The supplied cooler is not sufficient

The supplied cooler is not sufficient to keep the processor within a reasonable thermal envelop at full utilization. A stock cooler should be able to keep a stock CPU out of the 176F/80C range (chip instability starts in the ~90C range) at room temperature (75F/24C) in a well ventilated case, however, during my testing the CPU got up to 214F/101C! This is completely unacceptable, and it is negligent on the behalf of Intel to supply a cooler that isn't adequate to fully support the product it's included with. It would be better for Intel to not provide a cooler at all, than to provide one the customer believes is adequate when it is in fact not. For this reason I'm taking more than just one star, as this oversight could damage your CPU if not corrected. Shame on you Intel, shame!

Other Thoughts: As I said above, the Haswell platform is great, and it stands as an example of chip engineering at its finest, and if I was only rating the processor I'd give it five stars. (My system idles at 26 watts at the wall!) However, the product is not only the processor, it's the supplied cooler as well, and it's not just that the cooler is bad, it's that it is completely outrageous for a company of Intel's stature to provide an included cooling solution which blatantly places the product it's meant to protect at risk. I'm utterly disgusted!