Joined on 11/27/05
Awesome chip, My daily/Work Machine
Pros: Have had this since basically 2 weeks from release day! Its a great chip. OC'd to 4Ghz on all 4 cores! Temps are great w/ CM TX3. Blows through all tasks! My machine boots in 3 sec with a 60GB Kingston SSD. Love the flat IPC, way better gaming performance than Piledriver setups. Quite a move for AMD. Beat my 6800k @ 4.6 in some benchmarks (this chip running at 4Ghz). Better gaming performance too.
Cons: Doesn't OC aswell as Piledriver (but it has better IPC anyway). FGLRX for Linux (Linux Catalyst) isn't good unless you have an out-of-box linux setup. Any sort of a semi-custom setup and it probably won't work for you.
Overall Review: I use a dGPU with this on linux. This is my daily CPU. My work computer is the machine i use all day every day. Mostly its used for office applications, development applications (sublime, Chromium, Chrome, Firefox w/ Dev tools, Libreoffice).
Can't be redeemed
Pros: Nothing
Cons: Forces you to install Geforce Experience Beta version. Doesn't actually allow redemption; tells me I need to have the hardware installed (it is).
Overall Review: Wasted 2 hours of my time and can't redeem anything.
Has worked great for a year
Pros: Runs with a 7900x3D on basically 24/7 load but stays cool. VRM's are cool and power draw around 100-110W. Overall ASRock Bios allows everything to be tuned
Cons: Wish they had a cheaper version without Wifi and such
Overall Review: I know some people have issues with these boards... but I never did. Will report back if there are issues in the future but so far I have 1 year of everything working great!
Free Games
Pros: Was easy enough to verify with the software.
Cons: Sucks that you have to use Windows though. I had to boot a Windows drive to verify.
Overall Review: Overall the games are free, it adds alot of value to the CPU
Worked out of the box on 7900x3D
Pros: Good performance overall Runs cool Can Be OC'd
Cons: Not CL30 ;x
Overall Review: Hashrate in RandomX is slower because the CL on this kit is higher.
Worked great in my Dashcam
Pros: Works in my Dashcam
Cons: None
Overall Review: Hopefully it lasts a long time