Great gaming performance, runs cool.
Works out of the box purchased with Amd 9600x cpu bundles ,Newegg customer services great.
Upgraded from 7600x , wanted better performance for Escape from Tarkov and this did the trick!
super fast, workhorse of a cpu while maintaining decent temperatures at idle and under load.
Walks on water. The feet don't even get wet.
- It's not AMD - Biggest pro right there! - Fast - Runs cool - In all the tests I see it appears that the 256K is the absolute best value...more below.
65w tdp, but tunable and overclockable. Running it with an AIO watercooler, runs 40-65 celsios typically. Came up immediately with a discrete graphic card. ( I was having trouble with other (similar, used, no graphics cpu , Perhaps it is a simpler initialization when the cpu has graphics? ) It is nice to have the "latest and greatest Zen 5 core., as of 2025 I dabble in performance coding / performance optimization, I wanted the full 512 bit avx512 support featured in Zen 5. This CPU is a price/performance sweet spot.
-Efficient and powerful for the price -Best entrypoint into the AM5 platform -I was scared of installation since it's my first build but it was drop in and go. Easier than I would've thought
last month i bought this cpu bundle ram,its simple install and working good
Single-Core and Multi-core performance are amazing. All other than gaming is freaking fast.
Not expensive as it was half year ago. Affordable. Running cool and smooth.
- Powerful - Fast - Easy install
-Fast -Great OC capability -Great synergy with AMD products
- Unlocked K-Series chips are good fun if you want to mess around with your computer. - You can manually set up something that works like Turbo 3.0 and TVB, which are present on the high-end SKUs but not this one, if you use the correct BIOS options. Just requires more work to identify the strong vs weak cores, and an understanding of your cooling limits. - Getting the integrated GPU is great for expanded utility down the road, even if you don't need it today. My i7-4770K will get repurposed into a NAS and the IGP will be super nice for working with that system. - It has Raptor in the name. - The example I got seems to be a decent bin. 5.7GHz all-core at 1.3V or so, some cores will do 6GHz at 1.354V. Stable so far through a significant reliability gauntlet, including Prime95, OCCT core cycling, YCruncher, Linpack, and much more. I'm sure there's more headroom but I settled on something well within the limits for daily usage. - More manageable TDP (181W) versus the high 253W TDP on the i7 and i9. - Can achieve single threaded performance as good as the top SKUs with some work.
This cpu paired with 4060 can run anything with frames over the 200 range no shutter no slow down. With new high profile games. I can honestly see no point in buying the x3d chips when this does everything gaming wise!
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Works great and was an easy install on my present motherboard just remove the old one and install the new one and reboot to give an added 4 gigahertz of speed.
Very easy to install and tons of speed, very satisfied with this product.
- Within a few fps of a 12900k on most games and saving over $100 ain't bad - So much difference for my 11700K. Made it feel like I jumped 5 years - Can overclock very easily if you're into that - It's a beast
Good amount of cores, threads, and they're decently fast. Got it paired witha 3070 ti. I would recommend paring this cpu from 2080 ti, 3070, 3070 ti, 3080, 3080 ti, 3090, 3090 ti. I could run virtual machine(with 8 cores lol) with no difficulty. Windows 10 is fine for me. In task manager i could see the e cores running discord, steam, and opera without actually running on my p cores.
I do not play games on my computers, I use them to develop software and create/edit audio and video. Currently, that makes this CPU significant overkill for my needs. However, I only build myself a new workstation every 7-10 years so I need something that will still be capable for me a decade down the road. Intel makes great products and I expect to have years of use from this CPU.