
This was my first AMD build - giving up on Intel! After looking at the options for another purpose-built machine for MS Flight Sim (my previous was an i9-9900K which worked decently), this cpu seemed the obvious choice both from a performance and availability perspective. I paired it with an MSI MAG X870e mobo and BeQuiet Dark Rock Pro 5 cooler, and for now, an RTX 4070ti GPU (until sanity returns to the GPU market).

Relatively cheap, runs cool, latest Zen architecture, games


-Easy to install -Can handle 6000cl28 RAM easily -Easy to use BIOS


Fastest in the world

This review is for the MSI Review Rebate Program *Many USB 10GB ports to support home media server *Comes with 2 Ethernet ports, a 2.5GB and a 5GB *Wi-Fi 7 is also included *3 easy accessible NVME slots with heat sinks included *I love the beautiful Dragon LED RGB display

Cables are flexible and easy to install.

came with all the stuff you need, clean and proper, no bent pints and a nice set of stickers and a keychain. wifi adapter. lovely board to buy

Stable power supply for CPU and RAM overlock

Won't run.

I have two different brand motherboards and each was able to recognize and utilize the full speed of this memory with zero issues.

MSI products have always worked well for me and this motherboard is great just like the others I have used for my builds in the past.

Multiple fan headers and upgradeable over the 450 I was previously looking at

- Gorgeous board for an all white build - Easy to install design - Lots of features

Decent gaming performance at stock, performs notably better than my overclocked 7700x Excellent overclocking performance, gets similar gaming performance to my 7800x3D after tuning ram (running DDR5 8000 with manually tuned timings) and overclocking the cores, D2D, NGU, and Ring Ridiculous multithreading, it's an ultra 9 285k in all but name. in many cases it's faster due to the increase uncore clocks at stock. Absolutely shreds my rendering workloads. no Price, $300 is midrange tier pricing in the big 2026 unfortunately. But this CPU is very clearly very high end.

Easy to install Easy to increase clock speed


First off its a $100 motherboard with a big heatsink, BT 5.3, PCIe 5.0, two 4.0 m.2 slots, comes preloaded with WiFi and BT drivers

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