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Very powerful chip even though I have undervolted the thing to a previous generation it is sitting at all core 6.0ghz on the pcores 4.6ghz on the ecores 5.1ghz on the ring ratio and its eith a -0.1 undervolt. LLC 5 and AC/DC LL calibrated she sits at 1.3v on vid/core/vcore netting a 42950k in cinnebench r23. @ max package temp of 88c and average of 70c. Gaming she never exceeds 50c anyways....this was merely a simple OC ram is also now set from 7200MT to 7800MT could possibly get 8000 if I were to try.

-L3 cache signs to me every time I play a game -Games play smoother when there's 100 characters/NPCs present in online games -The lines of code it can gobble up would make pacman jealous





- Flexibility, extremely useful when debugging to have an iGPU on hand. Gives the display port on my MOBO a use. Would recommend even with a dedicated GPU as the perf loss is a worthwhile trade for resilience (especially in the current market, where a failing GPU might literally put your PC out of commission until next year purely due to scarcity). - Great clock speeds and single/multicore performance, scales extremely well with RAM speed (though I would stick to AMD's stated max of 3200 Mhz). Even performs favorably to the Ryzen 7 3800X for performance from what I've seen! (This largely applies for gaming or non-storage intensive work) - Good performance at reasonable resolutions for most games, with good temps at a low TDP to boot. Would expect this to be a go to for any GPU-less or ultra SFF PC. - (personal opinion) AM4 pins and socket makes for easier installation/removal. Whole thing just feels engineered well. Caveat - be careful when/if you are removing a CPU heatsink.


-Easy To Install -Improved Framerate In-Games

Good price for a 8c/16t cpu was less then 176. Great single/multi thread to finish off AM4. Bios and OS says it is what it should be performance is great even with a old 4g AMD RX570 Came quick within a week.

It works! Installed it into my new pc set up without any difficulties. Booted up normally and now I just got a terrific deal.

Way more than I need

-Based on Gamer's Nexus graphs, for $265 this has great .1% lows meaning very consistent frame time consistency. -Works with my existing ASRock Z690m-ITX MB (weak VRM, still okay) Saw a 30% - 40% increase to framerates in games with any CPU bottlenecking (Baldur's Gate 3) -Undervolts (-60mv) and Powerlimits (110W) without losing performance in gaming scenarios -Able to run memory at 3600MTs with 15-21-21-39 timings thanks to a better Integrated Memory Controller (IMC) compared with my previous 12400. -avoids the 13 & 14th gen Intel potential degradation.

- Its the Gaming CPU we've been waiting 6 generations for - Finally making its first step down from 14nm to 10nm node process since 2015



PBO(Precision Boost Overdrive is crazy! I dont know if its just me (i might not run demanding programs) but i never reached even 70% cpu utilization Base speed is 3.7 GHz but cpu speed is always hovering around 3.9-4.4 without any overclocking.

Chips came as advertised and work properly
