

Runs everything on roblox Minecraft at max graphics on hypixel. A dream even with a lot of people in skyblock Repo is fantastic Jurassic world evolution at medium is good u notice a tiny bit of lag but it's not horribly noticeable anything higher is runnable but you'll notice it

budget friendly , but good and includes graphics

Great Processer for a build that has a good video card !!!

It has amazing CPU performance. Multithreads apps like Cinenbench love it. It can get on my system without Overclock around 24k points on Cinebench R23. I saw a huge increase on frame rates coming from 12600 non k cpu on my system. Windows 11 boot time is amazing, super-fast on my old nvme. It is much faster. Also, games like Forza Horizon 5 loads much much faster with it.

it overclocks

I was lucky winner first to get this CPU and then find out that it runs 5Ghz + without effort on air cooling ...Got all my components on Newegg and could not be happier... easy instal and no trouble at all installing software playing games or editing video is a breeze



I have both, but in different boards; i read a review that said the hyperthreading only counts in certain games, and since I run a dx-11 title on my surround view rig, i can't notice any disadvantage, nor a boost when playing american truck driver. the one thing i have noticed, is it's currently a lot cheaper than my 3600, lol! but seriously folks; I've run a few hundred hrs with this proc, using an msi r-9 290, a gigabyte wind force gtx 1650 o.c; and an asus rtx 5050 o.c. without a single hitch! i love the new 5050 by the way; i removed the plastic back plate, and re-installed the screws, to use the shroud as the support plate, so i could set a 92mm 4-pin fan over the pcb (dart tips fit the mounting holes, and are trimable for height) and it runs 5760 x 1080p at about 60% load, and 120 degrees F.... (44 fps and full eye candy) i'm on an asrock b550 phantom 4; 16gb timtec 16-18-18-38 3200mhz; a 40" tv, with two 32" viewsonics for the side windows, and it rocks! i'm old school; i built my first rig in 1995, and i never overclock, i just upgrade to go faster, lol! my bragging rights come from the years i can squeeze out of the cash i paid; i have 20 motherboards; an abit ax5 with a 100 mhz dx4, and perfect caps after 30 years. i have a foxconn destroyer, an asrock 990fx fatalty killer, an asrock z590 steel legend atx's all. a pair of zotac 780 gtx's amped editions with full solid copper water blocks, a gigabyte ud5 with an i7 core / and 8 x 4 gb sticks quad channel ddr3 patriot 1866 mhz copper aluminum spreaders with copper bars inside..................................... an original foxconn 8800 gtx i purchased the day it was released

Fast, cool, power efficient chip that matches previous generation i9 performance, in flight simulator and a bunch of demanding games, for $100s less. Coupled with MSI MAG Mortar WiFi DDR4, 1TB Samsung 980 Pro (a key ingredient in the recipe/outcome I think), 4x8GB Corsair Vengeance DDR-2133/3200, Noctua-SE-224-XT (excellent cooler and another $$ bargain), and Gigabyte RTX 3060 12GB. I've been building rigs for flight simulator for 20 years but haven't done one since 2012. It went like this; new FS title released so of course you need a new build. Not rich, nor poor so had to meet in middle-to-higher tier equipment. A year or two later better equipment available at lower prices so you upgrade components and/or new build. Then new FS title comes out; wash, rinse, repeat. FSX had maxed out for me and so it fell to the wayside. I'd occasionally fire it up for a Saturday or Sunday afternoon. With FS2020 introduction I decided to wait a bit for all the bugs/patches (thank all you FS2020 test/guinea pigs!) and also wanted to do a budget build since the PC is really only used for this. Spent an entire weekend looking at reviews/tests of the i5 with Flight Simulator in particular, and a lot of other "latest, demanding" games. It is a Bargain Beast, particularly with titles that are more single thread dependent, which quite a few still are. FS 2020 scanned the system and recommended Ultra settings. With no FS tweaks and memory running at 2133, I was getting 30 fps departing London City, 40s down the Thames, and dip back 30 flying directly over Heathrow. On the low end of what you want, but totally acceptable/flyable. Smooth as glass. BIOS with XMP update was required to run memory at 3200, and after that the frames jumped to 40s as the base in dense/busy areas, and it's 60 fps everywhere else. CPU combined with rest of system has FS 2020 covered very well. The Samsung Pro 980 is doing 6937 MB/s sequential read and 5208 MB/s sequential write. Compare to a standard WD Blue SSD where maybe you're getting 450-500 MB/s. Absolutely nothing wrong with that drive I use them all the time, but we're talking 13 times faster so I wouldn't go less with M.2 for FS/gaming. Temps 32C idle, `55-60 at the most, under heavy load. Can't even hear the fan on the Noctua cooler. Spent a good deal of time researching this build and imagined it would do well, but it exceeded my expectations. I've never played CyberPunk but they say it's the latest, greatest demanding title. Check out this chip's performance against much more expensive and higher TDP ones in games like that. NewEgg got it, along with motherboard, to me very quickly and I couldn't be happier with the purchase.


Seems to be running well and not too hot and intergraded graphics are working.

- It exceeded my expectations when compared to my i9-14900k. I get more FPS and lower wattage! an Amazing Combo



If you are looking for the best performance on a budget, this is your chip. I built two systems with similar hardware except for the CPU - one with this and the other with a core 7 265. I can't tell a difference in Star Citizen, one of the most demanding games on a CPU.

Easily installed on a new MSI motherboard with stock fan. Recognized in BIOS and simply works


fast cheap