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First, a little background -- I hadn't upgraded machines in a while. My AMD Phenom II with six cores was more than showing its age. But I have a stack of servers running dual Xeon 16 core CPUs that I can use to compare this chip. Quite simply, it leaves them in the dust. Compressing an hour of high-def video to HEVC on the Phenom was a painful 6-7 hour process; on the Xeon's, it took 2 hours. On this chip, it takes under 20 minutes. I can go from POST beep to login screen in 5 seconds. It's so fast it's scary, and that's with only some old 2133 memory. I'll be grabbing some 3600+ memory at some point and seeing if it improves more. For now, I'm enjoying running compiles that used to take 10 minutes in under 20 seconds. Highly satisfied.