
I got this item on sale, and it is an amazing upgrade for anyone with older Am4 setup. This runs significantly cooler than my 9700k, and even comes with a cooler. I did not use the included cooler, but it was a nice touch that makes the value even better.

Way more than I need

Arrived at the time it said it would, is what I purchased, and came as described

So far my system has been good, I use VMware alot and the extra cores (coming from a 5900x) help alot. I paired this with the Arctic Liquid freezer 420 aio and boost clocks are in the 5.75ghz at 70F room temp. As for paste I used Noctua's brand, I could mention temps but we all know by now it goes straight to 90c which took me some getting use to. I feel at the moment this is fast enough without ANY bios changes, maybe in the future I'll tweak it for more performance. System specs 7950x Strix 670e 4090 Ddr5 32gb 6000 cl30 ram



Amazing CPU, it does about anything I need it to do. I don't play many games but it does just fine with ATS, ETS2, FS22, GTA V, and others. From testing it seems like the CPU is no longer the bottleneck and I can upgrade the GPU again later. Easy upgrade path to i5/i7/i9 later down the road.

- Does the video transcoding I need with the internal GPU, no issues (plex)