
Hello fellow gamers! I normally am a bit reserved when it comes to cpu's but I have been watching this cpu pricing and when I was able to finally get this beast in a combo deal I was all in for the deal! It runs very consistent and fast! I play a lot of high demanding games and stream using just the one rig. And it handles it all with no problems and the cpu actually stay relativity cool under heavy load. Great product and reliable

I bought this CPU as a part for a PC i built for my brother and its the best decision i made. - Runs cool and efficiently - Games run perfectly at 1440p for him matched with a 6700 XT GPU, frame rates over 200 on select titles. - No complains.


It's incredibly fast for my use and multi-thread is fantastic. I can render videos, run applications in the background, and browse at the same time and see no drop in performance! A better cooler is recommended but is not critically hot when running at max capacity. Efficient at 65w TDP CPU fan included.

Been using this CPU for a month now, seated in an ASUS Crosshair X670E Hero motherboard with G Skill DDR5 6000 CL30 AMD EXPO 32GB memory and a Radeon 6950XT GPU. As reviews state when fully stressed CPU will hit 95C with boost clock 5.2-5.85GHz adjusted accordingly in synthetic benchmarks. However in real world applications I commonly see 6.3GHz on 12 of my 16 cores when gaming or video encoding running max at 84C cooled by a Cooler Master ML360 AIO.

-Runs much cooler than previous x299 CPU iterations -Has much more overclocking headroom at lower voltages. -14 cores

It is miles above my old i7-4790k! I mistakenly paired it with a RX-6600xt. It works perfectly, but GPU is running at 99%, CPU is around 15% It could use a RX-6700xt, or RTX 4060, or even the new Arc b580. But, no complaints, it plays Halo infinite just fine, so I am happy. So much so, I built 2 more!

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.
