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Great performance

Best and efficiency

Got it works well grate low price.

love the boost on games every thing is so smooth 1440 on high to ultra setting with a 4060 ti 16 gb card

- Better then 9950X in production - Fast in gaming beating i9 14900K

It is pretty Fast Easy to use Good gaming performance

Runs fusion 360 super well and that's with the CPU only I'm using the onboard graphics for everything. I don't even have a dedicated card.

DARE TO COMPARE . With its price and performance. I bought this together with the sapphire nitro+ Rx 7900 XTX. And sheesh the performance is really really superb. Playing ultimate settings in delta force with 250fps on a 1440p monitor.

Arrived really fast and is VERY GOOD.

I got the CPU about a week after ordering. No problems so far.

Excellent base speed with a fair bit of room to over clock

Luckily I like spending time tweaking my CPU. My benchmark scores and framerates really did not go up until I dialed in a good Core Offset, tuned the memory beyond EXPO's auto settings, turned off Core Isolation in Windows, downloaded Win 11 update KB5041587. I have not tried Win11 24H2 yet, and I am not running this with any version of Linux. Compared to my 7950x, I have way more throw with the Core offset. I can dial in a Core Offset beyond -25 with the 9950x, whereas my 7950x gets fussy when I try a CO beyond -5. The 9950x also doesn't run as hot.

- CPU Temps are lower than my previous 240mm unit - RGB is very nice once installed - Quieter than expected. Originally it was very loud, running at 100% constantly no matter what settings I adjusted to lower the fan speed. Realized I plugged my Pump Fan lead into the CPU Fan slot on my MB. Switched to the Pump Fan slot and it regulates properly now and is quiet unless I'm running a game on Ultra settings

Fast. Stable. Decent temps

I bought my tube of SIlver 5 in 2009 and just ran out of it. I've used it on PCs since then, and the temps on the 920 I first started out with are as good as the day I built it when the fans are all perfectly clean.

- Low 65W TDP - 8 Cores

Be Quiet Dark Rock 5 PRO is the BEST air cooling solution for INTEL socket 1700 and AMDs as well!!!!! IT is huge, I broke down 5 computers trying to find a case it fit in! Some of which I am parting out, and others that need to be re-assembled! I had two cases that it would fit in, and one has an 8inch fan in the side, that I didn't want to take out to make room for this huge heatsink, so that left me with an NZXT case which only fit in because the fan was lower than the heatsink! The Dark Rock 5 has a TDP of 210, which I returned for the Dark Rock 5 PRO with a TDP of 270. I am running a i9-14900k, & a i7-14700k, they both idle around 29c. Under stress test mid 50s to mid 60s. One test it "popped up" to 71-73c for very brief seconds! I get NO THROTTLING from high temp or lack of power! Currently running i9 @ 5ghz ALL CORE! The i7 4.8ghz ALL CORE, but pretty sure I can take it up to 5ghz & stay at the same temps, with a little tweaking of the AC/DC Load-Line! GERMAN ENGINEERING what more needs to be said! Most people are saying you HAVE to use a water cooler on these hot i7s & i9s, but these Dark Rocks ROCK!!!! I did use liquid metal. Those that say you have to worry about RAM clearance, I have no clue! I am running 4 sticks of Corsair Vengeance, and I have the fan as low as it will goo, and I can still fit a piece of cardboard from a notebook between the fan & RAM sticks. Keep in mind the fan is designed where it can be raised a bit. SO put the RAM clearance out of your mind! OH, and the clip on fan are no trouble at all! AND the center fan comes out easy, don't know why some of the folks make comment about that. I seated & unseated it quite a few times! For me the "CPU fan header" was the pain in my?

Got this cooler for free along with a purchase of the 9800X3D and usually I use corsair AIOs. This one is great and has kept my CPU temps down low.

fast processor, nice for gaming