
Great CPU and Im now GPU bound

It's a budget performance champ

Overall great thermal paste

Solid performance

Upgraded to this from a Ryzen 5 2600 and let me tell you the difference is incredible. I have this in an Aorus build with a B450M and 1080 ti Extreme. Running with this processor has breathed new life into the 1080 ti at 1440p. Almost every game runs maxed out with at least 60FPS. Noticed substantial increases in Cyberpunk 2077 and Horizon Zero Dawn.

Worked with Gigabyte X870E out of the box, memory training was quick on first boot, performing above expectations.

Keeps all but the most demanding CPUs cool. If you aren't big on OCing, this is a solid option for getting your rig together. Ample documentation. Even a tube of thermal grease if you didn't have any.

Smooth, cool running and powerful CPU Good value at 399.00


Product was easy to install. Made an absolute difference in my machines performance.

Great price in combo, very fast in windows applications, for me great in games as well. 200s boost for some extra power.


This review is from a senior citizen builder who had not built a computer since 8 years ago! I was reading some of the reviews after I built this unit and was interested in finding a way to load this chip up since normal computer use was using minimum core usage. I found Cinebench R23.200, a video rendering CPU tester with ratings listed compared to other chips after your test is complete. Cinebench was not immediately easy as a download since it needed to be extracted and a ddl file was necessary to open in order to open it properly. A bit after that it was smooth sailing. The result is listed above in the photo. The test loads the temperature parameters to the max so you better have excellent water cooling with a 3 fans radiator. The CPU percentage ran at 100% for the first 5 minutes of the ten minute test, then it would throttle a bit. The first time I ran it, I stopped it after the time limit stopped but it was still running and exited the program, so I never got a number although it listed in 1st place. The second time I let it run after the timer stopped for about a couple minutes and it finished on it's own and gave be the above number confirming what I thought happened the first test. I stopped gaming after Beyond Earth stopped working in windows 10 along with all my Microsoft Flight programs. Planned obsolescence !

I wanted a dark build and this fit right in. Does everything it's supposed to, nice cpu cooler.

Ela /ty for 32 gb ram :)

Simple install, keeps temps right.


24 cores at this price in unreal. The other guys give you 6 and 8 cores for this price lol. Boots fast, and breezes through everything I throw at it without a hitch. Gaming and multi tasking are a dream. CPU runs very cool despite being a multicore beast. Compatible with my older AIO, no need for any adapters, just worked. New Intel APO and IBT features are cool, but hope they support them long term. Overclocks really, really well. I am running at E cores at 5.1Ghz, P cores at 5.6Ghz and D2D at 4.0Ghz, Cache at 4.1GHz, and NGU at 3.4Ghz. These are well above stock, and it has zero issues. Tuned my DRAM to 8667 CL38 and get huge bandwidth and low latency now.

- Easy to apply method - Great heat conductivity from CPU to Heat-sink - Eco-friendly packaging

- value to money is high - fast and handles all games and tasks