
CPU is great, very efficient with wattage, really great 1% lows in gaming, doesn't matter what resolution you will benefit from this with making motion in games a lot smoother. Good budget CPU.

Goes on sale a lot

Fast, cheap, low power, great value!

Fastest in the world

Decent gaming performance at stock, performs notably better than my overclocked 7700x Excellent overclocking performance, gets similar gaming performance to my 7800x3D after tuning ram (running DDR5 8000 with manually tuned timings) and overclocking the cores, D2D, NGU, and Ring Ridiculous multithreading, it's an ultra 9 285k in all but name. in many cases it's faster due to the increase uncore clocks at stock. Absolutely shreds my rendering workloads. no Price, $300 is midrange tier pricing in the big 2026 unfortunately. But this CPU is very clearly very high end.

Definitely one of the best gaming CPU out there.

it is fast and easily overclockable. high temperature tolerance. handles AAA game titles without bottlenecking

the RGB fan is awesome. very happy with the light design. size is not too big.

Respectable base clock rate Low operation temp. under heavy loads Easy install Excellent single core performance

Best CPU for both gaming and productivity so far. Definitely a very good upgrade from a 13th Gen Intel i9 that had instability issues. Doesn't get so hot when multitasking. This thing is fast

Just surprised how good this actually is. Gaming has been great. Using 212 cooler master, stays under 70c with lower fan profile speed.

I know its not for gaming but boy it downloads fast, and has the ability to do anything k need in a snappy manner.

Not expensive as it was half year ago. Affordable. Running cool and smooth.

Fast CPU with a ton of power for the price.


- It's not AMD - Biggest pro right there! - Fast - Runs cool - In all the tests I see it appears that the 256K is the absolute best value...more below.

super fast

This doubles my multi thread rating. BF6 loads me in to maps much faster. If I encode more DVD Movies it will not take nearly as long. Planning to wait a couple of years before replacing the mobo, CPU, and RAM in my computer. RAM prices are out of control. Waiting for them to come back down.


This thing is flawless and fast. I have a 12900k so this does feel a little bit of an improvement. The difference to me is that it goes through applications and games a little more efficiently and smoother. I like it. For the price on sale compared to previous generations it's a good bargain. No integrated graphics which is awesome for me.