came in good packaging and functioned as advertised.
- Fast enough for gaming - Good price point
- You can overclock it on certain motherboards (at least two ROG STRIX B-660 and two STRIX Z690 boards I know of), which I've done on a B-660G, but I don't recommend it. - Performance with all cores synced and boosted is amazing, w/o overly sacrificing temps or fan noise. - A 240mm AIO will keep CPU package temps at less than 40C during light loads and 60C or less while gaming at 4K. - Efficiency cores can be disabled in bios (motherboard dependent), if needed. - Changed Windows Power Plan to power save, which set p-cores to 1.4 GHz, but e-cores could still max boost. Played a game at 4K on e-cores with only a 10% fps loss (it'll be a much larger loss at 1080).
I will definitely recommend this here cpu by intel especially for anyone who is looking to upgrade they older system that have 8 gens or even older intel socket or just looking to switch form amd.
Purchased 30 Nov 2024. I haven't touched the full capabilities of this CPU, but it's pretty beefy.
If you need a new video card and don't want to pay over msrp for it then this ryzen 5 5600g will do the trick runs games really well.
Beautiful. Easily runs at 4.7GHz.
Good processor with added aftermarket fan.
Perfect CPU for upgrading to 11th Gen
This thing is fast and runs cool
The Price is spot on and couldn't resist buying it. Runs awesome on my new gaming rig.
I have this in the k on sell for 329.$ new 3 years ago very fast.