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This 4-core, 4-thread CPU will overclock to around 4GHz without much effort (and without much extra voltage or extra cooling). I was running mine at 3.9GHz with the stock Stealth cooler and it was a great step up from my previous AMD Phenom 2 955 (@3.7GHz). Overall this is a good modern 4-core CPU and per core it will run as fast, or faster than the bigger brothers in the Ryzen range. The caveat is that when buying secondhand, you can get an R5 1600X (6-core, 12-thread) for only a little more and that will stomp all over this in certain applications that can use more than the 4 threads (eg. video encoding). If your budget will only run to this CPU then my advice would be to buy it and use it as a placeholder until you can afford an R5 or R7 CPU. Then if you want more performance you will be able to upgrade just the CPU, as everything else will already be in place. Ryzen's respond well to increased RAM speed, so pair this with the fastest that you can afford (and overclock the RAM too if you can).Read full review
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A good reasonably fast brand new CPU at a really good price, just the thing for my main desktop machine.
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I picked one of these up as a "test" CPU for my new Ryzen build and wow great first impression, it is a plucky little beast, my motherboards bios automatically upped the base core to 3.7 and it would turbo to 3.9. No doubt overclockers will get more out of it. It is a fast CPU for everyday use, I had it paired with a GTX1070 and it would play everything you threw at it in 1920x1080. If you are just a gamer then you can not go wrong.
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Item was perfectly described and works as should. Amazing.
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