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Pros

If you turn on intel side step (throttling) mode, the stock cooler is sufficient. With the big shuriken 3, temperatures rarely go over 70c, so there is a big difference. Temp is constant 50 plus or minus with an average water cooler.

It's built for home pc users. I find it to the best balance price/performance for anyone that is working with hp, lenovo or dell prebuilts and doesn't want to custom build and overclock. The gaming motherboard i purchased allows it to stay boosted to ...  Read More

It keeps chugging. Intel always has a way more refined feel to it, graceful.

For these generation of boards, which are now obsolete, this is the best buy in this scenario. Even if it's about 2 generations behind, it's still a great cpu. Good upgrade from an amd quad core phenom machine.

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Quality


With the right motherboard you get a consistent and stable 5


With the big shuriken 3 temperatures rarely go over 70c so there is a big difference


I figure i’ll upgrade my gtx1070 to something more recent to pair with the i7 9th gen


I bought the i7 9700f to upgrade the stock i5 9400f and i am extremely pleased with the performance bump you are looking at abo...  Read More

Price


For a top of the line cpu the price is right and wont break the bank

Competitiveness


I’m using a 1440p monitor and everything is stunning


You have to update your bios if you have a mobo older than the z390 boards by using an 8th generation coffee lake chip which in...  Read More

Overview

  • How are reviewers describing this item?
    great, good, stock and still.
  • Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
  • Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 79.7% of the reviews are reliable.
  • This product had a total of 1,069 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jul 26 2022.

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    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    I didnt like that i could not use the fan it came with i7 that does not fit in


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Everyone everyone look at the pics


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Everything looks epic and it all by random is x


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Installed onto my z390 board with no issues very easy and works amazing huge performance upgrade from my i3 7100 the clock speed is base 3


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Even if the game is cpu heavy it doesnt bottleneck much at all


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    Im excited to push it to the limits of new games and i feel like i am only getting started on its capability


    Posted by a reviewer on Amazon

    If you do not have a motherboard that does not allow overclock you are wasting your money

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