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Quality
For the money i paid im happy with the results
Works perfectly extremely pleased with this product
This leaves you with the same 2 cores afterward unfortunately i have not seen any mention of overclocking being possible after ... Read More
If you have the money for a higher quality processor i would recommend going with that
Price
Not to mention the price is competitive and enjoy the fact that a cooler fan is included
It works very well for its 70 price
Shipping
Great processor but came in 5 days with 2 day shipping
There are a few generous souls who have posted links to unlocked bios versions that support overclocking across multiple chipse... Read More
Competitiveness
Overclocks very easily and runs cooler than other 1150 socket cpus
Great little chip for learning about overclocks and running less cpu intensive games
I cant tell the difference between a 2600k oc and this
Its extremely easy to overclock too on a z97 asrock anniverssary mobo any z97 mobo works great
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great, good, stock, able and new. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there is minimal deception involved.
- Our engine has discovered that over 90% high quality reviews are present.
- This product had a total of 626 reviews as of our last analysis date on Jun 3 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I was able to get a max over clock of 4
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Does the job well dont buy it if youre no overclocking it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The only gripe to have about this cpu for gaming is that it hithces and stutters very bad on most open world games running at 60fps as a result of only having 2 cores with no hyperthreading
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
For example running gta v on a gtx 960 at 1080p 60 fps causes the cpu to freeze every 5 seconds consistently but capping it at 30 fps fixes the problem
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The witcher 3 performs a little worse as even turning down the resolution to 720p and capping it at 30fps couldnt stop the hitching
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The gpu to pair with this card would be a gtx 750 ti a gtx 950 or a gtx 960 would be the max before the cpu starts bottlenecking them
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I also built this in may 2016 so if anyone is worried about this being an older generation dont be
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Unfortunately it only really goes headtohead against midrange core i3 cpus due to only having 2 logical cores
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