Highlights
Quality
I tried 2 motherboards with the same result.
I realize that the intel sandy bridge series (the 2000 series) was one of the best-cooling chips intel has made and i'm not bas... Read More
Price
100% worth the price, runs all of my games better than ever before!
Would like to have a 5800x but the price is a bit high right now so that will be in the next build.
Competitiveness
So happy that this cpu has a 65w tdp and is still such a beast.
I upgraded from a ryzen 5 3600 and the difference was amazing!
After the correction of 5800x's price to 400$, the 5600x has serious competitor.
Used a ryzen 5 2600 prior to this and was averaging 140-170fps in r6 and a few other games running a 1080.
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- This product had a total of 4,204 reviews as of our last analysis date on Aug 22 2021.
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The cooler is not enough is importan to buy a better cooler
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Check your motherboards manufacturer website to find the correct bios update that will make it compatible
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you can find it at msrp it’s more than worth it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
If you want to overclock it you can but get a third party cooler and also i heard that you can barely overclock it past the max boost speed its rated for
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I got about a 20 frame bost in hoiv and other singlethreaded only games got that 20 increase
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
In general it works fine but im not a gamer and most people buying this chip will be buying it for that so this review wont help them
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Further using a cooler master 212 cooler with 2 fans it never spun them up to more than about 800 rpm and the cpu rarely got about 30 c