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Pros & Cons
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 ab... Read More
Price
For a top of the line cpu, the price is right and won't 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 i... Read More
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- 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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I didnt like that i could not use the fan it came with i7 that does not fit in
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Everyone everyone look at the pics
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Everything looks epic and it all by random is x
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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
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Even if the game is cpu heavy it doesnt bottleneck much at all
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Im excited to push it to the limits of new games and i feel like i am only getting started on its capability
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If you do not have a motherboard that does not allow overclock you are wasting your money
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