Intel Compute Stick For Gaming

It is a portable compute - you need it!

Gaming performance is great, this has no trouble keeping a 6900xt fed, but I really appreciate having all the extra compute available from a 12 core. This has been a solid solution to any workload I throw at it. Very versatile. I'd recommend it to anyone shopping at this price point.

Added this 8Gb stick to my new Dell 3671 I5 intel 2666 desktop. No problems or conflicts. Went from 1 stick dell 8mb to 2 sticks that are compatible. Now I have 16GB 's of Ram and a smile on my face!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I use my monitor for gaming. Paired with my Intel I9 1300kf and my Nvidia 4090fe. All I can say is the monitor rocks, the color and depth along with the saturation and refresh rate. I've used a lot of monitors from all the major brands and this is the best one.

Glad to see AMD can finally take on Intel on the gaming area, but for the price ($450 at the time of purchase) seems a bit expensive as 3900X 12-Core is sold at similar price.

AMD has finally convinced me to replace Intel in my main gaming rig. I've had multiple Ryzen CPUs from every generation and they had always been good for power/thermal constrained use cases, but for ultimate gaming performance Intel was ahead, sometimes by a huge margin in poorly optimized games like the Far Cry series. Now they're ahead or on par in just about every game. Every techtuber loves to say that 8 cores is enough for gaming, but I ran into situations in games like Battlefield 5, Death Stranding, and Cyberpunk 2077 where my 9900K at 5.2GHz didn't have enough multithreaded performance when combined with a 2080 Ti or 3090. No more spikes to 100% usage in 64 player BF5 matches. It's great for H.264 and H.265 encoding as well and when Zen 4 comes along and I inevitably end up upgrading I'm sure this will be a great upgrade for one of my VM hosts/Ceph nodes.

I'll start by saying I have over the years gone back and forth between AMD and Intel with whoever has the best CPU at the time for my gaming habits. This later also expanded into some stuff like video editing and streaming from time to time. Though I still use my system for gaming 95% of the time. That said I also love to build PC's and typically enjoy the higher end enthusiast builds. Because of this I have over the past 10 years been using Intel's HEDT motherboards like X79, X99 and now X299 chipsets. Currently running an X299 Asus Rampage VI Apex board I had originally purchased with an i9-7900X. Based on this I felt an easy and now cheaper upgrade to the i9-10920X CPU would be the best route. Yes there are better AMD CPU's out there right now, but Intel still does very well in the gaming performance. So since this was just a CPU swap out for me it was the best way to go I could keep everything else in my system as is. This motherboard has been rock solid and only 2 years old at this moment. I was not disappointed, this CPU works great out of the box. Has very good turbo features for those that don't know how to overclock. It will consistently run 2 cores at 4.8Ghz, 2 at 4.7Ghz, 2 or 3 at 4.6, and the rest at 4.5 down to 4.4. Using Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 software you can force older games that use typically 1 main core to use your strongest cores first for the extra speed. If the program/game has great multicore support then you have the 12 cores which really is plenty for gaming and enough for a good balance of production unless you crunch videos all day. OC wise I have only messed with it some so far but it's not hard to get this CPU to 5.0Ghz on all cores with what I am using, a Corsair H115i Pro AIO water cooler.

Great for gaming, good for productivity, sips the power. Glad i made the switch from Intel. And of course the B&H customer support is quick, reliable, friendly, and puts their customers needs first! Can’t say that about many companies these days.

Purchased this motherboard as the backbone of a new gaming rig. populated with an Intel i7-14700KF, 64GB of Corsair Dominator RAM, 4TB of Samsung M.2 storage and topped with an ASUS RTX 4070Ti graphics board. build went quickly and booted up successfully first time. This has been the result with all of the ASUS M/Bs that I have purchased for my gaming, engineering design and simulation and business applications. I do not consider other brands when I need to build another machine, no reason to switch.

I’ve been into computers my whole life and outside a brief window around the Turion x64 days Intel had ALWAYS been the leader in performance. With nearly three decades of dominance came market ubiquity. I always bought Intel because it’s what you did if you wanted the best. Inversely, this led to me developing prejudice against AMD. 2020 saw what had previously been unrealized, and AMD finally had more to show than Intel, and was still offering it at slightly lower pricing. Thus the value proposition presented by particularly the 5600x is astounding. So I made the logical choice and built my first ever AMD based system. Nothing changed, and it still booted when I hit the button. Instead I saw massive day to day speed upgrades and aside from a minor issue getting my ram to run its XMP profiles at stock voltage (which was either my mobo being cranky or the sticks themselves being subpar) the new system just worked flawlessly. It’s been almost two weeks now and I’m exclusively using the system for gaming. I can’t say I’ve experienced any strange hiccups or issues yet that I can directly attribute to the processor (on any new complete build you’re bound to have some quirks arise). Everything just works as I expect it to. The processor itself had broken a mental barrier for me, and does exactly what it claims it will on the box. Under a Kraken X63 my peak gaming temps on the chip were 63* Celsius... PEAK... with most gaming settling into the high 50s. That’s with PBO enabled, and after several hours so a fully saturated cooling loop. All cores have hit their advertised peak boost, and the most power I’ve seen the chip draw was around 83 watts. That’s a very cool and efficient chip, a sign of how much further AMD is ahead of Intel on the die processes. 7nm chips mean less power and more performance in the same package, and I see that born out in this chip. I can highly recommend the 5600x for all but the most extreme gamers. Paired with a 3080@ 2070mhz, no bottleneck!