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A great CPU with 4 cores

This cpu is honestly a bang for the buck! Love the extra cores!

Works fast and great with 8 cores and 16 threads. Faster than my Intel 4770K 4 core CPU. Works great with my Aorus 570x ultra motherboard. Just update your motherboard firmware first from vendor website as AMD and vendor are always improving and upgrading drivers for CPU and Ram Memory. No complaints. Totally satisfied with AMD and also B&H has been awesome too with their service and delivery. Thank you AMD and B&H. :)

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.

Thank you B&H for getting this CPU to me before other retailers first and foremost. So far after several days with the 5950X, it definitely lives up to the hype and benchmarks and beats them quite frankly. It hit 5000 MHZ right out of the box on several cores, above the advertised boost which is something Zen 2 struggled with. The single core jump from Zen 2 is remarkable. It does run a few degrees warmer than my 3900X in the same build but that is to be expected with so many cores in one die so be prepared to have adequate cooling.

Are Intel CPU's more expensive than AMD? Yes. Should you buy AMD instead? Not necessarily. AMD CPU's sometimes have stability problems. Furthermore, if you use software optimized for Intel, AMD CPU's won't be much of an advantage. I use my build as a video editing PC for Premiere and Davinci Resolve. I haven't yet used Davinci since I built this computer, but w/ Premiere the CPU performs quite well. It's very fast and stays cool w/ my Noctua air cooler. So, if you want a high-performing CPU w/ lots of cores and threads, this is a good chip. But certainly you should do research on the different CPU's on the market, as AMD has released pure beasts when it comes to lots of cores. Still, I don't regret buying this Intel CPU. It performs as expected.

Impressive speed and performance of the CPU and the graphics processor. Appears with 16 cores to my OS. Almost all my software is running on one core. The rest of the 15 cores are available to rent!

This CPU has 6 P-cores and 4 E-cores. With extremely good single thread. Give the CPU good cooling with decent Z690 motherboard and it can do even more. Motherboard TVB settings and Intel Extreme Tuning Utility can unlock additional performance.

8 zen 3 cores and the latest Vega iGPU posts respectable performance at a low price. Nearly matches the 5800x in CPU performance at a fraction of the power consumption and price. The iGPU is an added bonus for either those who don't need a discrete GPU or those who are waiting for prices to come down. Personally I have it in a mini ITX system for TV use: streaming, web browsing, and light gaming. At 720P low to medium settings you can get 30 fps in most modern titles, sometimes even as high as 60 fps! Of course, older titles and less demanding titles can get 60 fps also. Definitely recommend this CPU!

I moved from Comet Lake(10700k) to Alder Lake and the performance is AMAZING! I've seen at least a 15-20% increase in CPU related performance. I am a bit of a benchmark junkie, and I have ran this CPU through its paces. From Cinebench, V-ray, PCMark10, Performance Test 10, Blender....uplift in just about every category. I use about 18 different benchmarks. I haven't had a chance to do my GPU benchmark suite yet. I've tested this cpu with different sets of ram as well. I've also tested with just the P-Cores with the E-Cores disabled. The TDP is listed at 125w, and provided you don't enable MCE(Multi Core Enhancement) it will stay withing a reasonable margin of that. I'm using a Enermax 360mm AIO, and temps are really good. I did do a quick and dirty OC on it. I ran the P-Cores all at 4.7ghz with the E-Cores at 3.7ghz with a core voltage set in the bios of 1.2v. Passed them all. This is plenty enough chip for most everyone, and considering the price, it also is a great value. I LOVE IT!