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5.0 out of 5 starsBest Budget CPU for Streamers
Reviewed in the United States on July 22, 2018
In my very first desktop computer, I knew I wanted to game and have dual screens so that would mean a CPU with a good amount of cores with fast single core speeds. While these aren't insane single core speeds that Intel has, they do work perfectly. If you like streaming or recording your gameplay, the multiple amount of threads and their quick processing allow you to play games without performance drops. In fact, in all the time I've had this CPU (4 months), I've never had it go above 35% during gameplay, video compressing, or gaming and recording. It has only ever gone over 35% when I decided it would be funny to run 120+ Microsoft Edge tabs on three monitors(which crashed). The stock cooler is also insanely good. I've never had it make any noticeable noise, even doing a slight overclock.
The design of the fan is decent, as I wish the AMD text amd logo would be facing upward so you can read it, instead it's placed sideways(but it's a small detail). The wiring is covered by braided plastic and it a decent length to reach most of your motherboard. The packaging is straightforward and the heatsink has preapplied thermal paste which gets mashed and spreads out past the CPU.
Good things to note:
Great multithreading speeds for multiple tasks
Overclockable
Comes with a great fan
Specs and Settings:
Gigabyte B350 Gaming 3
8GB RAM
ASUS GTX 1060
DP and HDMI ports for 1920x1080 resolutions on both monitors
