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5.0 out of 5 starsWOW!!! All I can say is WOW
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2020
I'm not sure why this CPU is dropping in price and playing second fiddle to the new Ryzen 3700's because this thing is a MONSTER. The only issues I have are that some of my programs are not multi-core designed so in my older version of After Effects, it's like I'm running a Celeron or something. But that's not this CPU's fault. It's has way more power than what you need for gaming. But I use it for video editing.
When I started editing videos back in the Pentium 4 days, it would take 2-4 X's the length of the video to encode an SD video to a DVD. So a 1 hour video would take between 2-4 hours. This CPU takes a 1 hour SD video and spits it out in the same DVD format in a little over 5 minutes (CPU usage is usually only 60% during this process). My 2011 Quad Core W/ HT i7 will take 30 minutes for the same process. I know that is an extreme example, but it is consistent (an old P4 will never have messed with HD or 4K, so we're keeping things consistent). And since the CPU is only using 60% while it's encoding, I no longer have to leave the computer overnight to do its thing. Rather, I can put one video on encode and then pull up another one and do some editing and it doesn't slow things down AT ALL!!! I'm telling you, if you do heaving multitasking and video editing, you NEED this CPU. For the $$$, it is the BEST performance you will find. Obviously don't sink this thing with dumb crap like too little RAM or with anything less than an NVMe drive. And make sure you use a proper GPU. And BTW, I have not O/C'd this chip. It's totally stock with a Noctua fan on it. This fan is the best option as others have tested water on it and it doesn't seem to be right for this chip. Find the Noctua cooler/fan combo that fits this chip. It has a large enough base for the girth this chip brings to your bed.
