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Highly recommended!
After graduating college I finally have a job that can afford me to build something a little nicer than a budget rig. So I splurged on this beast of a cpu and paired it with an ASUS Hero VII Z97 motherboard.
To be real with you, the last time I built a rig I had a techie friend with me who kind of babied me through it. I didn't even have half the amount of money sunk into that setup as I do this one... so doing it friendless was terrifying.
By that I mean my friend wasn't there. I have friends. I swear.
I purchased a Cooler Master Hyper Evo 212 to slap on top and make an Arctic Silver 5 sandwich. Can I just say there is something supremely horrifying about hearing the creek of a $200 motherboard as I tighten the screws on a heat sink over a $300 processor?
Luckily, I did not destroy the setup. Turns out they build this stuff to survive the clumsy hands of a novice such as myself.
I planned on overclocking this chip (or else why get the k?) but it's so darn fast right now I just don't feel motivated too. I'm enjoying a stock 4ghz hyper threaded quad-core CPU at an idle of 34-35 degrees and a load of about 60-65. Ran Prime95 and the chip would barely blip above 68 degrees.
I truly couldn't be happier with this chip. I'm sure I'll eventually get crazy and start overclocking it... but I just can't think of a practical reason to overclock a chip that is so dang fast on it's own.
Look, this is an expensive chip. But you get what you pay for with Intel. AMD is great for a budget rig, but I couldn't be happier with this purchase.
I might be eating ramen noodles for dinner for the next month (they don't pay elementary school teachers that much) but at least I'll eat ramen while enjoying my computer time that much more.
(Btw... this is unrelated. But add a dash of sriracha sauce to your ramen noodles. I was super impressed with the extra dash of flavor.)
I also built my of with this professor, not the fastest processor out there but still fast. Using games and stuff I max out 20 percent of my cpu. Which is great, the Internet browsers run flawlessly, no choppy scrolling. Runs better than any laptop by far. So if you want a faster processor buy this. It's not the best processor there's very expensive processesors. One of the most powerful supercomputers in the world can only process about 1% the human brain. So by all means this little piece of technology will never be able to compare to us but it gets the job done and that's it. I would say for 300 dollars i would have probably chosen to buy an AMD processor. All the hate there is on AMD comes from Intel fans so don't give into that and just buy whatever you can afford.