Great value for performance. Great for productivity, as in my case. Recommend.

This is an excellent CPU with a nice added boost of specs over last gen. It's very snappy and makes for an excellent mid range gaming PC or a really strong office/work PC. Runs really efficiently thanks to all the E-cores and handles about anything I can throw at it. Working great as an office CPU for my dad that I expect will last him a very long time. My only complaint is this guy will run a little hot under a sustained high load when using the included cooler. I'd try to use a better cooler if you can as it will be very beneficial to prevent thermal throttling if you hit it with high load use cases.

I recently was looking to cut some power from my home server running unraid. It sucked back 80-100W just to idle with “low power” xeons from ~2010. I swapped it out with this CPU and a MSI B660m Mortar which now idles at ~30w with more threads, a higher clockspeed, and quicksync for transcoding. HUGE upgrade, very satisfied.

Such a great upper mid-tier CPU, especially when it was briefly marked down to $210. The extra efficiency cores make liife heaven for heavy work-from-homers with innumerable browsing tabs and docs open at the same time. Paired this with an RX 6700 (non XT) graphics card. My heavy content and video editing, with some gaming on the side, now runs absurdly and buttery smooth.

Excellent, efficient platform for everyday workloads!! I'd been eyeing this CPU for some time and when BestBuy had it on sale for $209 with free shipping it was a no-brainer!! This far exceeds the 10700K it replaced in both mulit-core and single-core benchmarks while running cooler and using less energy!