Paired with a cooler this thing clocks very cool, and runs snappy. Coming from the 7700k, running a 3080 Suprim X, and running benchmark test, it finally seemed that my cpu was bottlenecking my GPU causing problems from what I was expecting. After upgrading to the 10850k and running the benchmark without clocking at all, performance was night and day almost marked 10k higher. Very good buy. I paid $399 for the chip, and compared to other comparable chips these days, it’s well worth the investment.

this was made because of the shortage of i9 10900k processors with just a 100mhz drop on the clock. honestly you cant tell the difference between this and the 10900k. just as fast and overclocks smoothly.. paired with my asus rog maximus hero z490 board and i get a smooth 44% overclock with a corsair aio 360 cooler.. cant go wrong as the price keeps dropping and will continue to do so when the new 11th gen comes out. faster than you will ever need gaming.. if youre doing rendering and 3d cad go with the amd threadrippers with the higher core count, but for gaming this is still the best bang for the buck.

This cpu was a big upgrade coming from a ryzen 2600x. It does get hot, so if you get this get a 240mm liquid cooler atleast. I say get the 280mm, but I got the cappelix 100i elite and I'm at 68c on full load at 5ghz. I had to get this cpu because I didn't want to get bottlenecked because I have a 3080. With this cpu and 3080 I'm getting around 80-100 fps in cyberpunk all ultra settings with dlss on quality and rtx psycho. If you can't find a ryzen 5900x reasonably priced get this you won't be disappointed.

After waiting for some months for 10900K to be available, I was happy to see that 10850K was made available. Clocks 100 MHz lower across the board vs 10900k, miles cheaper and actually available. With also BestBuy's price match, it was a a simple decision. Performance = Super. Haven't tried OC, most likely it will stay stock for a while. Paired up with 2 x 1080TI with 128GB memory! Awesome.

Best price ive seen. Works great with my rig. Would reccomed for gamers!