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I love this CPU. I bought it to "postpone" my upgrade itch from my i7-950 @4.35 Ghz (1.30v), because I don't feel anything in the recent years feels like its worth the sizeable investment at the current time - if anything, I feel I'm mostly missing motherboard features than actual performance. So, I took a risk with this side-grade really, not knowing if it would even work or was supported by my mobo (Asrock X58 Extreme, BIOS P2.90), but I just dropped it in, and it booted up just fine. Few hours later, and I managed to get a hexacore @3.91 Ghz (1.225v), and my itch is gone. In reality though, very little things have changed in terms of actual performance gains, but there's something to be said by looking at all the graphs or temperature charts for 6-12 cores/threads :). Bonus points for temperature drops due to node drop from 45nm to 32nm (from 61*C to 50*C in Prime95).Read full review
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