Great Processor, for the money best in class

Good product, If you are looking for a strong amount of multitasking and multithreading this is the processor for you. If you are trying to decide between the Intel and amd processor's and chips. I will say that overall the i5 is better for gaming however for applications, and for general start up and multitasking this processor takes the i5 easily. If you do purchase this fine processor, make sure that you change out the heat sink. The one that it comes with feels cheap and while the copper piping makes it look cool i wouldn't say that it is effective, at cooling or sound reduction.. For the techies, I was able to compress 8GB of files into 6GB of files in around 2 minutes. In comparison with my laptops i7 first gen with 8min's id say it is pretty good. With around 1gb of video memory (noncrossfired) its pulling well over 100fps on league of legends. This will be an excellent edition to any PC and with overclocking boosting even great performance.. Make sure you have water cooling!Read full review