
Installed and booted with no problems!

A significant upgrade over my 10 year old CPU. This was my first system build and the instructions were simple. Product came in great condition and is performing excellently several weeks in.

Fastest in the world

Nice processor

Decent gaming performance at stock, performs notably better than my overclocked 7700x Excellent overclocking performance, gets similar gaming performance to my 7800x3D after tuning ram (running DDR5 8000 with manually tuned timings) and overclocking the cores, D2D, NGU, and Ring Ridiculous multithreading, it's an ultra 9 285k in all but name. in many cases it's faster due to the increase uncore clocks at stock. Absolutely shreds my rendering workloads. no Price, $300 is midrange tier pricing in the big 2026 unfortunately. But this CPU is very clearly very high end.

At 4K, 100% GPU limited Low heat output compared to the 14900k, Thermalright Phantom Spirit 120 SE operates at low RPMs, CPU nowhere near thermal limits.


Fast, easy install, stable