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This is hard to write. I used to build nothing but AMD machines back in the tbird days. They were the plucky underdog of gaming. All was well until I bought the fx53. I had every type of problem known to exist to the point where I was calling amd and talking to technicians at multiple points. They did try to help but never replaced or refunded me either. It ran nuclear hot and eventually after two motherboards and three psu's it fried. I was only 17 and had saved up for over a year for this chip. Any other build to that point for me was cheaper than just that cpu. Never touched another AMD chip until now. Since switching to Intel I have had no issues at all, they run cool and efficient. Here's where the problem lies. Kaby lake is good but mediocre. Either skylake shouldn't have been released or it should have come with the Z270 features on it already. When I came into some scratch, I waited (not my strong suit). I wanted to believe AMD could once again topple a colossus. They have. Intel isn't going anywhere and nor should they, but it has made them sweat a little and I'm grinning the whole time. Both are amazing and loved by me, the left side of my brain loves the low tdp and numerous efficiencies. The right side of my brain loves that AMD has created a piece of sophisticated art while yelling out the window at the top of their lungs and never letting off the breaks. We need Intel's responsible conservative nature, but we also need AMD's belt fed .50BMG levels of insanity. It's not always smart to fix a problem with a sledgehammer but sometimes you actually do need one. This thing is cheap for what you're getting and only 65w tdp with eight cores and sixteen threads...It's insanity incarnate. I have it overclocked to 3.7 on the stock wraith cooler running idles at 38c and 1.185 volts. RAM is set to 2667MHz, but will soon be able to get 3200 as patches arrive. Unless you are an extreme enthusiast, just get this, so many bases are covered from heavy workloads and rendering to gaming and graphic design. There is some minor teething but most are already being fixed as I write this, it's new, there will be some tweaking required but nothing difficult. Check out level 1 tech's review as I feel they did a much better job of explaining the architecture and expectations of the new design. Ryzen is a sign of renewed competition which breeds smarter design. Thank you AMD for never giving up and showing us that underdogs can once again rise like a phoenix.