A very capable piece of silicon. It can do everything I need it to do as far as gaming. I don't do any rendering or video editing so I can't make a comment about that. It is a very nice processor and not too pricey.

Won't take a single star from this old warrior. It has been keeping me spoiled with its power for nearly 6 years. It still has life in it for 2 or 3 more years I think. I won't need to go above i5 for my next pick as this line is sufficient for what I need.

I bought this because I wanted a system that could handle games for the next few years without a problem, and this has only been good since purchasing. It overclocks decently (i5-4690k's overclock better) and runs cool.

Best bang for your buck at the time. I am only able to overclock to 4.3ghz sadly. I guess I just got a bad luck of the draw. (4.5ghz is the average) At 4.3ghz I get the same single thread speed as a stock 4790k. No problems, I recommend!

Great CPU works great for everything I use it for which is mainly gaming. Even in 2018 it's still a capable CPU.

This thing has been chugging along for two years on a 4.2 mobo software overclock with zero issues. I hit 4.6 but it was unstable and honestly I dont feel I know enough to get it stable. Very happy with its performance so far.

It handles 4K video on YouTube with no problems, and multitasks perfectly well. Overclocked it to 4.0 GHz for now. It was given to me for free by my uncle, who didn't need it after upgrading to an i7-4790K.

I've actually never seen it at 100% usage yet, other than in stress testing. It renders quickly and all my programs are quick and responsive. I'm a bit squeamish at the idea of overclocking, so I don't know much about overclocking reliability, but OCGenie automatically set mine to 4GHz no problemo. I usually idle at 1-3% usage and it never goes over 60 or so degrees with my plain fan cooler. No problems with it at all

Great CPU works great for everything I use it for which is mainly gaming. Even in 2018 it's still a capable CPU.

Solid processor - haven't played a game that it couldn't handle alongside a GTX 770. Managed a stable 4.2GHz on a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo in a N200 case (heat stopped it from going further), going to see how it works with a AIO cooling loop soon.