IntelCore Ultra 7 Desktop Processor 265KF - 20 cores (8 P-cores + 12 E-cores) up to 5.5 GHz

This is a good CPU. It is very smooth with gaming and workloads, stays cool, awesome value for the money, and it boots up within seconds for BIOS post, no complications to install and very easy. It is really a champion for stability in working professional applications and is stable with drivers.

Best price and performance.

This has been far outperforming my i5 12600k and i am overall happy especially the price.Why did you pick this product vs others?:Team blue here Value for money:for the price its a great all rounderFunctionality:has performed flawless so farCooling:Runs slightly warmer than my 12600k but i think thats by design and it never gets over 47 degrees celcius while gamingStability:no issues with stability so far ,but i am running at stock

I purchased this for a Client build heavy into Adobe Suite. It has been performing as expected with no lag on all fronts and stays cool as well. It was a huge upgrade for her and she is loving it. I recommend this for anyone who is looking for performance at a reasonable cost.

This is quite the beast of a cpu. Also I had no issues with building this pc vs last year when I tried to build a 14700kf rig. Needless to say I couldn’t get it to even load the bios endless memory issues regardless of the ram I used unless I went with small sticks which I wasn’t about to run another 32gb rig. My i7 3770kf ran 32gb and never had these issues. Long story short the cpu/chipset and bios don’t have all the crap issues I found with 12-14th gen’s and yes I even ordered a cheap i5 12500k or whatever just to try and bypass the issues and update bios but even that wouldn’t do it with three ram brands and two cpus on a x870 chipset asus tuf mb. Well I use gigabyte aorus wifi7 mb and 2 48gb of crucial ram with room to add two more. It’s a beast cpu and only issue I had was installing windows 11 since I had all my drives hooked up and found out it will split the OS partitions on other drives and break the install. Anyway I’d say I gained around 35-40% boot speed for loading the OS with my main drive being a m2 ssd. The bios is the only thing I see slowing the cold boot down to pretty much the same as my 3770kf build with a ssd. But that isn’t a issue loads stuff a lot faster. I highly suggest spending the money to just upgrade to this cpu vs trying to save a little with a 12th-14th gen i5/7. I’m pretty sure they got the i5 version of the ultra to just use my pc for more then just gaming. Audio production and recording ect. So I wanted a beast that I wouldn’t need to upgrade for another 10-12 years like my last one.

Works fast, new npu tech is exciting. Thermals and power is down.

I compared this to my AM-5 8500 system (that cost only 1 half the price) and the AM-5 system is faster. Also I find that this Intel system is buggy and fails to boot. Forcing me to re-install windows every few days. I finally gave up and quit using it.

Works as expected, but not much better than Gen 14 CPUs. Maybe spend $200 more and get the 285 version if you need more performance?? I expect this is the end of the line for Intel using this traditional CPU design (Mac M is taking over)