*Unlikely able to overclock to a really serious degree (not a K version) But to my surprise, the combination of this processor, my motherboard, and memory (Asus Z170-A 2 x 8GB sticks Crucial DDR4 2133 memory) the easy overclocking settings were able to achieve a very stable 15% overclock.Ĭons: I know what I was (and was not) buying, so while these might be considered cons I knew I was not willing to pay for them in this build. I have no real need to overclock, so I did not count on that. This processor meets this desire at a reasonable price point. Pros: Given my computing needs for this build, I wanted a reasonably fast, modern quad-core processor (some applications I use are fairly single-threaded some are multi-threaded and I run at least one VM along with these programs).
