AMD Phenom II X4 970 3.5GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Desktop Processor

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Express shipping!I use my personal computer for hardcore gaming and some UI designs using Expression Studio and Visual Studio. Really efficient in handling all the applications at once. stays cool. None

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really quickly, can play any game. fans are set to 4500RPM you have to lower it if you dont want your pc to sound like a jet.-my cpu idle is 48c max about as high as 60c.

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I have put a Corsair H70 Cooler on this and it works great, when I have my window open (computer is right in front of window) here in BC, with it being winter and all, the H70 is drawing freezing air directly from outside and cooling with it. Idle it was 3C, under full load the cpu was at 9C... Very cold, and I was able to OC to 4.2GHZ stable, ran with Prime95 for an hour with no problems. Though with window closed, Ambient Temp of 21C average, Idle was around 32C, and full load up to 44C, can only OC to 3.6GHZ stable for some reason.Also, I upgraded from an Athlon 635 at 2.9GHZ. Sadly, I didn't see much of a difference except in lower end games like source engine, which didn't matter cause I went from around 150FPS avg, to 200fps avg. Was expecting to see large performance increases in GTAIV mostly, but I only went from around 45FPS to 50FPS playing at high settings, shadows hurt my PC for some reason in this game, though it could be the GPU being a GTX260.

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with the stock cooler installed i get around 25-30c idle and gets all the way up to around 60c gaming. i haven't overclocked it yet need to get a decent heatsink. it's practically the same as the previous 965 but can overclock higher and has an extra 500mhz. i've owned both not much of a performance difference, if you have the 965 and your thinking about upgrading to this cpu it's not really worth it might as well go for a 6core. i only upgraded because i got a crazy deal for this.