I realize that a pc picture for a processor is pointless and just showing off, but isn't everyone who gets this showing off a little lol. Anyway, the title says it all, a beast. I've been intel all my life, though to be fair I havent had many computers, but still, i was like amd who? lol. Even when amd surpassed intel with the x3d for gaming anyway I was like well whatever intel's still the goat so they can have their short victory, which is unheard of for me because if there are 2 brands that are equal or even one thats close but not quite as good, ill always go with the red one(obsessive fav color), but then am5 came out, and to be clear, i wasn't one of those fanboys who was like omg becky! amd is going to destroy intel and there's going to be nothing they can do about it. No! quite the opposite. I knew. I knew what revolutionary technology the hybrid core design was and how great raptor lake was going to be, I knew it might even surpass amd's new best unlike everyone else. Didn't matter though. Because i wanted to try changing it up and switching to team red for a variety of reasons. 1. like i said cuz its red. 2. because as great as raptor is, i dont wanna be in the cycle i was in before where if i wanna upgrade a single pc part like the processor, ill have to basically build a new pc, which is what i had to do and what youll always have to do with intel usually, but amd will have upgradability on this for years new platform and all on top of the fact that amd has always been better about keeping compatible socket types for a longer time, while obviously thats not true for raptor, and even if raptor was a new platform lets not play like am5 still wouldnt be supported way longer, because it will, hell am5 will probably be supported to the end of intels next platform lol, 3. ive never once cared about power efficiency and heat, like so what, ok it draws alotta power, BUT, as long as the performance is there(lookin at you 12900/13900) and it will not throttle and be stable, awesome, do whatever you want, why limit performance for braggin rights efficiency(i know some people will cringe reading that), but anyway, while idc about it, it is a big win all the same for amd 4. 12 cores and 24 threads of pure American Muscle (jk but you get the point lol), 5. amd has become the stability platform thanks to intels new incredible but still NEW architecture 6. you get every bonus I just said and are getting like the 3rd best consumer processor in the world right now, who cares if the 13900 is technically #1 by a few percent 7. if you want both gaming performance and workstation performance, which is the main reason i upgraded, this is the way to go, best of both worlds if 16 core 32 thread or 13900k is just a bit unnecessary for you but you still want that best of both worlds, and for that reason idc what any reviews say online about it being slightly overpriced, because for all of the reasons i listed above, i disagree 8. well this is more of a counter, but, are the motherboards pretty expensive, yes, is ddr5 expensive? yes but if your building a new pc it really doesn't matter does it because your already spending a bunch of money and you might as well pay a bit more for that amd upgradability over intel, and for those who aren't building a totally new one, assuming you don't wanna pay a bunch of money, if you do your research you can still get a good motherboard and ddr5 for pretty cheap OH AND AT THE TIME OF WRITING THIS I've been talking about the normal price, but currently the 7900 is at an INSANE DISCOUNT, LIKE CRAZY, final note: that second picture i showed was me letting hw monitor run for 30 minutes, the point is that, it does go way above 5.6 even if only in semi frequent spikes, just thought it was cool, i know practically it doesnt matter