Reviewers Liked
- Excellent performance
- M.2 and SATA Express storage support
- Additional cores for future-proofing
- Enough PCIe lanes for three-card SLI/CrossFire and a PCIe 3.0-based SSD
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Not compatible with previous-gen LGA 2011 motherboards
- Stock-clocked performance limited by 3.6GHz maximum speed
- Not all software can take advantage of eight cores