Updated review, so far so good, pulled out i5 processor, put in i7 and booted again, there was some speed increase but nothing significant, the real increase was the ability to open and run more programs at the same time , the render time seems to have improved a bit, I haven't changed anything from the defaults yet, not sure I'll change that too. For the price this is a good investment while waiting for 12 cores to drop in price a bit.

This is the right chip for my system and was easy to install. To complete the installation, I had to purchase a separate thermal compound. It worked great on my system.