I replaced a 10-year-old Haswell Intel 4th Gen CPU / motherboard with this CPU, and it is a nice upgrade to my desktop system which I use for desktop virtualization of Windows, Linux, and BSD operating systems. I installed this CPU in an ASRock B760M PG Riptide motherboard with 2x16 = 32 GB of DDR5 memory. The UHD 770 integrated graphics on the CPU works fine for streaming HD videos, even in virtualized environments with GPU passthrough. The UHD 770 graphics is reported to also be suitable for some light video editing or gaming, but for serious video editing and gaming you will probably need a dedicated GPU.
Everything is working as expected after installation with both Linux and Windows. The ASRock B760M with this CPU works very well with a recent Linux 6.9.11 kernel out of the box. I did not test it using older LTS Linux kernels 6.6 and 6.1 that Ubuntu/Debian use, and those kernels may not work as well as the 6.9.11 kernel with this new CPU.
With this setup, I can easily run three Linux/Windows operating systems simultaneously with each system having at least 8 GB of memory allocated to it. So far, I have used the Xen hypervisor which works fine with this CPU, and I expect KVM, Hyper-V, or VMWare hypervisors in place of Xen would also work fine with this CPU.
I only rate this with four stars, though, because in a Windows virtual machine after Windows update automatically updated the driver for the UHD 700 graphics, the device manager reported a code 43 error and I had to roll back the UHD 700 graphics driver to the older version provided by ASRock for the B760M PG Riptide motherboard to enable graphics output to function correctly again. Overall, I am satisfied so far and hope it will last at least half as long as the 10-year-old Haswell CPU that this CPU replaced.
