I bought this with a dual-cpu ASUS Z9NA-D6C motherboard and couldn't be happier. I only have a single CPU in it now but in the future when I plan to do more CPU-intensive work I'll pop in another. With hyperthreading there are 12 cores and it devours video, graphic, and 3D rendering tasks.
-Processing power to price ratio -Power efficiency for price -Great for video/graphic editing; rendering; and compression -Great for 3D modelling
-Wasn't released early enough