Received a clean and nice CPU, straighten the legs in three corners with the paper knife, inserted it and went off to the races! It has AVX2 instruction said, unlike its siblings, which makes it suitable for running LM Studio
I must admit I was a little nervous about this purchase. I thought the shipping would take forever and I might be stuck with an incompatible chip...but it arrived before expected and, knock on wood, it working like a champ. My son is thrilled with the added performance.