Finally some numbers to de-mystify how good this CPU actually is. Sure, it's beating AMD at that price point, but I have to seriously question what low end motherboards will allow you to run this CPU with MCE and TB2 enabled. I'm pretty sure low end ones, like H410 chipsets are capped at 95W of socket power, so forget using any Intel CPU for a "budget" build with those and as soon as you find a motherboard that can get you to 140W (!) for this budget CPU, you definitely start wasting that saved money on cooling and the motherboard, so while the CPU when you look at it with tunnel vision is "ok", you have to really consider the bigger picture of what Intel is really offering here.
It was a very good review, but I would've like a bit more thinking on the conclusion given what I mentioned above. This doesn't negate the fact it's, probably, the best CPU in that price bracket, but platform cost should be as important as the CPU cost and the conditions in which it* can really stretch its legs. Losing ~20% MT performance because you have to run it at 65W mode is not trivial. And this is also assuming low cost motherboards can actually use gear 1 (or "OC" mode) for whatever RAM over 2933Mhz you want to use. Which is also something that was missed form the review: a "full" stock test. Unless I missed something.
Cheers!