Testseek.com have collected 418 expert reviews of the Intel Core i7 7700K 4.2GHz Socket 1151 and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i7 7700K 4.2GHz Socket 1151.
January 2017
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The editors liked
Higher stock clocks than the Core i7-6700 at same TDP
Better overclocking headroom
Intel Optane support
VP9 decoding and 4K HEVC 10-bit encode/decode
Lots of Z270 motherboard choices
Great Multi-threaded Performance
Best In Class Single-threaded Performance
Better Power Consumption Than Skylake
Very Reasonable Price
The Best Overclocking Potential Since Sandy Bridge
The fastest 4-core processor on the market
High performance gaming and everyday applications
Very good efficiency
Reliable platform
Fastest CPU available
Hardware support for HDR and 4K streaming
Modest overclocking improvements
Fastest consumer CPU we've tested
Outside of much pricier Extreme Edition chips
Chipset delivers more PCI Express wiggle room for super-fast storage
Support for upcoming Intel Optane caching tech
Has hardware support for next-gen high-resolution strea
Tad more overclocking headroom than Skylake. Minor efficiency improvements. Z270 boards bring more PCIe and HSIO lanes
Highest clocked Intel CPU and 5.0GHz overclocks
4K HEVC encode/decode acceleration
The editors didn't like
Only a slight performance boost because of increased clocks
Compared to its predecessor
A small increase
The limited overclocking potential
Bottom Line
Intel's Kaby Lake–based Core i7-7700K is the fastest mainline consumer processor available
And it comes with support for 4K and HDR
It just may not be the best value for Skylake users given its modest speed improvements
Details and benefits of Optane tech are still scarce
More or less a minimal uptick over previous-generation "Skylake" i7 chip
No reason for Skylake owners to upgrade
Slightly faster than Skylake and still only quadcore
Discrete GPU use bypasses the video/graphics features
Abstract: Kaby Lake. (That's 'Kaby rhymes with baby' if you're wondering, according to my press contact over at Intel, though I've heard it called 'Cabbie' Lake by more than a few folks.) Intel's 7th Generation Core processors are now available for everything from...
Published: 2017-01-04, Author: Ian , review by: anandtech.com
The Core i7-7700K sits at the top of the stack, and performs like it. A number of enthusiasts complained when they launched the Skylake Core i7-6700K with a 4.0/4.2 GHz rating, as this was below the 4.0/4.4 GHz rating of the older Core i7-4790K. At this l...
Published: 2017-01-04, Author: Tomas , review by: hw4all.com
The fastest 4-core processor on the market, High performance gaming and everyday applications, Very good efficiency, Reliable platform,
Compared to its predecessor, a small increase, The limited overclocking potential
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Published: 2017-01-03, Author: Jeff , review by: Techreport.com
To sum up all of the data we collected over the past few pages, we've condensed our results into our famous value scatter plots. The non-gaming chart shows the performance each chip delivers per dollar, measured as the geometric mean of the results of ou...
Higher stock clocks than the Core i7-6700 at same TDP, Better overclocking headroom, Intel Optane support, VP9 decoding and 4K HEVC 10-bit encode/decode, Lots of Z270 motherboard choices
Only a slight performance boost because of increased clocks
So this is what the three year cadence now looks like. Us being in the 3rd year we are on the optimization phase. That means with Kaby Lake we are on the same 14nm node that started with Broadwell and on the same architecture as Skylake. What we do get is...
This is what we had to tell you about 7700K overclocking a couple of weeks ago. "Bad" Kaby Lake CPUs are looking to do 4.8GHz at less than 1.3v vCore. "Good" Kaby Lake CPUs are looking to do the magical 5GHz at 1.35v or less. 5GHz looks to be where thes...
Abstract: Intel's Tuesday rollout of 7th-generation Kaby Lake CPU for desktops has met a dubious fanfare of leaked reviews that dismiss the new chip as one huge Core i Yawn. Kaby Lake seems to offer barely any movement forward and when overclocked, apparently gets...
Well ladies and gentlemen there you have it. Intel's latest 7th generation aka Kaby Lake looks at first glance as a small evolution in processing power. Indeed we were a bit intrigued by the fact that there were no logical Instructions Per Clock gains to...
Well ladies and gentlemen there you have it. Intel's latest 7th generation aka Kaby Lake looks at first glance as a small evolution in processing power. Indeed we were a bit intrigued by the fact that there were no logical Instructions Per Clock gains to...
Fastest consumer CPU we've tested, outside of much pricier Extreme Edition chips, Chipset delivers more PCI Express wiggle room for super-fast storage, support for upcoming Intel Optane caching tech, Has hardware support for next-gen high-resolution strea
Details and benefits of Optane tech are still scarce, More or less a minimal uptick over previous-generation "Skylake" i7 chip
Intel's "Kaby Lake" Core i7 flagship is speedy, with hardware support for 4K streaming and HDR for services like Netflix. But performance gains over its previous-generation counterpart are fairly minimal, and our review chip didn't have much overclocking...
