Testseek.com have collected 417 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
Where to start with this one folks? On one hand, we see what I feel is the face of complacency on the part of Intel with not having any real IPC gains in this refined 14nm+ CPU. On the other hand, why would they with no real competition in this segment...
For months we've heard people talking about how Kaby Lake is going to suck and that there is no reason to upgrade to it since it's basically just an updated Skylake processor. We can understand that some people might look at the specifications and minor a...
Published: 2017-01-03, Author: Ryan , review by: pcper.com
This is an interesting conclusion to write. On its surface, the Core i7-7700K and the Kaby Lake-S platform have very few advantages over the current shipping versions of Skylake. The processor has no drastic performance improvements over the 6700K and in...
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Published: 2017-01-03, Author: Steve , review by: gamersnexus.net
Performance overall lands us around where we’d expect from a new-generation i7 out of Intel: A couple percentage points in games, meaning that owners of the 6700K should probably just stick with that. Even the 4790K – and the 4770K, by extension – will...
Published: 2017-01-03, Author: Marco , review by: hothardware.com
Intel Core i7, i5, and i3 Kaby Lake Processors -- Find Them At AmazonIntel has a wide array of Core i3, i5, and i7 processors based on Kaby Lake either already on the market or coming down the pipeline. For the most part, the line-up is similar to Skylake...
Abstract: Intel today announced availability of its 7th generation Core desktop processor family codenamed "Kaby Lake". Leading the lineup is the Core i7-7700K. Kaby Lake is the second lineup of processors for the LGA1151 socket and is launched alongside the Intel...
Published: 2017-01-03, Author: Tom , review by: overclock3d.net
Since the release of the 2nd Generation of Intel Core Processors they have been dominating the market with a combination of affordability and performance. Whether you have gone down the i5 route with models such as the 2500K or 6600K, or have been stickin...
RAM overclocking is looking to be very good on Kaby Lake. I cannot get this particular 7700K CPU I am using here today to be full-load stable at 5GHz, so it is not what I think to be a "good" example of Kaby Lake overclocking, although the jury is still...
We have come to expect small advances in Intel IPC over the recent years and we have come to expect nothing from AMD. Intel has produced some fine silicon and injected excitement into our CPU industry when there were no others to lead. Thank you for that...
