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
200MHz higher base clock / 300MHz Turbo, Vastly improved overclocking headroom, Hardware decoding support for VP9 and HEVC, AVX offset
Pointless for the vast majority of gamers, unless overclocked, No IPC gains
Much like the Devil's Canyon 4790K, the 7700K refreshes the 6700K, but this time with much higher clock speeds and a few updates in hardware acceleration within the IGP...
Up to 4.5 GHz clock speed, 8M cache, 4 cores, 8 threads, overclockable, Intel HD Graphics 630
No huge performance difference
With the amazing performance, the CPU is great for gamers and professionals both. But whom having the 6th gen sky lake CPU should wait for next upgrade as there is no huge performance difference.Intel recently launches its new more powerful processor “Ka...
Best mainstream CPU currently, Improved IGP, Support for Optane
Minor performance improvement over Skylake
Overall, the CPU is the best performer in the high-end segment and we are really excited to see how the competition acts with the release of Ryzen right on the horizon. If you already have a 4790K or a 6700K, it's best to skip this one and wait for Cannon...
Excellent feature set, Lots of connectivity including USB 3.1 Type-A and Type-C, High-end overclocking supported, Integrated Wi-Fi
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While the larger buying public is unaware of Intel's behind-the-scenes roadmap changes and process technology delays, enthusiasts worry about things like whether Kaby Lake is a pointless stopgap created solely to keep a billion-dollar marketing machine ru...
The Intel Core i5-7700K is one superb processor, it retails at slightly over RM 1.6k. If you don't intend to overclock, this is not the chip for you. If you do intend to overclock, get this processor and do remember to pair it with a reasonably good coole...
Abstract: Intel has finally taken the wraps off its high-performance Kaby Lake chips, which includes models for both desktops and gaming notebooks. The new chips join Intel's low-power U-series chips that were first announced in August in completing the Kaby Lake l...
Excellent stock performance, About 10% faster than Skylake, High factory clock speed thanks to 14nm+ technology, Unlocked multiplier that allows overclocking, 5.0 GHz overclock is possible on air/water with all cores enabled, Great DDR4 memory overclockin
Expensive, Identical per-core performance as Skylake, iGPU is still far from catching up a discrete GPU, Intel Core i7-7700K CPU received Gold Award from OCDrift.com, Disclaimer: OCDrift.com gives out our own award based on the Hardware Performance, OverC
Today marked the launch of Intel's new 7th Generation Core “Kaby Lake” desktop processors, which represent the Optimization step of the company's new “Process-Architecture-Optimization” manufacturing process technology. Kaby Lake can be said as an optimiz...
In a nutshell, Ryzen 5's main advantage over Intel's Core i5 range is the higher number of cores and threads it offers while sharing the same price bracket. That's not unlike what AMD offers with its Ryzen 7 CPUs, all of which are 8-core/16-thread parts...
There's no doubt that the Ryzen 7 1800X is the most exciting processor from AMD in a long while. Intel is clearly already feeling the heat, and it has since slashed the prices across its Kaby Lake and Broadwell-E line-up.However, the 8-core/16-thread arch...
Abstract: Intel has finally taken the wraps off its high-performance Kaby Lake chips, which includes models for both desktops and gaming notebooks. The new chips join Intel's low-power U-series chips that were first announced in August in completing the Kaby Lake l...
