Testseek.com have collected 267 expert reviews of the Intel Core i9 7900X 3.3GHz Socket R4 and the average rating is 83%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i9 7900X 3.3GHz Socket R4.
June 2017
(83%)
267 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
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659 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Great Multi-threaded Performance
Very Reasonable Price
Far easier overclocking than Haswell and Broadwell
The i9-7900X is the most powerful consumer CPU money can buy
High clock speeds out of the box
Improved memory support
Modern complement of IO
Lots of PCIe lanes (with an i9-7900X at least)
Freak777power 14 hours ago
Pros
10/20 cost now $999
10 cores and 20 processing threads
For $700 less than last year's comparable chip
Single-threaded performance on par with Core i7-7700K
10 cores and 20 processing threads for $999
Speedy single-threaded performance
Strong Performance
Good Overclockers
Feature Packed Platform
Fastest Desktop Processors To Date
Great multi-core performance
Improved single-core performance
Best performing desktop processor to date
Easy to overclock
Current LGA2011v3 CPU coolers will work
X299 platform is great
Strong single-core performance
Beats Threadripper 1950X at multi-threaded media encoding
Monolithic quad-channel memory interface
Fewer things to configure
Plenty of aftermarket cooling solutions
SkylakeX topped our performance charts
Bringing a much better value over BroadwellE on the highend
The editors didn't like
The i9-7900X costs £900/$1000
AMD's Ryzen offers 75 percent of the performance for well under half the price
The quad-core i7-7740X makes no sense—buy a 7700K instead
Confusing product stack that limits platform features
Power hungry
Requires a £100
Freak777power 14 hours ago
Runs hot when overclocked
Similar gaming issues at 1080p as AMD Ryzen chips
New LGA 2066 socket requires a new (and expensive) motherboard
Still pricey compared to Ryzen 7
Relatively pricey
Requires new
Expensive motherboard
Not the fastest at Full HD gaming
Runs hot
Differing PCIe Lane Configurations May Cause Confusion
Pricing May Change When ThreadRipper Arrives
Staggered released
Still 4 Core i9 processors yet to come out
Prices could change with Ryzen ThreadRipper comes out
High price
High idle power draw
No ECC memory support
Fewer PCIe lanes than Threadripper
It's extremely power hungry and considerably more expensive than Ryzen equivalents
So I think most people will admit that AMD has had a lot of wins this year with all of the Ryzen launches. As I found out in our 1700v7700K coverage the 7700K was still a great performing CPU, especially when looking at gaming performance. But with ju...
The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 1950X and Threadripper 1920X are very impressive processors that did extremely well in content creation benchmarks that take advantage of having a 16-core, 32-thread processor in the system. The good news is a good number of app...
Published: 2017-08-10, Author: Steve , review by: gamersnexus.net
By name and by marketing, the i5 CPU is most comparable to the R5 CPUs. The R5 2600's current $160 price-point makes it a less direct comparison, and the 2600X, which would perform about where an overclocked 2600 performs, is about $220. This is also...
It is not surprising, that the Core i9-7900X is the fastest desktop processor we have tested so far. It delivers so far unmatched performance in synthetic benchmarks and games. The frame rate variability is remarkably high however. The high performance is...
It is not surprising, that the Core i9-7900X is the fastest desktop processor we have tested so far. It delivers so far unmatched performance in synthetic benchmarks and games. The frame rate variability is remarkably high however. The high performance is...
Abstract: The Skylake-X Intel Core i9-7900X is superior to the Broadwell-E Intel Core i7-6950X Extreme Edition in just about every way.First, the familiar. This is a 10-core processor that can handle 20 concurrent threads at once thanks to Hyper-Threading technolog...
The Intel Core i9-7900X processor and the associated Intel X299 LGA2066 platform are brand new and still a little rough around the edges. As with all new process architectures and chipsets things will get better with time and they already have. The Intel...
Abstract: Its hard to believe considering we just finished up an Intel launch, but it is already time to check out Intel’s next launch. Kaby Lake was launched at the beginning of this year and the Mainstream lineup of CPUs is getting refreshed with Coffee Lake and Z370. This is the 8th generation of Intel’s Core processors going back to the original launch back in 2006...
Published: 2017-07-04, Author: Mark , review by: arstechnica.com
The i9-7900X is the most powerful consumer CPU money can buy, High clock speeds out of the box, Improved memory support, Modern complement of IO, Lots of PCIe lanes (with an i9-7900X at least)
The i9-7900X costs £900/$1000, AMD's Ryzen offers 75 percent of the performance for well under half the price, The quad-core i7-7740X makes no sense—buy a 7700K instead, Confusing product stack that limits platform features, Power hungry, Requires a £100
Published: 2017-06-30, Author: Joel , review by: pcmag.com
10 cores and 20 processing threads for $999, Speedy single-threaded performance
Relatively pricey, Requires new, expensive motherboard, Not the fastest at Full HD gaming, Runs hot
Intel's Core i9-7900X features a 10-core processor at a significant discount compared with last year's Extreme Edition processor. It heralds renewed competition between AMD and Intel for the high-end PC buyer...
