Tom's Hardware i7-7700K OC Preview

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I wish my i5 2500 was a k so I wouldn't have to give a shit.

It's still too bad since you can do a MaxTurboMulti+2 OC on it.

 

[Sonikku]

The gist of what I've heard is that it's not worth fiddling with on my H77M mobo.

 

[Madpacket]

Yours is probably below average. Every single one of those 3 machines I built on the 5820k hit 4.4 fine. I hit the wall where I had to jack up voltage and heat dramatically starting at 4.5, so I dropped all of them back down to 4.4 I could do 4.4 at 1.25v+vdroop correction to 1.3v+vdroop correction vcore on all of them. All of these were on the cheapest Asrock X99 board, which is still pretty nice. I find it hard to believe I got 3 above average chips in a row

At 4.2 you have to start looking at BCLK, RAM dividers, uncore, etc. It definitely gets more complex from 4.2 and up

Hmm. My 5930K has a hard time with anything more than 4.2Ghz, I just leave it at 4.0 for stability purposes. Perhaps I need to play with uncore settings. The memory controller on it is good and let's me run 128GB of RAM at 3000Mhz. Samsung G.Skill is good stuff.

 

[2is]

Less trouble than delidding I mean. Expense is subjective I suppose, depending on how much he can pawn his 4770K for and how much he can buy the 4790K for.

I just think it's a waste of time and money to go through the hassle of selling/buying, removing old CPU, installing new CPU, all for a couple hundred MHz that isn't likely to get noticed.

 

[EightySix Four]

The memory controller on it is good and let's me run 128GB of RAM at 3000Mhz.

VMs?

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I just think it's a waste of time and money to go through the hassle of selling/buying, removing old CPU, installing new CPU, all for a couple hundred MHz that isn't likely to get noticed.

I am of the same opinion, but it is an option.

 

[Madpacket]

VMs?

For a few reasons. VM's primarily to simulate environments to learn on. RAM is a little overkill for 6 cores but Docker is fine to play with. But also to do wasteful and interesting things like tossing entire AAA games into a 96Gb RAM disk from a 512GB NVME Samsung 950 Pro.

Ultimately I plan on selling the 5930 and pick up an 8 or 10 core if they drop price enough after Zen comes out. Would be awesome to setup a multi gaming PC through one system.

 

[Rifter]

Such a joke, calling this a new generation is dishonest. New steppings used to give better results than this.

This is nothing more than a cash grab to lure in the people who dont know anything about PC's.

 

[jpiniero]

Such a joke, calling this a new generation is dishonest. New steppings used to give better results than this.

This is nothing more than a cash grab to lure in the people who dont know anything about PC's.

It's really for OEMs; OEMs want new products. New products they get.

 

[TheELF]

Such a joke, calling this a new generation is dishonest. New steppings used to give better results than this.

This is nothing more than a cash grab to lure in the people who dont know anything about PC's.

The people who don't know anything about PC's (so no idea about what o/c even is) will get a nice ~8% faster CPU then the previous guy who didn't knew anything about PC's and got a skylake.

For us who do know about PC's it's just a cash grab,although none of us will buy this if we already have a good CPU so no money grabbed at all.

 

[jpiniero]

The people who don't know anything about PC's (so no idea about what o/c even is) will get a nice ~8% faster CPU then the previous guy who didn't knew anything about PC's and got a skylake.

For us who do know about PC's it's just a cash grab,although none of us will buy this if we already have a good CPU so no money grabbed at all.

They want you to buy Skylake-X.

 

[Sven_eng]

The people who don't know anything about PC's (so no idea about what o/c even is) will get a nice ~8% faster CPU then the previous guy who didn't knew anything about PC's and got a skylake.

For us who do know about PC's it's just a cash grab,although none of us will buy this if we already have a good CPU so no money grabbed at all.

People should read this post from a technologist pov and then ask why some people keep to defend intel while slamming AMD.