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Intel Leaks i7-2700K

Stonedofmoo

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I did wonder when this would turn up, they usually give the chips a speed bump half way through the CPU's shelf life. The article suggests it will replace the i7-2600k

The specs of i7-2700K are unknown though. It's also a question whether there will be i7-2700 and i7-2700S or not. However, we would expect i7-2700K to carry similar specs as i7-2600K (four cores, Hyper-Threading, unlocked multiplier, 8MB L3...), but a slightly higher default frequency. Given Intel's history, 100MHz (one multiplier) increase sounds likely, making i7-2700K's stock frequency 3.5GHz with up to 3.9GHz Turbo. Price wise i7-2700K should also replace i7-2600K, making its price ~$317.
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http://www.anandtech.com/show/4757/intel-leaks-i72700k
 
i wonder what there going to do with regards the 2500K then, i mean they normally bump the whole line up a notch, dropping the slowest chip off the bottom?.
 
Or perhaps nothing at all. Maybe they are simply bumping up the i7 range for now. After all the i5 is meant to be a lower end chip on paper which is almost as fast in reality.
 
hopefully bring the price of the 2600k and 2500k down as well. this means anyone with i3 will pop in a 2500 and all us 2500 owners will be sticking in 2600's etc. well in an ideal world that is.
 
Does any of this mean that the 2700k will overclock higher than the 2600k, or is it the same chip but basically pre-clocked? As a turbo of 3.9 for any overclocker is already lower than what they are running at. Hence will overclockers just buy the 2600k still and clock it higher than the newer 2700k? If so this seems a little pointless from Intel's side especially with the K chip
 
VoG said:
well they did the exact same thing when the 930 came out, it replaced the 920 at pretty much the same price point, then the 920 went eol.
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But the 930 was just a multiplier-bumped 920, the 2600k is not a multiplier-bumped 2500k.
 
Either way its not really important, who cares what the default clock speed is on a unlocked CPU ? Its just a pre-overclocked 2600k. Doesn't mean it'll overclock by anymore.
 
Stolly said:
Either way its not really important, who cares what the default clock speed is on a unlocked CPU ? Its just a pre-overclocked 2600k. Doesn't mean it'll overclock by anymore.
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But it's not pre-overclocked though is it?
It could be higher binned, so could overclock further.
 
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