I don't see how you can conclude that. The i7-7700K score will be from one or two submissions, likely at high clocks. The fact that it says "@ 4 GHz" means nothing.
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7700k Tested at Tom's Hardware
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Cpus have been improving at such a pitiful rate in the last 5 years
I can't believe i still have my 2500k bought for £150 about five years ago!
I thought we'd at least have mainstream 6 and 8 core chips by now even if the ipc and frequency hadn't changed much.
I'm planning to get a 7700k though, as much for the more modern platform as pure cpu performance.
I have no issue with this - it means we have enough money to spend on graphics cards,LOL!!
Cpus have been improving at such a pitiful rate in the last 5 years
I can't believe i still have my 2500k bought for £150 about five years ago!
I thought we'd at least have mainstream 6 and 8 core chips by now even if the ipc and frequency hadn't changed much.
I'm planning to get a 7700k though, as much for the more modern platform as pure cpu performance.
Im glad, compared to the late 90's early 00's you be lucky for a top CPU to last 10 months.
Because software drove hardware improvements
. Nowadays most hardware will run most current software easily.Because software drove hardware improvements
I was under the impression that there was more headroom back in those days.
We're approaching the limits of silicon now aren't we?
Yes you can go 6 or 8 cores but most software is written for less.
Maybe the consoles are holding everything back due to having weak CPU power.
I still think these will hit 5 GHZ easily when they have matured, if AMD Zen is as good as it is meant to be then Intel will have do something interesting within the next 6 months. The reviewer had a board that wasn't really meant for it, the chip could have been engineer sample although I doubt it as it didn't have anything on the lid and it is still fairly new.
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Best thing about these is you could buy a cheap board and get 4.5 without overclocking.
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I reckon 5ghz is a possibility if they are 4.5ghz out of the box.
Even more if you can overclock the BCLK.
Cpus have been improving at such a pitiful rate in the last 5 years
I can't believe i still have my 2500k bought for £150 about five years ago!
IKR :/
My only regret is not stumping up for the 2600k, or even a 3770k when they were fresh. Had I done so, I probably wouldn't even be tempted by a Kaby having seen this review. As it is, I kinda want HT, and I think I'm still on an old PCI-E slot, so that in itself might drive me on. That, and I managed to get 95% of my 32GB memory in use - that's going to be much easier to solve with DDR4
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IKR :/
My only regret is not stumping up for the 2600k, or even a 3770k when they were fresh. Had I done so, I probably wouldn't even be tempted by a Kaby having seen this review. As it is, I kinda want HT, and I think I'm still on an old PCI-E slot, so that in itself might drive me on. That, and I managed to get 95% of my 32GB memory in use - that's going to be much easier to solve with DDR4
nah you will have pcie 3 if you fit a 3770k
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IKR :/
My only regret is not stumping up for the 2600k, or even a 3770k when they were fresh. Had I done so, I probably wouldn't even be tempted by a Kaby having seen this review. As it is, I kinda want HT, and I think I'm still on an old PCI-E slot, so that in itself might drive me on. That, and I managed to get 95% of my 32GB memory in use - that's going to be much easier to solve with DDR4
Yep, same here. I'll probably go kaby as an upgrade is due. I'm not expecting a huge upgrade though.
For gaming at 1080p or higher, the GPU is always the main bottleneck these days. When you look at both minimum and average frame rates for the i7-2600K and i7-6700K (both overclocked to 4.5 GHz or whatever) there is usually negligible difference.So my i5 2500k clocked at 4.8 ghz is still rocking 5 years on.
Pathetic is all I can say.
You'd think that for CPU intensive tasks the gap would be wider, and it is, but really the difference is still not that big. Cinebench shows a ~20% improvement clock-for-clock but that's pretty much the best you're gonna see. The fact that the chips clock higher out of the box makes non-K models much better though.
So my i5 2500k clocked at 4.8 ghz is still rocking 5 years on.
Pathetic is all I can say.
Why is that bad?
Indeed this is somewhat reminiscent of the dawn of Core2.
not true.play bf1.then you know that.cpu is probably more important in that game than gpu.
yeah why is it bad? if it does everything you want it to, even today, then thats great, not bad.