While most of the hype in the CPU world right now is centered around AMD's
upcoming ryzen release Intel has no plans to take that lying down and has
just unveiled their seventh generation core processors for desktop code name
kbl
Lake evga's dg-87 full tower case
features optimized airf flow pathing to help keep your Hardware cool check it
out at the link in the video description they claim to be taking Computing to the
next level but I'm pretty sure marketing
guys would just get fired if they don't say that kind of stuff only performance
will tell whether a shiny new KB Lake will be worth 350 of your hard-earned
dollars we'll be looking at Intel's newest consumer grade Flagship the core
i77700 K and if you think that just means the usual features you know quad
core hyperthreading and overclockability on Z series chipsets well Sarah you'd be
100% correct out of the box there's a
bump on the clock speed compared to its Skylake predecessor the 6700k and you
also get Intel HD graphics 630 as opposed to 530 though if you spend this
kind of money on a high-end i7 you're probably using discret Graphics from the
likes of NVIDIA or AMD anyways so to find the differences we clearly need to
dig a bit deeper there doesn't seem to be much else on paper to separate these
chips they have the same TDP of 91 Watts
the same 16 P Lanes and even the same
manufacturing process the old Tick Tock
Cadence meant a new process so smaller
processors every 2 years but kbl lake is
still using the same 14 nanometer finfet transistors we've had since Broadwell in
2014 so at this point I wouldn't blame
you for not being mega super excited
about the 7700k itself but that doesn't
mean there isn't anything worth talking about with respect to the platform one
thing that will be immediately relevant to a lot of folks that own a 4K display
will be the ability to watch Netflix in
4k this is thanks to a new DRM scheme
that I'm sure consumers will just love
because it has nothing to do with processing power at all and everything
to do with a special hardware-based decoder that can only be found in kbl
lak CPUs at this
time on the subject of 4K content you also get 4k 10bit video decoding through
the vp9 codec used by YouTube so if you
have a monitor with 10bit color and a supported video card you can get
smoother color transitions when watching supported content very cool
perhaps more interesting than that is support for optane which is Intel's
version of 3D Cross Point a new type of
memory with cells that are packed more densely meaning higher capacities and
faster speeds that is expected to perform somewhere between system RAM and
an SSD pretty freaking cool but kind of
like SATA Express back in the day there's no word on if and when we'll see
it on consumer PCS but hopefully we'll get this one there are also new chipsets
we tested our CPU on an ASUS Rog Maximus
99 code featuring The Zed 270 chipset
which adds native support for USB 3.1 10
gbit and an additional 4 PCI Express 3.0
Lanes which is actually a welcome change considering how popular P based storage
is becoming in the form of tiny and increasingly affordable m.2 drives some
other fun features of this board spefic specifically include a water flow sensor
a USB 3.1 10 GB front panel header Aura
and Aura sync to add some RGB to your case reinforced PCI Express slots for
heavy gpus and a built-in headphone
amplifier but enough chitchat did this 7700k Z 2712 punch impress us with its
performance gains we compared it to a Skylake 6700k both at stock and at
overclocked speeds using ASUS's AI tuner automatic overclock and setting
temperature and voltage targets to 80°
and 1.35 volts to keep things safe which
gave us 4.9 GHz on kbl lake and 4.6 on
Skylake let us know in the comments if you'd like a full OC guide including
manual tuning in the future let's start with thermals and power draw
temperatures were quite similar though kbl Lake showed a slight Improvement at
load though both chips were comfortably below below their thermal throttling
point in Ida 64 kbl lak similarly showed a small
Improvement in power draw nothing dramatic and it won't affect your system
build planning since it's easy to run an Enthusiast single graphics card system
on an inexpensive 450 to 500 wat power
supply anyways now let's dive into performance numbers our synthetics which
included CPU Mark y cruncher cin bench
and Rog re bench showed Lake offering
improvements of about 5 to 7% across the
board including in single-threaded applications which isn't terrible but
isn't horribly impressive either and
when you compare KB lake at stock versus our overclocked Skylake chip which ran
within 100 MHz of each other the Gap
becomes smaller making these improvements an even more minor selling
point for enthusiasts who well
overclock gaming performance wasn't much
different as there was no appreciable difference between Generations when
gaming with a discret GTX 1080 with kbl
Lake actually performing slightly worse in some situations for Onboard video
efficient Autos the integrated HD 630 Graphics do show a small improvement
over Skylake but the 1 to two extra frames per second don't really make it
viable for for new AAA titles bringing us to the conclusion these small
improvements don't make KB Lake a bad
platform if you liked last year's Madden game you'll probably like the new one
with all the updated player stats and special team jerseys too they just mean
that kbl Lake isn't really a sensible upgrade for a core i7 machine built in
the last one to 3 years something that
could be a product of the challenges associated with building fast F chips on
current technology or could be a product
of a complacent Intel that hasn't really had a real competitor in almost a decade
I'm sure the next couple of years will tell us once and for all which one it is
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