Core i7 4770K processor review

Posted by: Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 06/01/2013 03:56 PM [ 297 comment(s) ]

Haswell is here, we review the Core i7 4770K processor. The new processor family should be a notch faster, get improved graphics performance and are more energy efficient. Will the Haswell processor series be everything you expected?

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Ghosty
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Posted on: 06/01/2013 04:02 PM

Thanks for the in depth review Hilbert. Looks like the 3770K is still going very strong.

moab600
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Posted on: 06/01/2013 04:22 PM

gonna keep my lovely 2700K, might get another board to oc it further to 5.0ghz. not real improvement over SB or IB.

Darren Hodgson
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Posted on: 06/01/2013 04:25 PM

Thorough review as always but is it me or is the i7-4770K a spectacularly unexciting product? I'm not sure why it was even released when it performs exactly the same as the i7-3770K. If the CPU ran cooler then that might have been something to shout about but, again, it's exactly the same as the 3770K. :3eyes:

My i7-920 is getting on for 5 years old but, right now, I think I'd be better off waiting for the next-gen consoles to come out then buying a 6-core CPU around then. I see absolutely no need to upgrade to Haswell right now although USB 3.0, PCI-E 3.0 (why do the slides on page 6 all show PCI-E 2.0?) and SATAIII would, undoubtedly, be nice things to have. In fact, those things are way more appealing than the CPU upgrade itself.

At one time, CPU upgrades used to be exciting events, promising faster performance in games, but now they seem to offer very little for gamers who already have powerful graphics cards.

---TK---
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Posted on: 06/01/2013 04:27 PM

nnot enough of an improvement to bother for me, I dont want another quad core cpu. my freaking phone has a quad core. I will save up for a 6 core or something

Hilbert Hagedoorn
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Posted on: 06/01/2013 04:29 PM

Haswell right now although USB 3.0, PCI-E 3.0 (why do the slides on page 6 all show PCI-E 2.0?) and SATAIII would, undoubtedly, be nice things to have. In fact, those things are way more appealing than the CPU upgrade itself.

You are looking at the PCH (south-bridge chipset) which have 2.0 links. The PCIe lanes for Graphics come directly from the processor and are 3.0

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