Intel Core i7-12700K vs Intel Core i7-7700K

This design philosophy aids the kind of design we've seen in mobile chip architectures for a long time now where you sometimes want very efficient cor...

Apex mostly runs at 144 with dips to low 100s depending on the area. BDO runs consistently between 110-120 with dips into the 90s when in heavily populated city areas. Overall extremely happy and should hold me for a year or so until I decide to upgrade my mobo for a ninth generation cpu.

This is all very good news, but it doesn't offer make my review of the Core I7 12700k slightly complicated. Happily, having given you that preamble, w...

That said, while it is faster than the R7 1700, if we look at the overclocked results, we see that it only wins by a five percent margin. We find a si...

As for the motherboards, I've again gone with the Msi, Z690, Tomahawk Wi-fi Ddr4 for testing the 12th Gen Core series processors in this review. Now, ...

These tests use the Kraken X 62 cooler, which was chosen so that we could monitor the temperature Delta between the liquid, the actual cooling liquid ...

If you have a Corsair H100I RGB Platinum or similar cooler already: The included 1200 screws work just fine with the 1700 socket and this CPU, even though you are supposed to get the 1700 kit/screws for this CPU (Which I did, but they are taking FOREVER to ship, so I googled, and someone said using the 1200 screws will work just fine). I get better temps. than my Ryzen 7 1700. I can even overclock EVEN MORE but have no need, and no point

The card even playing heavily demanding games never even touches 100% load and due to contrary belief keeps pretty cool temps while gaming, most games won't exceed it's usage of around 50% and with this it only gets 10*c hotter than my previous i5 which usually stayed around 45*c. Ran Prime95 when I first got the CPU just to see what everyone is talking about with the temps and it never even exceeded 66*c. I guess I lucked out maybe and got a good one. CPU specs: i7-7700K Asrock Z270 motherboard Asus GTX 1080 8GB Crucial Ballistix x 2 16GB total Corsair H100 v2 AIO Liquid Cooler NZXT S340 case

I've had this overclocked at 5.0 GHz for a couple weeks now and it hasn't skipped a beat. I bought an MSI Z690 MPG Edge Motherboard to pair with this beast of a chip. Keep in mind, it does NOT come with a cooler so make sure you have a reputable thermal paste and a solid cooler to pair with this

did this 7700 K Zed 271 2 punch impress us with its performance gains. We compared it to a Skylake 6700 K both at stock and at overclocked speeds, usi...