Early Core i7-7700K testing reveals higher clocks and power usage
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Intel's desktop Kaby Lake CPUs haven't even been officially announced yet, but the folks at Tom's Hardware got their hands on a sample of the blue team's biggest, baddest next-gen chip for the desktop so far-the Core i7-7700K-ahead of its launch. The site did what any of us would do in that enviable situation: test the chip's performance in both stock-clocked and overclocked configurations.
The basic specs of the Core i7-7700K that Tom's reports are about in line with the rumors and leaks we've seen so far. Tom's says the chip has a 4.2 GHz base clock and a 4.5 GHz Turbo speed, and its four cores and eight threads slip into a 95W TDP-up slightly from the Core i7-6700K's ...