i3-7350K is official

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This is a sweet, sweet deal: 4.2 GHz, 60W and $157. I am sure it'll be popular as hell to overclock. Almost surely it'll do 5GHz easily, even if you need to raise the voltage by a brutal 20% to get there it'll barely pass 100W and cooling that is easy, people regularly cool 135W Xeons with quality air coolers.
 
Not as sweet as g3258 was at its time, but not that bad either. Though I think it still won't provide more performance than $99 6100 (sale or Microcenter price) and will be crushed by any proper 4-core in modern games. As an htpc cpu paired with 1050ti - might be ok. It should've been priced around $125-130 to become a real best-seller.
 
I might pick one up to keep me busy until Skylake-X launches later this year.
 
Raendor said:
Not as sweet as g3258 was at its time
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Meh, G3258 was a pretty neutered chip. This is a real i3.

Though I think it still won't provide more performance than $99 6100 (sale or Microcenter price)
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How do you figure? Non-k overclocking was always sketchy, at best. And don't you have to stick to Win 7 for it to work?

This puppy will probably overclock close to (if not over) 5GHz. That's gonna be tough to top in all but well multithreaded applications.
 
Parja said:
Meh, G3258 was a pretty neutered chip. This is a real i3.



How do you figure? Non-k overclocking was always sketchy, at best. And don't you have to stick to Win 7 for it to work?

This puppy will probably overclock close to (if not over) 5GHz. That's gonna be tough to top in all but well multithreaded applications.
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What do you mean stick to Win 7? OC is irrelevant from OS as it's done through bios. Majority of the games these days become cpu bottlenecked without at least real 4 cores. So its high Hz won't help much. For its price locked i5 will serve better than this i3.
 
It's hyperthreaded, if that matters.... faux 4 cores!

Plus I'm officially starting the rumor it'll do 5.5Ghz on air.
 
This passes the 2C/4T requirement that some new(er) games have, that's a good thing. :LOL:
 
I hope it doesn't only support DDR4-2133/2400 That would really suck.
 
Nebulous said:
I hope it doesn't only support DDR4-2133/2400 That would really suck.
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That is the official Intel supported speed. Higher speed ram is technically overclocking the IMC. Look at the other chips at ark.intel.com this is typical.

The i7 7700K has the same: DDR4-2133/2400, DDR3L-1333/1600 @ 1.35V

And the
i7-6700K has this: DDR4-1866/2133, DDR3L-1333/1600 @ 1.35V
 
lolfail9001 said:
Memory support is chipset restricted.
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The memory controllers are in the CPU, and it looks like Kaby Lake desktop processors can use either DDR4 or DDR3L memory. Some 100 series boards unofficially support DDR3 1.5/1.65v memory, although it's unknown if that will work with Kaby Lake. First one to kill a KBL CPU with 1.65v memory loses. :p

Memory compatibility will be what's supported by motherboards that are Kaby Lake compatible. Most of those boards use DDR4, and DDR3L options will probably be very limited (or non-existent) on 270 boards.
 
Initial price for me in Canada looks to be $250. 6600k was going for $300 last week so it's hard to justify the price of the 7350k. Maybe in 6 months it will be worth buying once discounts start happening.
 
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