Intel i3 7350K review

[DELTAprime]

Steve at Hardware Unboxed is the latest reviewer to post a "leaked" Kaby Lake review. This time it's the Intel Core i3 7350K. Yes an overclocked i3.

 

Nothing really to quote here since it's a YouTube review and I think it's pretty much as expected just like every other Kaby Lake CPU we have seen so far.

 

Edit: video was removed and reuploaded.

Edited December 21, 2016 by DELTAprime

[Droidbot]

Kaby Lake is a disappointment from what he's shown. The unlocked i3 is nice though. 

Ryzen has still 1 quarter to save us from the IntelMonopoly™

[HKZeroFive]

TL;DW - single core performance is great but for anything that is multi-threaded, a locked entry-level i5 will outclass it.

 

When you factor in the Z170 motherboard, CPU cooler and the extra price premium that comes with the K-series CPUs, it's a bit too much to pay for a dual core. Especially in 2017.

[Bananasplit_00]

dualcores just dont cut it anymore basically

[SCHISCHKA]

i would get one for its 4GHz single core performance if they have good power consumption. I don't really care about the unlocked cores on it though; that would just increase its price possibly above an i5

[patrickjp93]

10 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

TL;DW - single core performance is great but for anything that is multi-threaded, a locked entry-level i5 will outclass it.

 

When you factor in the Z170 motherboard, CPU cooler and the extra price premium that comes with the K-series CPUs, it's a bit too much to pay for a dual core. Especially in 2017.

Even though it beats some I5s in multithreaded benchmarks... 

[Castdeath97]

13 minutes ago, HKZeroFive said:

TL;DW - single core performance is great but for anything that is multi-threaded, a locked entry-level i5 will outclass it.

 

When you factor in the Z170 motherboard, CPU cooler and the extra price premium that comes with the K-series CPUs, it's a bit too much to pay for a dual core. Especially in 2017.

Called it. Intel still can't release a proper low end CPU other than the traditional i3. The anniversary pentium and this thing are both a disappointment.

[Castdeath97]

4 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

Even though it beats some I5s in multithreaded benchmarks... 

Does it beat the i5 6600? Don't think it will beat the i5 7600/7500 when they come out as well.

 

Keep in mind, you will need to factor the Z170 board and the cooler to make proper use of it. With the locked i5s, you can use the stock cooler and a simple B150 board.

[Mister Snow]

8 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

Even though it beats some I5s in multithreaded benchmarks... 

Only i5 2500K that is almost 6 years old.

[DELTAprime]

2 minutes ago, Castdeath97 said:

Does it beat the i5 6600? Don't think it will beat the i5 7600/7500 when they come out as well.

 

Keep in mind, you will need to factor the Z170 board and the cooler to make proper use of it. With the locked i5s, you can use the stock cooler and a simple B150 board.

Yeah the i5 it beats is how old? Seriously I think it's a 2011 part.

[patrickjp93]

3 minutes ago, Mister Snow said:

Only i5 2500K that is almost 6 years old.

Actually it very closely competes with the 4670.

[Guest]

I just hope that they can price it aggressively considering that the current pre-order price being $177. It is a tad cheaper than the i5 6600k though the i5 did perform better in all the benchmarks given that it has more cores to work with.

 

I'm also curious to see as to whether its performance is close to the i5-7400 which has a current pre-order value of $189 which is only a small step above the i3 at hand. We must also consider the fact that the i3 would require more cooling and a capable motherboard which both add to the cost of the overall package.

[HKZeroFive]

14 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

Even though it beats some I5s in multithreaded benchmarks... 

Pardon me, I should have clarified that the phrase 'locked entry-level i5' did not include quad cores from five years ago.

[Mister Snow]

3 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

Actually it very closely competes with the 4670.

Yes, it's relatively close when overclocked to 4.8GHz but still, I don't think it's worth it unless you need it for just single threaded workloads.

[patrickjp93]

1 minute ago, HKZeroFive said:

Pardon me, I should have clarified that the phrase 'locked entry-level i5' did not include quad cores from five years ago.

The 4670 is not from 5 years ago.

[Mister Snow]

2 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

The 4670 is not from 5 years ago.

Never said it was.

[patrickjp93]

5 minutes ago, Mister Snow said:

Never said it was.

Then it's a good thing the 7350K ties it in Cinebench and Chess with a 200MHz overclock in multithreaded mode.

[Mister Snow]

2 minutes ago, patrickjp93 said:

Then it's a good thing the 7350K ties it in Cinebench and Chess with a 200MHz overclock in multithreaded mode.

You mean on top of that 4.8GHz overclock?

[patrickjp93]

2 minutes ago, Mister Snow said:

You mean on top of that 4.8GHz overclock?

No, I mean just 200MHz above boost clock.

[HKZeroFive]

Just now, patrickjp93 said:

The 4670 is not from 5 years ago.

And yet it outperforms the i3 7350K clocked at 4.8GHz in basically every scenario presented within the video, with the exception of a synthetic benchmark and BF1.

 

But when I said 'locked entry-level i5', I was implying the i5 6400 and i5 6500, which are both barely slower than the presented stock i5 6600K that practically demolished the i3-7350K (even when overclocked to 4.8GHz) in every benchmark.

 

Going back to my initial statement, if you factor the price of the i3 7350K, CPU cooler and the Z170 motherboard, it makes no sense to buy it over something like a i5 6400 + H110 motherboard unless the application you are using is heavily single-threaded.

[patrickjp93]

1 minute ago, HKZeroFive said:

And yet it outperforms the i3 7350K clocked at 4.8GHz in basically every scenario presented within the video, with the exception of a synthetic benchmark and BF1.

 

But when I said 'locked entry-level i5', I was implying the i5 6400 and i5 6500, which are both barely slower than the presented stock i5 6600K that practically demolished the i3-7350K (even when overclocked to 4.8GHz) in every benchmark.

 

Going back to my initial statement, if you factor the price of the i3 7350K, CPU cooler and the Z170 motherboard, it makes no sense to buy it over something like a i5 6400 + H110 motherboard unless the application you are using is heavily single-threaded.

Or heavily vectorized where clocks count way more than core count.

[Mister Snow]

1 hour ago, patrickjp93 said:

No, I mean just 200MHz above boost clock.

Are we still talking about 4670? Because it doesn't match it even at 4.8GHz, it comes close but that's all so how could it tie with it at 4.4GHz?

[Dabombinable]

1 hour ago, HKZeroFive said:

TL;DW - single core performance is great but for anything that is multi-threaded, a locked entry-level i5 will outclass it.

 

When you factor in the Z170 motherboard, CPU cooler and the extra price premium that comes with the K-series CPUs, it's a bit too much to pay for a dual core. Especially in 2017.

Once again, the unlocked CPU from Intel do not need a Z series/enthusiast class motherboard to overclock. From the Pentium 4 Extreme all the way through to the 6700K. As for cooling-dual cores don't need much at all-especially new ones (you could run an old E8500 at 4GHz on the stock cooler without it throttling).

[JoaoPRSousa]

I wonder how he got both the CPU and motherboard...

 

Nevermind, he used a Z170 motherboard (wat)

[Simon771]

Probbably not worth it.

Anyone who wants to overclock, will get Z170 motherboard with i5 or i7 CPU.

 

It's a bit pointless to buy motherboard that costs more than CPU.