intel core i7 Owners Club

[prasoooon]

I recently got this Kaby Lake i7 7700k....quit satisfied with it.....Idle temp is 26-28 c. Under Load mAx was 71c

 

[peche]

lol here you go

After some research, I realized QHQF is one of the best Skylake engineering samples available. It's about the same as 6700K but OC won't hit much further than 4.3GHz generally.

So... I dug out the best deal online. Taobao is chinese-only but, like Aliexpress, it's owned by the Alibaba group.

CPU only (~US$160). Hey, a lot better than i7 6700. A true K chip, so you don't lose AVX and temp readings even when venturing in non-K BCLK OC lands.

CPU+mobo (~US$278) - I got mine from this seller, only asked him to add some quality DDR4 kit to the mix, but mobo was ASRock Z170 at the time (currently MSI Z170 Gaming M3, likely better). Ask for HK or China Post if you want to keep the total low (shipping takes long but is really cheap).

well for those freaky and pretty interesting prices its a quite great option indeed, its better to get this i7 instead i since price its awesome, for a complete combo you will stay under $325 which is pretty much half odf the real cost, so links and moar info will be pretty appreciated, maybe could help fellow's to upgrade wisely to skylake builds and save money,

Also, tell us a bit about shipping, how it was and how secure and complete it was, like getting UPS delivery? i have heard that china mail service its better than most people thinks,

I recently got this Kaby Lake i7 7700k....quit satisfied with it.....Idle temp is 26-28 c. Under Load mAx was 71c

Welcome dude!
Overclocked? what about cooling, those readings are great! you might have gotten a #GoldenChip! which is maybe the best thing that could happen there!


Regards,

 

[FireFox]

 

[Melvis]

First i7 I got was a bargin price i7-940 with a GB UD5 Mobo and 6GB RAM for $140. Then sold the 940 for a 970, was a swap plus cash, so the i7 970 cost me $120 I think. This was a good 4-5yrs ago now

Second i7 I got was a i7-2600 and it came with a Mini GB Mobo and 8GB and a 128GB Samsung SSD for $10, bargin of a life time.

Those are my two i7's I own

 

[yesyesloud]

well for those freaky and pretty interesting prices its a quite great option indeed, its better to get this i7 instead i since price its awesome, for a complete combo you will stay under $325 which is pretty much half odf the real cost, so links and moar info will be pretty appreciated, maybe could help fellow's to upgrade wisely to skylake builds and save money,

Also, tell us a bit about shipping, how it was and how secure and complete it was, like getting UPS delivery? i have heard that china mail service its better than most people thinks,

I have received over 50 items via China Air Mail and HK Post through the years, not all of them this expensive of course but some actually were. You get full tracking etc. You may ask for ups or fedex at extra cost instead.

Besides if you're not comfortable paying through taobao, Payoneer is the way to go - buyer insured invoices with fees lower than PayPal's. You'll have to walk the guy through it though (as I did using taobao webchat hehe)

As a side note, there's also Kaby Lake ES but I don't know what revision is better atm or how OC scales (probably a bit better anyway)

Well, that's about it

 

[prasoooon]

Welcome dude!
Overclocked? what about cooling, those readings are great! you might have gotten a #GoldenChip! which is maybe the best thing that could happen there!

Well, I haven't decided to overclock it yet, cos I don't know a proper way to do it so may be later.
And yea temps are great here in hot country like this where ambient room temp is 26c in winter now. But is that temp in load good? It shows 75c max at once when I played watch dogs 2 yesterday. Otherwise its running constantly as 65-68c while playing.

 

[peche]

Finally, after 1000 jokes... now delidded ! great work taking that crappy tim and adhesive there!
Mint!

First i7 I got was a bargin price i7-940 with a GB UD5 Mobo and 6GB RAM for $140. Then sold the 940 for a 970, was a swap plus cash, so the i7 970 cost me $120 I think. This was a good 4-5yrs ago now

Second i7 I got was a i7-2600 and it came with a Mini GB Mobo and 8GB and a 128GB Samsung SSD for $10, bargin of a life time.

Those are my two i7's I own

i wish i could find those deals! great great deals! i just love i7's...

I have received over 50 items via China Air Mail and HK Post through the years, not all of them this expensive of course but some actually were. You get full tracking etc. You may ask for ups or fedex at extra cost instead.

Besides if you're not comfortable paying through taobao, Payoneer is the way to go - buyer insured invoices with fees lower than PayPal's. You'll have to walk the guy through it though (as I did using taobao webchat hehe)

As a side note, there's also Kaby Lake ES but I don't know what revision is better atm or how OC scales (probably a bit better anyway)

Well, that's about it

thats a really appreciated information, pretty useful for some people here!,
Also the plus that fees and charges are lower makes me rethink about gatting maybe just motherboard and ram there since ill need them in a short future!

Regards,

Well, I haven't decided to overclock it yet, cos I don't know a proper way to do it so may be later.
And yea temps are great here in hot country like this where ambient room temp is 26c in winter now. But is that temp in load good? It shows 75c max at once when I played watch dogs 2 yesterday. Otherwise its running constantly as 65-68c while playing.

well, Overclock its a pretty interesting adventure, so could be nice to read some articles and also ask what you would like to achieve here, also here in this thread / Post / owner's club are several Overclockers, so feel free to ask whatever you might need here!
We are here to help each other!


Regards,

 

[FireFox]

well, Overclock its a pretty interesting adventure,

Not anymore, nowadays even a 5 years old Boy/Girl would OC a CPU without any difficulties, just a few clicks and they/you are done.

 

[FireFox]

Finally, after 1000 jokes...

 

[peche]

all the screwed processor jokes... dont come up with that bro...

 

[FireFox]

all the screwed processor jokes... dont come up with that bro...

And you believed me

 

[peche]

And you believed me

 

[Kanan]

Not anymore, nowadays even a 5 years old Boy/Girl would OC a CPU without any difficulties, just a few clicks and they/you are done.

Yeah and run into issues a few days later. No. It needs constant monitoring and voltage adjustment + many other factors. Proper overclocking is still an expert job.

btw I'm sporting a 3960X by now OC @ 4.5 GHz and 1.37 Voltage, rised it all the way up from 1.31 to 1.37 because the CPU or mainboard changed, I'm not sure. This is just a example of what I said earlier.

 

[peche]

Overclock is a interesting adventure, well said, now days most people could even use auto OC on some boards, but i still rather the older methods, manual changes and tests, ...

Regards,

 

[Kanan]

Yeah and auto OC that's just a joke most of the times. The easiest reliable OC is still Multiplier + Auto Voltage, it works pretty good, but the power consumption (and stress on hardware) is higher than if you determine the best value and set it yourself.

 

[Komshija]

Not anymore, nowadays even a 5 years old Boy/Girl would OC a CPU without any difficulties, just a few clicks and they/you are done.

Overclocking wasn't such a big issue before. The only tricky example I remember was unlocking the multiplier on old AMD XP CPU's by connecting two external pins.

On topic: I own i7 6700K, first Intel CPU after a long line of AMD's. My i7 seems to be an average chip, since I can get 4,7 GHz without surpassing 1.4 V mark, while some good chips can achieve 4,8 or even 4,9 GHz.

 

[peche]

On topic: I own i7 6700K, first Intel CPU after a long line of AMD's. My i7 seems to be an average chip, since I can get 4,7 GHz without surpassing 1.4 V mark, while some good chips can achieve 4,8 or even 4,9 GHz.

thanks for joining the crew here! hope you will share and enjoy here as much as possible, feel free to came up with comments and opinions here !

i'll swap mi system this year, 1151, having on plans 5.0GHz on a wonderful 6700K, still deciding about motherboard, and ram, but still have time, so opinions are welcomed!

Regards,

 

[Kanan]

thanks for joining the crew here! hope you will share and enjoy here as much as possible, feel free to came up with comments and opinions here !

i'll swap mi system this year, 1151, having on plans 5.0GHz on a wonderful 6700K, still deciding about motherboard, and ram, but still have time, so opinions are welcomed!

Regards,

Yeah go for Ryzen even if this is anti topic, it will be a lot better for the price, more cores. At least if the rumour hype train isn't crashing

 

[peche]

Yeah go for Ryzen even if this is anti topic, it will be a lot better for the price, more cores. At least if the rumour hype train isn't crashing

i rather to get back to a Pentium 4 without HT than getting AMD's garbage....

 

[Kanan]

i rather to get back to a Pentium 4 without HT than getting AMD's garbage....

What's your problem?

 

[peche]

What's your problem?

no one, im here sitting on my happiness, and pretty excited to start my new build with another core i7! no problems so far!

Regards,

 

[FireFox]

I own i7 6700K

I owned a 6700K, bought it in November but in January i bought a 7700K, the 6700K was the worst CPU i ever had, max OC was 4.6GHz 1.364V, i did all possible settings/tweak but i never got it to work above 4.6GHz, i tried 1.40V/1.45V/1.50V but nothing worked it just refused to OC higher, it was a Nightmare.

 

[Komshija]

thanks for joining the crew here! hope you will share and enjoy here as much as possible, feel free to came up with comments and opinions here !

i'll swap mi system this year, 1151, having on plans 5.0GHz on a wonderful 6700K, still deciding about motherboard, and ram, but still have time, so opinions are welcomed!

Regards,

Your i7 3770 is still quite a powerful CPU. If you plan to buy a new (unused) i7 6700K, good luck finding one which can hit 5,0 GHz. Very, very few i7 6700K's are capable to achieve stable 4,9 and 5,0 GHz OC without surpassing 1,42V.
Average i7 6700K should achieve stable 4,6GHz@1,35V while good examples should reach 4,7 GHz without surpassing 1,365V. My needs minimum 1,375V for 4,7 GHz to pass 30-minute Prime95; it is possible that I would need 1,38V for marathon 12-hour test but I don't want to torture my CPU that much. Very rare gold samples are capable to reach 4,7 GHz without surpassing 1,35V mark.
The funniest thing when I OC'ed my i7 6700K to 4,7 GHz@1,365V is that everything forked fine for a few days without crashes, freezes or blue screens, starting from FC4, Wolfenstein TNO, several light CPU-z tests, video conversions etc, while Prime95 stopped it in a few minutes. Mine can surely reach 4,9 GHz, but I need 1,39V just to boot into OS and run light CPU-z test, since with 1,38V it failed to boot and with 1,385V it crashed after a few minutes in Windows. Note that I had XMP enabled the whole time and OC was on all cores. If nothing else, at least my i7 6700K is produced in 2016, since its second digit (bottom left side) starts with 6. Week and batch numbers are classified.

I owned a 6700K, bought it in November but in January i bought a 7700K, the 6700K was the worst CPU i ever had, max OC was 4.6GHz 1.364V, i did all possible settings/tweak but i never got it to work above 4.6GHz, i tried 1.40V/1.45V/1.50V but nothing worked it just refused to OC higher, it was a Nightmare.

There are even worse chips. I read about few "platinum examples" which need 1,4V for 4,6 GHz, while 4,4 GHz OC is their max without surpassing 1,35V. Yours i7 6700K could qualify as "Intel's finest platinum edition CPU".

 

[prasoooon]

I recently got my i7 7700k with z270 mobo...should I sell it and buy Ryzen?
Everybody is talking about its performance, so upgrading my rig AGAIN in such a short break is worth something?
Should I regret buying this combo?

 

[Komshija]

↑ No. AMD is delaying too much RX490 and Ryzen. I seriously doubt that they will arrive before june 2017, while GTX 1080 Ti and i7 7800K will be (very likely) already on the market.