Intel Core i7 2700k Review

We reran a few tests at the maximum overclock of 5ghz, comparing against other overclocked settings we achieved from various systems in recent months.

A score of 9.73 is a new Kitguru record for a 4 physical core processor, absolutely annihilating the 8 core FX 8150 at 4.8ghz, which scored 7.68 points.

The Core i7 2700k at 5ghz returns an encoding time of 8 minutes and 28 seconds, without hardware GPU acceleration. This is the new benchmark figure for raw processor performance and is over 2 minutes faster than the reference clock speeds.

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