Patrick: Its okay little guy take your time. (Pets i7 7700k)

A perfect demonstration of why "I have an i7" doesn't tell much about your actual specs.

It’s insane how far we’ve come. 10 years ago I’d say never touch i3 for gaming and now it’s industry norm!😊

Im still daily driving the i7 7700K with 32GB of DDR4 and a GTX 1080. Together with a fast m2 SSD, I can play all games I want - at least in 1080p.

Older Hardware comparisons are what all of us need.. I don't need to know how good a $3000 setup is.. i want to know how good my PC from 2016 is compared to a PC today That's what matters to me and many many others..

Something to note though is i3 is 20-30% more power efficient and that’s without undervolting.

I'm honestly shocked at how well the 7700k did. I was not expecting 60+fps in every title but Starfield, which is one of the worst CPU optimized titles I can think of. Would've loved to see how it fared against the dreaded Dragons Dogma II!

Iam really happy i chose i3 12100f for my first ever pc build.

Please make sure you include the CPU clock in the RTSS overlay in all your benchmarks. Useful information. 😀

I had a 7700k once. It was a fun little CPU to overclock and delid. it hit 5.2GHz with a bit of a voltage bump and 5.1GHz was the sweet spot. You'd be amazed at how small Intel's 4-core 14nm dies are.

For Fallout 4, there's a mod that properly uncaps FPS to avoid breaking physics. It's called "High FPS Physics Fix"

I always enjoy your garden shots.

The upgrade path for 7700 exists, it's called "coffee mod" where you take an 8th or 9th Gen i5 or i7 or Xeon or ES Qxxx chip, isolate some contacts, flash the BIOS and it works, not for every board but many do it fine

I scored a 6700k/mobo combo for free. Previous owner thought it was broken.

Another awesome vid Steve. Love these comparison videos 👍🏻👍🏻

i got a gaming pc with a i7 7700k for free because it wouldn't boot it was because of a bad gpu so i spent 50$ on a gtx 1060 6gig and i love it

great video. Now it's time to revisit the i5-7640X and i7-7740X

My brother is still running a 1080 and i7 6700k. Still good enough to play games. He also has 13790k and 4070ti build but only for games he can't play on his old beast.

I changed from an i7 7700k overclocked to 5ghz all core to a r7 5700x with just power limit raised to 120w ( both using my ageing gtx1080 and the same 32gb of ddr4 3600 ) and the performance uplift was nothing short of amazing .

I had a 6700k. I recently retired it into a dedicated baremetal linux box to do homelab stuff with.

I still have that i7 7700k and not going to replace it any time soon. New games are not worth the upgrade price and with my saved money i spent it on my dental health.

just repurposed my z77+970+3570k+16GB @ 1600mhz platform for my inlaws as a productivity machine. Gonna boot it up soon and take a step back in time! Love vids like these. 2013 was right around the time I built my first rig so it warms me heart to see these benches. Cheers

Fantastic comparison.

Love your videos, it makes me smile when i get notification :) you can try to delid 7700k to get past 5GHz without cooking it.

203 views in 2 minutes, bro is thriving

Just a hint for future videos, for us spec hungry people. Could you include frequency of each CPU in the Afretburner overlay?

Nice comparison

my 7700k still work well with rpcs3 on mint. Absolute garbage when i received it with really high temp. It was the first time with me trying to uncap a cpu. Since i put metal liquid behind the ihs it s running like good old wine at 5ghz. Great video!

Great video. Just shows how the modern i3 is a fantastic budget gaming cpu.

Still have a 7700k! I do plan on getting an R7 7800x3D later this year though, slowly getting the parts together. 7700k is still perfectly fine for gaming (for me at least, don't play many AAA games), but the ram/storage/CPU limitations are preventing me from doing what I want with image processing.

Really looking forward to those overclock results! If you bought one of these babies you HAD to try if it reached 5GHz as it was the first consumer CPU to do so :P I only ever had 6700K and it clocked to 4,7GHz with safe voltages for daily use. Sidegraded it to R5 3600 some years back and still going strong ;)

good video , but you forgot the CPU Temps

I still die a little inside seeing local system integrators selling "i7 gaming PCs!" at premium or near premium prices to unsuspecting buyers.

When the 7000 series intel cpus came out and amd ryzen cpus came out I ended up deciding on more cores (r5 1600) as I thought that cpus with more cores was going to be the path forward. Now I'm happy with my 5800x3d.

Running both at factory is great, but my old 7700k had a ton of OC headroom. Out of the box perfection was most of what intel was stuck on for a few generations. Would love to see a follow up with some oc tweaking. Finally upgraded to a 13700k, and my old 7700k I keep in a backup/guest pc

I just picked up a 7700k on a Maximus IX Hero board for $80 and it’s perfect for my needs. I’ll probably pick up an 12th or 13th gen i5 bundle at Micro Center when I can raise the funds.

Fntastic job Steven!

Just upgraded from the venerable i7-7700K, even in 2024 it's still very capable. Served me well for 6 years.

This is a great comparison, the last of Intels i7 4/8 flagship against what would be considered a very budget CPU. $122 vs $339 2017 price. Amazing how much has changed.

14 seconds and 2 views, bro is thriving

Fascinating to know how far the quad-core i7 has fallen. I’m keeping my i7-2600 of course, but I was a bit surprised! Only 2:30 in, but I’m hoping you did power comparisons - that might be more important at this point, in terms of Europeans needing efficiency over cost.

Man for some reason the 7700K is the only CPU I ever got REALLY excited for and I can't explain why, I think something about the super high clock speeds and quad core being still kind of rare at the time just got me so hyped for it and I still feel that love :)

Great video! I'd like to see this with a 10400 vs 7700K.

That’s a nice comparison :) 7700K overclock also pretty nicely, I guess, it would be quite closed then ;)

My brother is looking into upgrading his old i5 7500 RX 570 PC, he was convinced he only needed a used 7700K for a 2080ti (he's on a tight budget) and wouldn't budge when I asked him to look into upgrading to AM4 or at least upgrade his Intel platform, but this video finally made him change his mind. Thank you.

Thats really cool, didnt expect the 7700k to lose out by so much. Would have loved to see how it would compete with an all core OC to like 4.8 ghz but i guess this will do.

Been rocking my 7700k since release and have no motivation to upgrade it since I do not play anything too intense

Good to see how far we have come since 14nm+. Excited to see what the 15th gen will bring with Xe graphics

I was very impressed with the 10100f/10105. Almost bang-on with the 7700k. It's also available for dirt cheap. Probably one of the best value new cpus for 1080p gaming. Regularly available for $70 usd brand new or $50 usd used on Ebay. Cheaper motherboards too.

Steve, let me know if you'd like to borrow an MSI GTX 580 3GB Lightning Extreme to test out! I can post one down (I'm in Edinburgh). Re your previous video about the GTX 560, would be interesting to see just how far Fermi 2.0 can really go these days, especially when VRAM isn't quite so limited.

Might have been nice if you could see the clock speeds of both the cpus in the msi overlay.

I know you mentioned it in the video about both CPU's holding the 4070 Super back, but as someone who briefly used a 12100 with a 4070 Super while waiting for my 12600 to arrive, I can give you some idea about how much it was holding it back. I tested it in Borderlands 2 (yes I know it's an old game, it's what I was playing with a friend at the time) with the frame rate limit removed (I usually play with a 60 FPS cap, I removed it to get a general Idea about how much headroom much system has overall) and was getting about 180 FPS with the 12100, with the 12600 I'm getting about 700 FPS. So yeah, the 4070 Super is just being slightly (massively) held back, LOL!

My very first PC that I bought with my own money had a i7 7700. It was pretty good at the time and is probably still usable today. That also makes me miss my GTX 1070 from back then.

I enjoy these sorts of comparative benchmarks. As I've mentioned elsewhere, my modern platform computer is my secondary system as I bottom-feed the parts to complete it - so my main system remains a 10600k based PC. I'm really just short a decent CPU on my LGA1700 board, which I've been torturing with a G7400 for funsies (I found DDR5 ram locally, cheap for what it was - so it has 64 GB of 6000mhz that I can't even touch, LOL). I also sourced a i9 stock cooler for it, for free, from the guy who had the RAM (he downgraded, because the whole 12th gen i9 thing was overkill for the aRPGs he played, LOL. It's even worse for a cRPG guy like me!). I just haven't been able to make myself spend the bucks to buy a CPU that really, truly trumps the i5 in my older system - even when I know I have more RAM sitting in the little quiet side gaming PC. I really want to grab something 14th gen, since I can with the motherboard (oddly, a business class Q670 board that I love the green of, and - honestly - it's a pretty damn good, and stable, board). I even have the cooler, and I'm still like, "Meh, this thing is driving the 6750 just fine, still"). That 10th - 14th gen Intel situation is a bit weird to me, because I'm not sure what or when the right upgrade is coming. $200+ seems steep, especially when 10th gen Intel is still sitting at an OK point. I actually consider that generation, in retrospect, as being a point of solid stagnation for Intel - they are still performing, the 11th gen was lackluster, the 12th/13th/14th is cool and all - but the prices, the damned prices... My processor in my main system is still getting nearly a $100 in some scenarios - I got mine as part of a combo... I just want to sell this PC and upgrade, but......... Yeah. It works.

What fov settings do you use in Fallout 4? It looks great!

I still have mine at home OC to 4.8GHz because that is where I found it to be the most stable (quick and dirty) overclock I could hit. I think I maxed out ram speeds close to 3833MHz (not sure on the exact speed) but I keep them around 3600MHz for stability as well. Works well with the 1080ti I have in the system. Overall, this setup can still play every game that is available with some lowering of settings.

Great video. Just noticed your rdr2, one is vulkan one is dx12. Not sure if it makes any difference. I recently redownloaded it to test my 5gbps internet, and game still freezes for me randomly in vulkan, have yet to try dx12.

The 7700K was my first CPU, it came in a prebuilt with a 1060 and a noctua cooler. That system lasted for 6 years, the only thing I have left is the cooler that I was able to put in a SFF case

Wow this looks exactly as my old mobo+ cpu combo with the SAME cooler master cpu cooler, it was a beast. I upgraded last month finally to a i5 12th gen for better stability in VR. Still holds up great for modern games tho, I even bought it used from a office PC. Lasted me 4 years on that beast

The Ryzen 4100 and 4300G are quad core CPUs that I haven't seen tested much. Here in Denmark they retail for about 2/3rds the price of the i3-12100, so perhaps that's a comparison you could make some day?

Oh man, glad I got an i3 12100f. Already good on most use cases.

Literally on upgraded from my i7-7700K in November. Its still in use in my home, its now the base CPU for a very OP Plex server. lol.

Can't wait to experience the quad core goodness for myself. Just ordered a Q6600 for $0.99 on ebay today to slap in a 2007 Dell "Family PC" build I am doing for playing DX9 and DX10 stuff. PC itself was of course free from work.

Helldivers 2 its also pretty cpu intensive too, you should add it to the benchmarks

Im still rocking a dell 3020 SFF with 8gb ram and a i5 4570 and play world of warships on it daily but upgrading to a Lenovo V520S-08IKL SFF Desktop PC Computer Core i3 7th Gen that i got for £35......but bought the 7400 for abit more get up and go which cost £20. But i must agree with you on the 12100f,and looking around at how much a build on a budget system would cost,i was utterly shocked how little money it would take to build a all new component system ........and for each item needed the 12100 F is the most expensive part around £80

I would say the i7 did very well. Let's remember that this i7 is basically a 2015 refresh, yielding very solid performance for almost 10 years

A friend was doing a very limited budget upgrade a few years back. (Zen2 was out and Zen3 was just hitting.) Upgrading from a fx-8350 (Bulldozer 8-thread) Got him on the AM4 platform with "upgradability" as the theme. Picked to least expensive starting point to get the most out of the limited budget. Ryzen 3 3100 (4 core, 8 thread) -> benchmarks showed it at 98%-102% of the old i7-7700k Amazing little chip at a low price. ps, (He upgraded to the Ryzen 7 5800X3D when he could save up!) pps, (Same with the video card. Got a Radeon RX 6500XT - bargain basement card - then upgraded to the Radeon RX 6750XT when new budget allowed.) ppps, (I bought the old CPU and GPU from him to help him with the upgrade budget.)

Thank you very much for creating this video👍👍👍 Science experiment idea: Overclock the i7 7700k to match the i3 and rerun the tests, to see how much IPC improvement Intel has made over the years.😅 (their cache sizes might be different though...)

I figured the 7700k would have much higher power consumption but it wasn’t much more! Cool comparison, I’m still running 7500 i5s for my UNRAID backup servers.

My takeaway from this is that people who still have their i7-7700K on a decent z170 still don't need to upgrade their CPU for gaming. Mine overclocked to a solid 4.6ghz without messing with voltages no problem at all.

Have the i7 7700k bought it on launch day using it since. I have a asus mobo that offers me some nice OC profiles but the best OC i managed was 5.0 ghz and the temps with Noctua NH d-14 reached about 68 avg 80 -82 degrees celsius on some demanding game titles and big workloads (work related) but these days I only keep it stock so as the ram since I do not need more performance than it can offer on non oc profile even the ram i keep them on 2133 mhz . It stil offers me enough performance for the games i play and for work, at decent power consumption and keeping it stock the fans are quiet enough to keep me happy still also have 32 gb of ram 2 m2 ssds and gtx 1080ti using them on 3440x1440 monitor.

F4SE and the physics fix are both updated, you can go ahead and fix your Fallout 4 install now.

Up until about 6 months ago I was running an i7 7700 (non-k) in my HTPC, which I occasionally gamed on. It was surprisingly good. I have since built a new machine with an overclocked/undervolted i7 12700KF, and it shreds the old i7.

They're both 4 cores/8 threads, 12 MB vs 8MB of cache memory, the boost clock is 4.3 GHz vs 4.5 GHz. And yet, the model 5 years younger wins quite substantially. It's impressive that Intel made that progress. Great idea for the video, I expected much closer results.

I was thinking of replacing my Haswell machines with something newer, yet affordable, while keeping the DDR3. Your video got me thinking: maybe I can find a Z170 board for a fair price...

12th gen intel CPUs is the best release from intel in decade. great efficiency and performance. unlike 13th,14th gen.

Maybe do a similar video with the R3 3100/3300x 👍

I love this video since my kids have a 2012 dual core laptop and it's incredibly slow. I am trying to build a cheap used PC for them due to budget.

i had this cpu paired with an asrock z270 k6 and 16gb of corsair red led 3200 c16 , since my country's prices are so bad i was able to sell them when 12th gen went into the market and with only the money i got from the sale i was able to buy myself a 12400F + Gskill 16GB DDR4 RGB + B660 Plus D4 motherboard. Basically a free upgrade.

It’s crazy how smooth is the rendering with i7 7700K! My temporary i5 6600K + 4070 Super build has stuttering problems in any modern game

I like how you just throw your stuff in the dirt and rocks! 👍

I'm not an intel fan but looking to buy the i3 12100 end of the month as i saw a good bundle deal and it runs games decently paired with a good gpu

I think you should try to compare these two CPU with PCIe Gen 3 GPU, the I7 got limited to run RTX 4070 Super 'cause of that PCIe Gen 4. But I7 look's so cool here tho....

will you ever use space engine to benchmark test? its very demanding on gpus specially with LOD amped up.

I recently sidegraded from R3 3300X (4 cores 8 threads) to R5 3500 (6 cores 6 threads) for testing purposes and I was surprised by how much the reduction in number of threads hampers the machine when mutlitasking. All in all the CPUs should be able to plow through roughly the same amount of work, but the 3300X was a noticable smoother experience on the whole. I was sure I wouldn't be able to distinguish the difference between them beforehand, but I was wrong. A good 4/8 CPU is certainly usable in many scenarios today, but 6/6 are no longer as usable on Windows 11. I'm not updated on how many models with 6/6 have been made the last years, but hopefully they are few and far between. Just an interesting obsevation since you are testing how well 4/8 is working now.

I was looking forward to seeing the performance of the i7 7700k when overclocked in this video. I wondered if its gaming performance when overclocked would be on par with the i3 12100F. What do you think?

I would very much like to see a raytracing on/off version of this video, I find that as soon as I start to dabble with any kind of RT my 8700k is screaming at me, so would be interesting to see how much better a newer architecture would handle it with the same GPU.

I’m still rocking a Xeon 5580 from the Lga 1366 socket

Way to get me worried ahaha Got a 6 core last year

Bought one at launch and it served me well but after upgrading to 1440p, it wasn't really cutting it. Got a good deal on a 12900k & the 7700k is now in my sister's PC along with my old 1070Ti.

Hi, i love your videos. Can you test an i5 11400f in 2024 because i was thinking of upgrading to an i5 11400f with rx 6600 from my i3 10100f and gtx 1050 ti. Also can you help me decide whether i should upgrade to an i5 11th gen or just build a new system with r5 7500f and ddr5??

Would be interesting to see how a budget ryzen system compares

My 2020 i3 10100f was giving around the same performance as i7 7700. Overclocked 7700k might have higher performance but it is insane that they were just 3 generations seperated

The 7700K and a 1080 was my first build back then. Good times.

50W in gaming for a 7700K is extremely surprising ! Do you know what settings did you use in your BIOS ? It seems crazy low.

I built my pc 8 years ago and put in a 6700k, which performs identical to the 7700k. Now that new i3 chips walk circles around it, I'm finally considering upgrading

the i7 7700K is the GTX 1080 Ti of CPUs!

For CPU benchmark try something like Assetto Corsa in single player or CS2 bot matches.

I used a 7700k as my main system until last year... now I'm on the 13900k. I still have the system as an emergency PC. I did end up having some issues with it in the last few years after I installed a RTX 3070 (lots of Video Memory BSODs), never really got to the bottom of what the issue was, but all I know is that the 7700K worked perfectly with the GTX 980 afterwards and I haven't had the issues with the 3070 in the 13900k.

I'd be really interested in how they fare comparatively in overclocking.