Core i7-7700K CPU by Intel Review

How We Tested

During our benchmarking sessions, we used the configuration listed below. Between our benchmarking sessions, the only variable devicand was the CPU being tested, besides the motherboard and memory, which had to be replaced to match the different CPUs.
Hardware Configuration

• Motherboard: Gigabyte AORUS Z270X-Gaming 7
• Memory: 16 GiB DDR4-2133, two G.Skill Ripjaws V F4-2133C15D-16GVR 8 GiB memory modules configured at 2133 MHz
• Boot drive: WD Blue 1,000 GiB SSD
• Video Card: GeForce GTX 1080 (on games), integrated video on the other tests
• Video Monitor: Philips 236VL
• Power Supply: Corsair VS500

Operating System Configuration

• Windows 10 Home 64-bit
• NTFS
• Video resolution: 1920 x 1080 60 Hz

Driver Versions

• NVIDIA driver version: 378.49

Software Used

• 3DMark 1.5.915
• Cinebench R15
• CPU-Z 1.78
• DivX 10.6
• Media Espresso 6.7
• PCMark 8
• Photoshop CC
• WinRAR 4.2
• Dirt Rally
• GTA V
• Hitman
• Mad Max
• Rise of the Tomb Rider

Error Margin
We adopted a 3% error margin. Thus, differences below 3% cannot be considered relevant. In other words, products with a performance difference below 3% should be considered as having similar performance.