Review on Intel Core i7-10700KF 8-Core Desktop Processor - Unlocked, LGA1200, up to 5.1 GHz, 125W without Processor Graphics. by Adam Woods ᠌

Name: Intel Core i7-10700KF 8-Core Desktop Processor - Unlocked, LGA1200, up to 5.1 GHz, 125W without Processor Graphics.
Item: Intel Core i7-10700KF 8-Core Desktop Processor - Unlocked, LGA1200, up to 5.1 GHz, 125W without Processor Graphics.
Rating: 5

July 04, 2023

A great option for this money, one of the best offers.

(02/14/2022): Deleted the previous comment to my review, leaving only this part:
In fact, I think that this particular instance can easily take 5.3 on AVX instructions and 5.4. without AVX on custom water, but . scary.
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After six months of testing, I was not disappointed in the stone; rather, I adjusted my testing methodology. As a result, it turned out to take 5.1Ghz / 47cache / LLC5 / Vcore 1.3 (idle) -1.2 (load) in air at a room temperature of 28 degrees, the temperature of the cores at rest was 33-34 degrees. 5.2/48 - also worked in the air, but there I could not check the stability in long tests, because the temperatures got above 85, and for me this is unacceptable in the 8-hour benchmark (Realbench). In shorter benchmarks, everything was stable, without errors, so . perhaps 5.2/48/LLC5/1.375-1.27 can be considered a frontier in the air.
5.3 / 43 - at such a high room temperature and the temperature of the cores at rest (according to my calculations, somewhere around 6-7 degrees higher than during the previous series of tests at a temperature of 25 degrees in the room) it was not possible to take.

And on the water it turned out - 5.3 / 49 / LLC5 / 1.45-1.332 - NZXT X73 push-pull, t not higher than 89
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Test system:
MP: Asus Z490 Extreme
Proc: i7-10700KF
RAM: G. Skill Trident Z Royal DDR4-3200MHz CL14-14-14-34 1.35V, (2x16GB)
Cooling: Noctua NH-D15S (instead of one complete valve, I installed 2 NFA12x25)
Video card: MSI Aero 2060 (so far, because it was taken urgently)
PSU: EVGA SuperNOVA 1600 T2
Chassis: Thermaltake WP200
Case fans: 4xBequiet Silent wings 3, High-speed (bottom, blowing), 2xFractal Design Venturi HF-14 (all blowing: 1 at the rear, 1 at the top between the main and upper compartment) - for air; the same plus 6xNoctua A12x25 on the radiator + 4Arctic P140 - for blowing out of the upper compartment of the case - for water
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Pros

No integrated graphics. And this means that at least it heats up less than its counterpart with the built-in at the same frequencies. Perhaps (in my case, definitely, but, in general, opinions differ) it runs better on boards in which all phases are assigned to the CPU. I won the silicone lottery. I would have written it in caps, but I'm not sure that in this case the review will be missed. 1) The option I've settled on for now.5.2. Ghz, LLC7, without AVX (1.28 - at rest; 1.252 - in load): - Realbench +: temperatures around 70, I didn't even write) - Cinebench 15+: 2107 - CPU-Z+ (temperatures 70 and below) - Heavyload: +: 65 and below - OCCT+ (Small, no AVX): 80 is the hottest core, 75 is the coldest - Prime 95 + (112 FFT, I heard somewhere that it is good for checking VCCIO and VCCSA): see OCCT for temperatures - - Cinebench R20+: 5106 (75 coldest, 79 hottest), 180W - Prime 95 +(Small FFT, 15 minutes): 77 coldest core, 82 hottest, 194W - Prime 95+ (1 hour with Derbauer settings (taken from 9900K overclocking video): 78-83, 190W - AIDA Fpu + (15 minutes, one tick, it loads the most percent): 72-85 (weird test), 184W - AIDA Cache + (passed just in case, because I also read that it’s a good check for non-obvious jambs) 2) AVX instructions: 5.1. LLC6, 1.31 at start (at rest) - 120227 in load. 252W, temperatures 83-88 (Prime 95, with all AVX checkboxes, 15 minutes) 5.2. AVX in terms of voltage can be taken easily, but in terms of temperatures, I was already approaching a hundred. In principle, I could push the temperature limit to 105 and pass the test, but I decided not to mock silicone. The voltage for this frequency lies somewhere in the region of 1.38-1.4. at the start, at 1.37 crash, at 1.4. at the start it turned out 1.298 in the load (LLC6), but overheating. I'll add the rest in the comments. But against the background of what I saw in the reviews of this processor and expected - I'm happy as an elephant. Or a herd of elephants.

Cons

No integrated graphics. When I bought it, I knew what I was giving up and for what. But still . if the video card flies, the system will fall with it, if there is no spare wheel. Actually, in the month of May of this year, I experienced it, but on the old system, there was also no integrated graphics. Unpleasant. Otherwise, zero complaints. I took the boxed version of the processor to minimize the likelihood of damage to the processor. And after the overclocking results, I generally feel that a piece of gold has come to me.