Review on Powerful Intel Core i7-3770K Quad-Core Processor with 8MB Cache and LGA 1155 Compatibility - BX80637I73770K by Doyun Siu ᠌

Name: Powerful Intel Core i7-3770K Quad-Core Processor with 8MB Cache and LGA 1155 Compatibility - BX80637I73770K
Item: Powerful Intel Core i7-3770K Quad-Core Processor with 8MB Cache and LGA 1155 Compatibility - BX80637I73770K
Rating: 5

October 21, 2022

Great quality, happy with it one hundred percent!

- Windows 7.8 score at 4500 Mhz. Under the cover is thermal paste instead of solder. He removed the thermal distributor and applied liquid metal under the cover, as a result, the temperature dropped sharply and is always low.

Used thermal paste for a banal reason - cheaper. If you have the money, then you can buy more expensive CPUs from Intel on socket 2022 - they use high-performance solder.

Compatible with 1155-pin motherboard sockets with new chipsets: B75, Q77, H77, Z75 and Z77, as well as with old H61, H67, P67 and Z68 after BIOS ate (almost all manufacturers have declared support and new BIOS versions are available for downloads). Motherboards with Q65, Q67 and B65 chipsets do not support this processor.

Conclusion: I recommend the processor!

Pros

1 energy efficiency; 2 possibility of overclocking; 3 is enough for all games; 4 integrated graphics is enough for FullHD video and games at medium settings.

Cons

When assembling on motherboards with old chipsets (released earlier, but with now announced support), BIOS firmware may be required. As far as I know, for this you will have to get another processor that the board already supports, or contact a service center where this can be done even without a processor (with a special device - a programmer). As it became known, the area of the crystal and the type of thermal interface between the crystal and the lid have changed. Perhaps, in combination with the features of the new transistor architecture (with a vertically located gate), this was the reason for the decrease in the overclocking potential of these processors.