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

So as not to get confused, I’ll say right away that I’m writing about 3770, without K / T / S. I took it to work in various programs, to replace the Pentium G630, which was originally taken as a plug, but it turned out that it was enough for almost everything, except for virtual machines and video processing, as a result, the Pentium served for more than a year, and now it is resting. I took exactly 3770 without K, since I don’t need a K cut without VTd (I’m not a gamer, yeah - there’s not even a FB). Mother ASRock Z86 Pro3-M (took two years ago for 3 sput). The bios was ated a long time ago, for other reasons (yes, the quality of current bios leaves much to be desired). There were no problems with the installation of 3770, but there was a cooling problem. The boxed cooler left over from the Pentium (65W) and keeping it at 60 degrees in Linx, the 3770 allowed it to go over 100C into throttling. I had to buy TR TS 120M, it confidently keeps the temperature of 3770 in Linx AVX no higher than 75C. By the way, the percent is slightly overclocked by the multiplier - from 3400 MHz of the standard ones to 4100, on all 4 cores in the load. On two cores, it steams up to 4300. In idle, the temperature of the processors (both G630 and 3770) is 30-35C, at room temperature 25-26. Did I notice a speed boost compared to the G630? Yes and no. It seems that the systems (WIn7 & Slackware13) have become more responsive, there are no sticking when switching tasks. Compiling from source has also become faster. Installing programs is also clearly faster. But my main brake is a screw. No SSD yet. And without it, all the tales of super-duper performance are broken by random disk reading (8 GB of memory, swap is turned off). Here, when switching from P4 / 1GB DDR to G630 / 8GB DDR3, the increase was . Does it make sense to take Ci7 for games / home / office instead of Ci5 or any AMD 4-core? NO! The main thing is that there are 4 cores. For games, you still need a VC 2-3 times more expensive than a processor, and at least 2x 4GB of memory. Everything else, if any, needs to be spent (in order) on SSD (128-256 GB), PSU standards (within 400-700W and no more than $ 100) and cooling (including housing standards). This is the optimal recipe for the beginning of 2022, and there is a suspicion that it will remain so for more than one year .