Overclocking
Overclocking on Kaby Lake can be easily achieved much like how it was done on Skylake. All you have to do is up your multiplier and CPU Core voltage accordingly. Intel has made higher overclocks possible with Kaby Lake. This chip runs at 4.2 GHz, but I was able to get it up to 5.0 GHz by upping the frequency and VCore voltage to 1.4V. This was a 100% stable overclock.
5.0 GHz is quite good for this chip! We’ve seen people get anywhere between 4.8 – 5.2 GHz depending on their setup and chip they have.
Here are some benchmarks showing the performance difference if you plan to overclock your system.
I don’t think this is a great value. I’d suggest either saving $100 and getting a Pentium G4560 for $65, which also has hyperthreading, or spending a little more getting a proper quad core.
Pretty much every i5-7xxx and down processors have been rendered obsolete with Ryzen on the horizon anyway. Why someone would want to buy an i5, i3 or pentium right now is simply baffling, much less a dual core, even with HT. Might as well wait a month and put 30 more bucks on an AMD Ryzen 5 1400X 4c/8t or the same dollars on the 1300.
AMD shill detected. We won’t know anything for sure until release day, when the reviews come out.
Strawman logical fallacy detected.
There’s plenty of reliable data availlable yet, especially from passmark… Just search the baselines yourself on the latest version for ryzen and amd engineering sample or ryzen serials. We also saw pretty solid evidence from Cinebench R15 runs and other reliable sources… But yeah, we’ll only know for sure when the NDA lifts, altho, early evidence suggests a wait and see approach instead of a blindly buy because you’re too impatient approach.
You don’t know what a strawman is. Passmark and most synthetic benchmarks =/= real world testing or even close. Your so-called “reliable sources” are WTFTech and DGLee-esque shill fantasies.
Fine, you don’t want to discuss this rationally and just blanket deny as well as display an arrogant ignorance for the sake of protecting some cognitive dissonance, soothe yourself. 🙂