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what's up guys welcome back to the channel today I am SuperDuper excited because I have a brand new chip from Intel that just arrived on my doorstep yesterday after I came back from CES this is the core i3 73 50k and it's very exciting processor right now because it's a core i3 chip that is fully unlocked it has an unlock multiplier and it supports hyper threading this is really exciting stuff because up until now we have not seen a chip of this caliber the thing that comes closest to it as of late is the pentium g 32:58 which was the anniversary edition chip from intel that kind of paid homage to the old days of overclocking when you could buy a budget chip and still push the clock speed quite far so the pentium g 32:58 had a lot of things going for it for one it was dirt cheap $75 MSRP what there abouts which is way cheaper than this $180 which is still fairly budget oriented but yeah it was dirt cheap and also a great overclocker I was seeing review websites hit or get 1 gigahertz gains with relatively little effort the other problem though with the G 32:58 is that it was not hyper threaded it only had two cores and that was it so it did while it did really well in single threaded applications it kind of took a backseat when it came to multi-threaded programs like rendering for example and I'm curious to see how much how far the hyper threading actually goes for a chip like the 73 50k here the other thing is that the the G 32 58 didn't have the most cash it had three megabytes of l3 cache compared to fora on this chip which doesn't seem like a huge boost but it actually is 33% increase in cache means there's more data that can be stored to the internal cache here for really quick access and that could be a huge bottleneck if you don't have enough of it so I'm also curious to see how that affects our gaming performance and our rendering performance in today's tests now the other thing to note about this guy is that it comes 4.2 gigahertz out of the box and again with KB Lake family I'm expecting at least 4.9 possibly 5 gigahertz on a manual overclock in the BIOS which would be pretty sweet again that would help us a lot with single-threaded applications but when it comes to multi-threaded apps we're gonna see how far these extra threads these four threads can actually take us and we're gonna be comparing this chip to the core i5 6600 cave that's only because I don't physically have a 7600 hey on hand which is the skylake equip I'm sorry the the KB Lake equivalent to the 6600 K both core i5s however the performance difference between those chips should be very marginal and so comparing this to the 6600 K should still give us a pretty good idea of how close we get in terms of performance coming from a 180 dollar I 3 to a 250 dollar I 5 within kv light now a final note of mentioned before we dive into the testing hardware is that this chip is only rocking a 60 watt TDP so it's fairly power efficient and on top of that when we're dealing with only 2 cores on the die we actually have a lot less heat to deal with inside of the overall package which is going to be really good for potentially overclocking we have a bit more thermal Headroom in that in that degree pun intended and we also don't have as much requirement in terms of our CPU cooler so you might actually even be able to save a little bit money get getting like a 25 $30 cooler to slap on this guy as opposed to maybe having a water cooling solution or an AIO on top of a core i5 for example if you are going to be overclocking on that note so let's go ahead and take a look at the testing hardware that we have over there because lord knows I don't want to spoil you guys with my beautiful face all day so this be the test incentive that we be rockin make a yar so you can see here we've got a brand new z2 70 bore this is the Asus tough Z 270 mark 1 very nice-looking motherboard by the way that is gonna be rockin of course gtx 1060 that is a founders edition from nvidia now this is running stock this is gonna be running stock throughout the entire video as far as memory goes we've got 16 gigs of Corsair Vengeance lpx that is the low profile stuff at 3200 megahertz and right now we're actually got that I got the 6600 K in there humming it's purring purring like a tiger it's 4.60 Hertz over collect and we've got it being cooled by a Corsair h100 I GTX v2 that's that's that's right right I think they're the names on their coolers get more and more confusing we've also got a 750 watt power supply the HX series from Corsair this is the original power supply used in my first ever build back in 2011 but it's still working power supply it works pretty nice and then we've got a 1 terabyte crucial MX 200 right here with our OS and games and everything else so that's pretty much what we're looking at right now guys you can see I've got you in heaven just kind of warming things up right now on the test fit and let's go ahead and just rock rock this I'm gonna go run all the tests we've got three three or four games and synthetic or two and some rendering tests so I'm gonna fire those up and then I'm gonna go ahead and just swap out the 73 50k I'm gonna put the 73 50 where is it where is it oh god I thought I lost you so scared said not gonna do that again after the 60 600k gets all tested we're gonna go ahead and slide in the 73 50k I'm gonna go ahead and overclock the crap out of it and I'm gonna circle back to you guys and let you know what kind of clock speeds I was able to get away with this beautiful core i3 oh yeah oh yeah it's coming it's gone oh alright y'all the 73 50k has been installed I have given it a hefty overclock to 5 gigahertz holy moly that is pretty sweet the the voltage that I dialed in was 1.4 - very similar to some other review sites that have already posted the reviews on this chip it's reading the core of Eid the core vid is 1.1 goes to it fluctuates between 1.1 and 1.2 as of now we are rendering in W Premiere Pro I threw in a five-minute 4k clip at 32 megabits per second bitrate and you can see here we've got all four we got we got both chorus and on all four threads that are just freakin maxed out at 100% so this is taxing the CPU pretty much across the board and you can see the rendering going down going down right there pretty smoothly that is a very small sneak preview of a sketch that I've got coming out very soon but yeah so far it's looking pretty good the overclock is just absolutely beastly and of course when you're dealing with fewer cores it allows you to hit higher clock speeds on those said cores so that's why a lot of these villages the overclocking world records you'll see that the highest frequencies hit are on single core now if you guys look over here in Hardware monitor you can see that this is still an engineering sample for sure it's not even being picked up it just says Intel processor there's no SKU available and because of that it's only showing our frequencies and our utilization there is no temperature readout here so unfortunately I don't really I can't give you guys any temperatures right now I can assure you that they're probably not going to be as hot as the 6600 K but so far the PC hasn't caught on fire over there so I think we're in good shape I'm going to finish rendering out this video we're going to run the rest of our benchmarks and we'll be ready to compare the rows to our core i5 and draw some conclusions about our 7350 k alright y'all the results are in let's go ahead and see how these two cpus stack up against each other in our tests the first test was 3dmark fire strike extreme it's a very consistent benchmark from run to run and so with the core i3 we got a score of five thousand five hundred and fifty-eight and the core i5 6600 k received a score of five thousand six hundred and fifty six there's really not too much of a wide gap there so that's a good start for the core i3 so far but in my experience 3dmark fire strike does not always tell the full story in terms of real-world gaming performance so the first game that we actually tested was doom and all the tests that I ran for gaming anyway were tested at 1920 by 1080 with ultra settings doom saw a frame rate of 103 on both systems whether it was rockin the core i3 or the core i5 we got 103 frames per second on average which really excited me at first because if we can see similar performance in games between the 73 50k and something like the 6600 K then why the hell aren't we just buying I threes at this point and just saying screw the suit 7600 K because there's hardly any bottlenecking going on but before I got too excited I did run Metro last light and saw that there was a bit of a bit bit more gap there we went from 79 frames per second with the core i3 to 84 FPS with our core i5 and that's still really not too bad that's a 6% slowdown and I would gladly take that performance hit in order to save you know 50 60 70 dollars on a core i3 chip however in our last test which was grand theft auto 5 and I always use this test when I'm benchmarking CPUs and doing CPU comparisons because it is such a CPU bound and intensive game not to say it's not GPU bound but it definitely taxes the CPU very heavily and that was quite a kicker in the gonads let me tell you we went from 48 frames per second on the core i3 to 60 FPS with our 6600 K a 20% slowdown going from 4 physical cores to 2 physical cores with hyper-threading yes there will be bottlenecking with the core i3 with this particular CPU in certain games so this could be an issue if you're trying to squeeze the most performance out of your GPU and don't want to get bottleneck by your processor maybe the core i3 isn't so hot 100% of the time in-game let's see how it didn't rendering though our first test in this category was handbrake which is very much a multi-threaded application for rendering videos in the video I used the sample clip was a three or four minute screen capture of gta5 rendered out at 1920 by 1080 using h.264 encoding and the core i5 6600 K render that in 1 minute and 58 seconds just under two minutes and the core i3 rendered out the same clip in 2 minutes and 46 seconds so we saw almost a 33% slowdown going from the core i5 to the core i3 finally with the more strenuous rendering test which you guys already got a peak of Adobe Premiere Pro rendering out a 4 minute I'm sorry a 4k five minute clip at 32 megabits per second target bitrate yielded 11 minutes and 18 seconds for the core i5 to render that out whereas the core i3 rendered it in 16 minutes and 13 seconds going from 11 to 16 minutes simply because we don't have the same number of physical cores and I think the moral of the story here is threads do not equal course having a dual core processor with hyper threading is by no stretch any match for a quad core processor with 4 physical cores when it comes to multi-threaded applications as clearly indicated by these render tests so what I would take away from all of this ladies and gentlemen is that if you have the money to spend on a core i5 unlocked CPU absolutely go for it do not try to skimp or cut corners by getting the 73 50k core i3 because it does not simply compete in the same space which makes a lot of sense if you think about it there's no way in hell that Intel would make a 180 dollar chip perform even close to its core i5 counterpart because I would essentially make it obsolete no one would buy the core i5 they could just buy something that works just as well for 70 bucks less and I think another angle to approach this from is if you did only have say 180 to 200 dollars for your CPU does it make sense to go from the core i3 7350 K to the core i5 7400 sorry someone's opening the garage door there's nothing I can do just keep rolling the core i5 7400 is a quad core chip but it is locked it doesn't have any potential headroom to go any further than it's three gigahertz out of the box frequency I think the best choice between those two CPUs is going to heavily depend on your needs as a user so if you're going to be using multi-threaded applications frequently or you're rendering videos out constantly then I would say go for the entry-level core i5 because at the end of the day even if you can't overclock it having 4 physical cores is going to be way more beneficial with those particular tasks then say having a higher number of logical cores by the way of hyper threading now conversely if you aren't using multi-threaded applications often and your main focus is on programs that utilize only one CPU core at a time then the 7350 K could make a lot of sense especially if you're on a super tight budget of around 180 dollars for your CPU not to mention overclocking this thing is a great overclocker I do want to reiterate that up to 5 gigahertz with really no other tweaking other than changing the BIOS and the multiplier which is super nice to see not to mention those higher clock speeds are going to make those single-threaded apps run a lot faster and make your day-to-day tasks just feel overall more zippy in the end but that is pretty much I think all I want to say about the core i3 7350 K guys let me know your thoughts in the comments below this is a hugely hugely talked about CPU right now on the Intel side of things I'm curious to hear what you guys have to say about it so also feel free to toss me a like on the video if you enjoyed it feel free to have fun feel free to subscribe to the channel for more tech stuff coming that you guys really soon and until we meet again I'll see y'all in the next video