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when preparing for the KB Lake launch prior to embargo lifts the I 373 50 K had up the most interested for Intel's upcoming platform the 72 50 K is the first overclockable i3 that intel has shipped to the enthusiast market and reminds us in some ways of intel's at g3 to five eighth anniversary edition pentium that overclocked so well this time though it's a dual core quad thread cpu that stands to displace some of intel's own a low-end i5 market will be benchmarking an overclocking the 73 50k in today's review find out how well it positions itself before we get into that this coverage is brought to you by our patreon backers over at patreon.com slash gamers nexus you can help us out there and it's a direct contribution so there's no better way to support the channel if you like this type of coverage the i3 72 50k has a few important specifications of note one of them of course it's a to physical core CPU but has four threads so its reliant on hyper threading for the rest and in terms of clock rate there's no turbo boost on this one it's just a hard fix number four point two gigahertz which is higher than the base clock of the i5 7600 k but the boost is of course where it's at for that processor because it does actually have boost functionality cache is also a bit different and is another major point of differentiation the i3 70 to 50 k has four megabytes of intel's at smart cache where the i5 k skew cpu has six megabytes or two extra and the i7 case q has eight megabytes so it's four six eight pretty easy all of this also means that until you overclock it you can expect the 7350 k to run at a lower power consumption that it's more expensive KS you brethren the 60 watt TDP is an indicator that smaller coolers can also be used to keep the starting to busy k under control so it's $180 price point suggest that you might really be better off overclocking this thing and putting it under a good cooler that's more worthwhile this isn't positioned like the i7 case qcb is where people buy it and use it just to sort of quote have the best because it's not the best and it's a case Q and it's $180 and it's an i3 so in order to get any value out of this then you really should only be buying it if you're going during overclocking don't even bother if you're just going to throw it in the system in the hopes that maybe one day you might want to in terms of architecture the 14 nanometer plus branding for the process all that stuff it's all the same the specs are mostly the same everywhere else except where we've already listed the differences and architecture hasn't changed from the 7700 K review so if you're interested to learn more about the under line parts of the cpu and check out the 7700 K review it's the same thing that doesn't change testing methodology as always the link in the description below has be full written review and more importantly an entire page dedicated to testing methods that were used for this processor if you're confused or curious about what motherboard memory drivers video card any of that stuff that we used for the testing check the article each platform is defined there with regards the CPU present we're now more or less finishing the Intel i3 - i7 stack for testing so we'll next we move into ad and the FX CPUs to the bench we've already tested the 83 17 we'll be adding a few more after that so keep an eye out for the imminent Zen review each addition of a skew takes considerable amount of time hence why we've been adding them incrementally the thermals we're seeing the I 370 350 K operated around 65 Celsius when under these same AVX intensive workload as the 7700 K and 7600 K is shown in the table on the screen now the 70 250 K has power draw close to 60 watch when under load and we're operating at the same one point 275 or there abouts fixed voltage as in the other test it's not necessary to use the kraken X 62 at max rpms that we're using to cool this CPU you'd be able to keep the 73 hook EK under control with a wide variety of simpler air coolers making this chip much easier to work with then it's hotter counterpart and just sort of a side note here thermals are really important is this is the kind of thing that people skip over a lot but temperature especially with KB Lake is something that you should be paying attention to because it's a little bit higher than skylake we've seen on average how there's chip-to-chip variants always so not as big enough sample size to make a definitive statement but on average we're seeing six to seven Celsius hotter than the counterparts from the previous generation and although that's not murderous if your motherboard is running a high V core auto and you're not going to change it then that's a problem gigabyte just fix this issue with their gaming seven board they're good now but previously was about one point four volts - I so you're going to run really hot and it's not necessarily the chips fault it could be the motherboard and Auto V core but the processor itself doesn't matter as well because the Tim used on these new KB Lake CPUs is not impressive starting off with blender for the benchmarks and we custom render benchmarks that we made in the house where we are rendering various monkey heads with different effects applied we're seeing the i3 73 50k at 4.2 gigahertz stock completely seen render in about 91 minutes so that's lower than the overclocked 2500 K and faster than the AI 535 70 K stock compared to the previous generation i3 we're seeing an improvement of about nine minutes or roughly 9% reduction in total render time required for comparison the i-5 7600 K it lands us at around sixty eight minutes pre overclocked with a 7700 K chart topping at 42 minutes pre overclocked overclocking the i3 70 to 50 K won't get us to the top of the chart of course because this is a thread limited test but our 5.0 gigahertz OC gets us about seventy eight point three minutes required to render the scene a reduction of about sixteen to seventeen percent in total render time from the stock version of the i3 case Q this also lands us ahead of the i5 4690k a stock CPU and just under the stock i7 2600 this new i3 case Q is on par with a5 generation old i7 which really is not bad considering the workload is thread intensive in frequency only helps us so much to throw some standardized synthetics in here at Cinebench post the 70 to 50 K just below the I 535 70 K is stock CPU going for 66.5 cv marks though the i3 has stronger single core performance thanks to the boosted frequency the i3 6300 last gen CPU that we had on hand is awarded for 22 cv marks or 163 for single threaded performance after overclock in the new i3 70 250 K KB Lake CPU to 5.0 it's with a 1.35 beak or wheel and just below the overclocked 2500 K at 4.5 gigahertz for multi-core performance so that's well ahead and single core performance and also below the i5 4690k stock CPU for 3dmark and times 5 benchmarks we've got fire strike and time spy in the article link list written below on the website you can find those charts there if you want more standardized and comparable paths to check maybe how your current system compares to an upgraded one but now we're going to roll into watchdogs to and some other gaming benchmarks watchdogs to is one of the most thread intensive modern games we've looked at yet showing significant performance benefits with the hyper threaded i7 CPU is over even higher clock I 5 CPUs the i3 then should comparatively struggle with this game and it sort of does what's the 73 to TK stock CPU operating around at 67 FPS average compared both to the performance of the Ivy Bridge I 535 7ek quad-core from a few years ago looking elsewhere on the bench we see the 70 to 50 K operates at around 20 FPS slower than the stock I 570 600 K or percentage reduction of almost 30 percent and it's nearly two times flowers on the i7 7700 K for this particular game most gtx 1060 and RX for a TDP purchases and ops at 1070 1080 would be bottlenecked by an i3 Sony 350 K but again that is game specific and not a blanket statement applies everything overclocking with CPU gets us an extra couple FPS but we're more thread limited again in this particular title then clock limited so there's only so much we can actually do so we're at least seeing a market at 10 FPS improvement over the i3 6300 from skylake that will kill one places the 72 50k CV at around 124 FPS average with lows tightly times in the 70 to 80 FPS range even the i3 6300 can keep up pretty well with lows again in the same range although both CPUs are technically bottleneck in a GTX 1080 they're not really posting a significant bottleneck threats to more realistic cards paired for the platform again like a 1050 or 480 the i3 73 50k ends up right around where the i5 35 70 K is has annoying mix of numbers from a few generations ago and not far below and i5 4690k from the more modern era of Intel CPUs as a reminder on tour Warhammer this game is a bit more variable and its performance than we're used to with the low frame time metrics so those numbers aren't our driving factor for performance in these benchmarks so for CDs have team they normally aren't moving the total war Warhammer then the AI 323 ZK stock costs only marginal improvements over the ICC 300 stock with a former scoring around 122 FPS average and 72 FPS 64 FPS for the lows while the latter lands at 114 FPS average and 66 fps or 59 FPS for the load using the AI 373 50k as it should be used that is overclocked in at the 5 gigahertz we see a significant performance gain up to 140 F gasps average with lows now in the 70 to 80 FPS range that's a gain of about 15% from an overclocked not bad and puts us nearly in the performance range of an i5 4690k stock finally the ashes of the singularity CPU bound benchmark on high is abusive and is more meant to give us a hierarchy than useful FPS metric since we're more or less ignoring the existence of a GPU the AI 372 50k stock CPU lens just below the 4.5 gigahertz overclocked i-5 2500 K on the chart and just above the 35 70 K stock CPU overclocking the 72 TK gets us up to about on par performance with the i7 2670 PU and just below the i-5 6600 K again not bad hierarchical placement for an i3 CPU especially considering the power of the previous gens we're comparing to we were only able to stabilize an overclock of around 5.0 gigahertz and that's with a 1.3 5v core setting manually and couldn't really push higher without doing something more extreme and more tuning intensive still 5 gigahertz for an i3 isn't anything to laugh at and the performance scaling overall isn't bad post overclocked just a few games where it's less exciting than others like watchdogs because we're so thread limited in that particular title still this CPU has a lot more hips and requirements attached with only previous cable HCPs that we've looked at for this generation primarily the IC 73 50k again is a CPU that you should absolutely not purchase unless you're planning to overclock it basically on day one if this is one of those I might overclock it one day and would like that functionality don't buy it because chances are you won't and the performance for the price is not that great if you overclock it the argument gets a lot better but still at a hundred and eighty dollars it's a huge amount to ask for for an i3 even an overclocking one at $180 you're approaching non-case qi5 territory like the i-5 7500 9k which is about two hundred four dollars and other i3 CPUs are significantly less 150 to 165 the i3 70 to 50k feels like it should be priced at around the 165 mark that's what the 1k unit pricing is and that's probably what the consumer pricing should be because that's just where the value is better so this wasn't as exciting as say a $60 penny mg three two five eight that was a fun ship to buy for 60 bucks and push it with overclocking and see what kind of performance you get because you really couldn't be bit mad at that point for $60 like who cares you get a year or two out of it and you move on and it's really not a bad chip if you're trying to tie yourself over this one is out of that well out of that range three times more than that was of course more powerful it's got more cores it's got better staying power in the future with the thread difference that it has but that doesn't make it a good purchase at 180 so kind of over all the opinions here would be if you are planning to overclock and you cannot afford for some reason the 7600 K then it's maybe worth buying to play around with but there are Pentiums out there too that we will be looking at soon hopefully and this just kind of lands in a very weird price point between a pretty good CPU that will handle just about any game and true budget CPUs that have more priced friendly markups and positioning in the market so that's all for this one hopefully the numbers help you figure out if it's worth it for you definitely overclock if you buy it we've got Rison coming up eventually soon TM so maybe wait around for that I haven't tested it it's not being coy we just we haven't tested it so give it away if you can subscribe for more information at patreon and the post roll video or patreon.com/lenguin for the full article thank you for watching I'll see you all next time you