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excellent intel has finally launched kb lake aka the seventh generation Core processor line which has CPUs that start with sevens instead of sixes and a whole new motherboard series and this CPU right here this is the core i7 7700 K the successor to the 6700 K and to familiarize you guys with what's new about it I thought I'd start off with a quick and simple first 5 video so here are the first 5 things that you need to know about KB Lake thing one is skylake similarities first you're going to notice a lot of similarities between 6th gen skylake and 7th gen KB Lake you've still got the same CPU socket for both LGA 1151 and they're still going to be using ddr4 memory unlocked 91 watt TDP quad cores are still available in the 7600 K without hyper threading and the 7700 K with hyper-threading and unlocked CPUs still won't come with a stock heatsink fan it's still manufactured on a 14 nanometer process and the microarchitecture is also still the same albeit optimised more on that when I get to thing number 2 and this is still intel's mainstream product line meaning that more powerful hardware including 6 core and greater cpus is available to those who can afford it on intel's enthusiast platform with Broadwell ECP use and x99 chipset motherboards with the LGA 2011 - 3 socket similarities between KB link and skylake may even creep over into their performance but for that I encourage you guys to check out my benchmarking video you can click the card right up there and if it's not up right now it will be up later today neither tick nor talk Intel's tick tock product cycle is officially dead with KB Lake replaced by the less catchy three-phase pa-o method so back in the mid-2000s when AMD's original FX line of CPUs was kind of kicking intel's ass they started tick tock where every year they launched a new CPU line tick ears were for processed shrinks that made everything on the CPU smaller effectively and usually more efficient and talked years were for microarchitecture updates Keo has three parts P is for process which replaces tick a is for architecture which replaces tock and O is for optimization which means no die shrink or new architecture but optimization of the existing CPU design they ready did this kind of back in 2014 before formalizing it as PA Oh when they Devil's Canyon line of CPUs launch that were sort of a new line of CPUs but were really just a refresh of Haswell as well was a talk in the cadence based on new 22 nanometer microarchitecture and launched in 2013 making has whoa refresh and optimization in 2014 it was neither a take nor talk and then Broadwell was the tick again a process shrink to 14 nanometer rod well is just a little weird because it launched like a few days or a week before skylake and it wasn't really widely marketed so that's why it's often overlooked skylake launched in august 2015 with new architecture which would have been a talk and now kb lake is an optimization so maybe next year the whole cycle can begin one more time new z2 70 motherboards so what is new with kb lake there are some new things starting with the motherboards 200 series of motherboards with the predictably named z2 70 chipset being the full-featured option that enables unlocked overclocking of your PB Lake case cube processor the chipset now provides for more pcie 3.0 lanes up to 24 total for high-speed i/o including obtain support now but more on that in thing for Intel Rapid Storage technology can also support up to three m2 PCIe devices now with Gen 3 by for connectivity so I've already spotted more m dot two slots on these z2 70 boards most of them have at least two now which is kind of nice beyond that it's just a whole new line of motherboards so there's a ton of new designs from the big manufacturers up there I have msi gigabyte and asus versions on me so far even more RGB LEDs than ever of course and hopefully this time around someone makes a good mini ITX motherboard that doesn't require end-user modifications to look halfway decent obtain if you've heard of intel's new storage technology you probably know that it's supposed to be super fast and crazy durable while not being a storage tech we're currently familiar with so it's not manned but further details are still murky at best it's shaping up to be additional system memory that sits between the CPU and system memory and the rest of your storage array so kind of like a big fast cache for your hard drives or SSDs but also blurring the line between what storage the operating system can address at any given point in time and Intel says the like CPU platforms with the requisite m2 slot are obtained ready wait is that good news or bad news obtained products aren't expected until much later in 2017 but if KB Lake is obtained ready does that mean that other platforms from Intel aren't like skylake and the 100 series of motherboards even or the enthusiast x99 masterrace god forbid now I know implementing a game-changing technology like obtain might leave some platforms behind an Intel says that the extra 4 PCIe lanes on the 200 series chips at i/o are specifically therefore obtain support but it's hard to see skylake being left behind if all it's really needed is a PCIe m2 slot and enough bandwidth or especially abroad well ECP use that has at least 28 PCIe lanes available at minimum we need more info on this to be sure but given that Intel is already working with Microsoft and Netflix on another initiative to lock you out of 4k Ultra HD content unless you have a 7th gen CPU Windows 10 and the edge browser I mean just look at this helpful chart they made showing the things that you actually do physically need to stream 4k such as a 4k panel and enough bandwidth and source material and the extra things if they apparently get to force upon you and force you to use as well yeah yeah Microsoft who doesn't need another reason to use edge and surely skylake processors don't have enough horsepower to push a 4k signal or decode an HEV see anyway skylake processors have an HEC HEV C decoder in them AMD better have a good response to this 4k nonsense but anyway my point is I wouldn't be surprised knowing that that Intel might also want to force you to buy new stuff if you want to use obtain as well they say there is an unlocked dual core patience is required though the 7350 K is thin v and I felt it needed some air time since it is decidedly different from the typical 7600 K and 7700 case cues that were pretty familiar with the 7350 K is an unlocked KB Lake dual-core CPU with hyper-threading so 2 cores and 4 threads and a base clock of 4.2 gigahertz it's a bit of a throwback to the G 32 58 and an anniversary edition the cpu the dual core without worth reading that they did on the Haswell line the 7350 que has a four megabyte cache 60 watt TDP and it should be a nice option for budget builders who want to overclock but don't want to spend well over $200 for their CPU 1000 unit pricing for the 7700 K is three hundred and thirty nine dollars per CPU and the 7600 K is two hundred forty two dollars per CPU that's from Intel just FYI unfortunately the current bulk pricing for the 70 350 K is listed at 168 US dollars per 1000 units so it's not nearly as awesomely priced as the anniversary edition ones which was less than 100 bucks you'll have to wait a bit longer to check out the 73 50 K though Intel has about forty seventh gen products that they're launching this week but the 73 50 K won't be up for sale until the end of January or possibly early February and that's all five things there's still a lot more to talk about with KB Lake though such as how does it perform and how does it overclock I have a performance testing video with the 7600 K and 7700 K it will be posted in just a few hours and of course linked if it's posted already I also have a motherboard video with JJ from Asus that will be up later today we go over a ton of the new Asus boards and CES coverage is coming at you all this 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