Intel Core i5 7640X processor review

Ricepudding

2017-07-12 09:57

If they took of a good 50-70 dollars of this chip, it would make sense about what intel said about a starting chip to get onto the x299 platform... it makes more sense than the 350 dollar i7 thats awkwardly placed anyway. Though i am still in the camp of why a quad core is on the HEDT platform

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joshk

2017-07-12 10:25

This is going more and more hilarious.Now i am waiting for i3 hedt.It is like buying 2k$ Armani suit and 2$ "starting" chinese shoes.WTF?

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Kaarme

2017-07-12 10:35

If they took of a good 50-70 dollars of this chip, it would make sense about what intel said about a starting chip to get onto the x299 platform...

I'll never understand that "starting chip" thing in the first place. Does somebody actually start to build a HEDT dream machine, and then suddenly run out of money when they are buying the most essential part of all, the CPU? If you haven't got the money, save a little longer. Good luck trying to sell this stupid chip to someone when you are finally ready to get a real HEDT processor. How much loss would you need to swallow that could have been used sensibly elsewhere? The only tiny sense would lie in somebody ending up with an X299 mobo dirt cheap, likely secondhand. Needing a CPU for it to have a whole machine, but the person would have absolutely no need for a HEDT PC, so this CPU would be perfect for reading emails, writing documents, touching photos, and browsing the net.

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BLEH!

2017-07-12 11:23

The whole platform is a mess, seriously.

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Raider0001

2017-07-12 11:35

There might be something wrong with the "Corona Ray Tracing" scores specifically i5 6600k score, according to what i'm seeing it did worse (6.49) than my 6600 non k running DDR3 look [spoiler]http://imgur.com/download/aFChnjB[/spoiler]

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Hilbert Hagedoorn

Administrator

2017-07-12 11:43

You are absolutely right in thinking that. In the end though, this is a processor review and not platform or mobo review. The 7640x is by all means not a bad proc. Contrary, it gives great game perf, offers good single threaded perf, is showing good temps and can be tweaked really well. So as a processor I can recommend it (despite the fact that I feel hexa and octa cores are the new quads). So that is why I feel it deserves a recommended award. But purely as proc. As a processor within this platform however, well I find it to be a puzzling mess. And that I mentioned rather clearly in the conclusion. But sure, I hear and can understand what you are saying.

I am puzzled with the "Guru3D recommended" badge in the end of the article. I could understand or maybe swallow the cbeing recommended, but this? On a 299 platform?

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Robbo9999

2017-07-12 11:52

Wow, this processor makes EVEN less sense than the i7-7740X - didn't think that was ever gonna be possible! Ha!

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rl66

2017-07-12 12:21

This is going more and more hilarious.Now i am waiting for i3 hedt.It is like buying 2k$ Armani suit and 2$ "starting" chinese shoes.WTF?

on other hand i have been in armani with flip-flop shoes 🙂 but yes i am with you on this point. On high end, intel used to have some "extra" on their entry level processor, extra lanes or memory channel over the equivalent on mainstream chipset... But here you have nothing... why not a celeron with single core and single memory channel then??? At a point doing less for reducing price may discredit the quality of the 2066 that will seem too expensive compared to Z270 with I5k for the same (or less) performance... Personaly i pass this 2066 and stay in 2011 v3 for now.

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Crazy Serb

2017-07-12 12:31

I think we need some kind of "wrong platform badge" as well. Even if CPU is good enough, it does not mean it is made for suitable platform. You still need that expensive motherboard (half of MoBo?!).

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rl66

2017-07-12 12:32

Can someone explain to me how does the 6950X gets such a high FPS in games when its max frequency is only 3,5 GHz ? How is that CPU beating much higher clocked Intels ?

because the clock is only to compare CPU fom same fork and brand... the architecture, the instruction set, the chipset, the GPU... all of that matter. Exemples: on intel 775 the Pentium D at 3.4Mhz (800$ lol) were outperformed by the core2 at 2.0Mhz (150$) other exemple on other way on G3258 once OC were faster in game than entry i3 despite the HT and extra instruction set.

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wantobe

2017-07-12 12:33

Sorry, just can't see why this CPU is Recommended, performance - single core is where it should be in 2017 and in the rest of the graphs its below average for not a good value at all and no integrated graphics. In my opinion lasting value of this CPU is very bad. Also 6600K did not have a recommended badge. Anyway, as always thank you for the information!

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H83

2017-07-12 12:45

This and the 7740X must be the most pointless cpus i have ever seen in my life!!! No point in buying this kind of cpus in such an expensive platform.

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Kaarme

2017-07-12 14:33

AMD may indeed provide the regular user with far more value for the money (often twice or more), but when was the last time they made anything reliable?

When was the last time Intel made anything reliable? When was the last time anything in the whole computer world was entirely reliable? Such a time never existed in the first place. If you want something reliable, go to a decent hardware store and buy a quality hammer and axe, for real HEDT, get a solid anvil as well! They are simple enough to be reliable, with thousands of years of history. Although even they will deform and wear out after years and decades of use.

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Malmoth

2017-07-12 15:22

i5 7640X and i3 7350K most garbage Intel CPU all the time.

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Noisiv

2017-07-12 15:29

When was the last time Intel made anything reliable? When was the last time anything in the whole computer world was entirely reliable? Such a time never existed in the first place. If you want something reliable, go to a decent hardware store and buy a quality hammer and axe, for real HEDT, get a solid anvil as well! They are simple enough to be reliable, with thousands of years of history. Although even they will deform and wear out after years and decades of use.

Dont forget the blade server: https://abload.de/img/crowbar02sd6.jpg

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Venix

2017-07-12 15:31

i am pretty sure when they decided to release this cpu in this platform this was the image they got inspiration from ! [spoiler] https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/c9/56/be/c956be32903bbcd7afe865ad02b85814.jpg [/spoiler]

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Noisiv

2017-07-12 15:38

This CPU would have been problematic even if it wasn't tied to X299. I mean who the hell is it aimed at?

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schmidtbag

2017-07-12 16:02

You are absolutely right in thinking that. In the end though, this is a processor review and not platform or mobo review. The 7640x is by all means not a bad proc. Contrary, it gives great game perf, offers good single threaded perf, is showing good temps and can be tweaked really well. So as a processor I can recommend it (despite the fact that I feel hexa and octa cores are the new quads). So that is why I feel it deserves a recommended award. But purely as proc. As a processor within this platform however, well I find it to be a puzzling mess. And that I mentioned rather clearly in the conclusion. But sure, I hear and can understand what you are saying.

I completely understand your perspective and see the validity in it, but I feel the point "Guru3dreader" made carries a little more weight. If I may make a suggestion, perhaps you should tweak your rating system, where you have the following categories: * Performance level the product's class (in which case this i5 would get a very good score) * Level of features (where this i5 is good in some ways and bad in others) * Value (where this i5 is awful) * Any award(s) that you personally deem the product worthy of, whether that be recommendable (vs competitors), the best of its kind, a smart choice, better than advertised, and so on. So ultimately, you mostly keep your original system the way it is but you make it more quantifiable.

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Agent-A01

2017-07-12 16:28

Hilbert, You wrote "Our Corsair LCS cooler was not capable of cooling the proc enough as shown below." but then mention below that "a nice 70 degree max" at 5.1

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Hilbert Hagedoorn

Administrator

2017-07-12 17:37

Ah, cheers for that Agent, fixed. As well as the quad-channel remark and the improperly highlighted proc in the Deus Ex chart Edge mentioned. Cheers guys.