The Dual Core for "Enthusiasts" | i3-7350K

Testing the 2017 i3-7350K unlocked dual-core in 10 popular and demanding games in 2023, using an RX 6900 XT discrete GPU.
Dual cores are a thing of the past in 2023, having been slowly replaced in desktops as enthusiasts and gamers embraced higher core counts. The trend towards more threads seemed to escape Intel at the beginning of 2017, however, as their answer to the enthusiast market was to release their first ever unlocked i3. Overclocked to 4.8GHz, this might just be the best dual core ever... but will that save the i3-7350K in modern games and applications?
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00:00 The “Enthusiast Friendly” i3-7350K
01:04 History of the i3-7350K
03:42 Test System
04:06 Gaming Benchmarks
04:09 Benchmarks: Assassin’s Creed: Origins
05:03 Benchmarks: Valorant
05:40 Benchmarks: Fortnite
06:09 Benchmarks: Counter Strike 2
06:44 Benchmarks: Call of Duty: Warzone
07:24 Benchmarks: Starfield
08:01 Benchmarks: Cyberpunk 2077
08:41 Benchmarks: The Last of Us
09:07 Benchmarks: Jedi Survivor
09:49 Benchmarks: Flight Simulator 2020
10:20 Benchmarks: Civilization VI
10:51 Davinci Resolve
11:12 Blender
11:26 CPU-Z & Cinebench R23
11:34 Fire Strike & Time Spy
11:42 Conclusion
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[@Elomentoplayz]

A overclockable dual core is such a cursed concept to me when 6 cores were common at the time. 4 core processors were basically necessary at that point to have a good time in gaming, so why would enthusiasts choose it over an i5? To make it worse, the i5 variant wasn't too much more expensive, was a 4 core, and would last you much longer. A standard i5-6500 on a OEM prebuilt would beat the i3-7350k everyday of the week.

[@lharsay]

The 7th gen i5s also aged like crap, the 6th-7th gen i7s had some decent longevity but then there was the i7 8700K which arguably still holds up today.

[@Elomentoplayz]

@@lharsay the i770 is still really decent and I somehow got one from a reclying place for free so I'm definitely gonna use it.

[@R3TR0J4N]

this comment encapsulates my thoughts about it

[@couriersix2443]

My old 2600K @ 5Ghz curb stomped my friend’s 7350K into oblivion haha. Also two of my other friends’ 6600Ks (but one of them ended up upgrading to a R7 2700X whereas I went with a R5 2600 at the time) Edit: It’s funny to think about how these days CPUs like the 14700K have 8 super-fast hyper-threaded cores, with (basically) 3x i5-7600Ks slapped on top.

[@CrocoDylianVT]

​@@lharsayeven a 4th gen i7 hold up better than 6th and 7th gen

[@Josh-cw8by]

At the time, the rational man in me said "this is a horrible value" The fiscally irresponsible overclocker in me said "It's so cool. I want to tweak it for hours and hours"

[@hiii4805]

7th gen laptops sold for rlly cheap tho

[@marisakirisame867]

Not at my country

[@Al3ksandrOrlov]

ahhh, 6 years ago, I remember the G4560, 8GB DDR4 & 1050Ti builds well

[@hananas2]

Being a fond i3 6100 enjoyer at that time, I thought the 7350K was super cool but totally impractical due to the price of Z motherboards and the price of the CPU itself.

[@jamesdavies686]

Mind you, Intel also released a 4 core 4 thread HEDT chip.

[@takehirolol5962]

Yeah, the i3 6100 was good enough, but oh boy...I was so wrong. Then moved to Ryzen 5 2600, now using a 5600x.

[@ArtisChronicles]

​@@jamesdavies686 that was a cursed processor too...

[@harleyn3089]

In the used market these are pretty fun. I got an i3-6300 for $10, along with a Z270 mini PC motherboard for $25. The i3-6300 has a base clock of 3.8 Ghz, so it does really well for lightly threaded tasks.

[@edussantoz9034]

synce AMD realeased Ryzen Intel is a no go for budget builds. Intel was a JOKE, double the price for half the performance.

[@thoughtisenergy]

i loved this processor simply for being weird. ended up building it into a node 202 with a gtx 1060 3-gigabyte for the ultimate kneecapped rig.

[@b0tatrot681]

Lmao golden

[@happybuggy1582]

Oh boy

[@Ryzard]

Shoulda gone for the 1030(to?)tbh

[@tyler6602]

​@@Ryzard nah atleast put a 1050

[@Ryzard]

@@tyler6602 I mean for a kneecapped rig, the 1030 fits.

[@Elomentoplayz]

7:35 At least the GPU is only consuming like 9 watt of power!

[@Rabbit_AF]

Great video! I'm glad you found a fresh topic.

[@zachattackbaby]

I don't see any reason your channel won't be taking off real soon. Top quality content right here.

[@asbani07]

what an amazing production skill you have. i hope you'll become big one day man. you really deserve it

[@tinsleyng2235]

I‘d rather choosing the 3570K then the 7350K.

[@CrocoDylianVT]

Rather a 4th gen i5, 4th gen has features 3th lacks of to run modern games

[@Keullo-eFIN]

@@CrocoDylianVT I think he said 3570K on purpose as it has the same numbers but in different order than 7350K.

[@charlesg5085]

Lol I was thinking my 3770k probably beats this.

[@yjgfikl76]

It sounds like you're teasing a future coffee time upgrade, I'm looking forward to that! I did it earlier this year and found it to be a pretty good jump for minimal cost going from a 6700k @ 4.6 to a 9700k @ 5.0. Excited to see what you find with actual quantifiable results. I did it with an Asus Z170i Pro Gaming motherboard.

[@IcebergTech]

I've ordered a cheap mystery PC from CEX, described as a "Custom Build" with a 6th gen i5, so a lot depends on what motherboard turns up. But yes, the plan is to do a Coffee Time mod.

[@techonthebrain6938]

Those were the days, my builds first CPU Was a 200GE Using the intergrated graphics, 15 FPS In ESports tittles was common, still it was a great CPU Just to get building experience, great video

[@NatInTheHat49]

Me still using a dual core even today right in the feels (dont worry its just a internet browser 4th laptop i3)

[@GordosTacoShop]

I have one of these! I got it on a combo deal at micro center with a zseries mobo for $99 usd. This cpu carried me until zen 3. I mostly emulate and I had my i3 at 5.2ghz, so I wasn’t hurting with games that were single thread intensive.

[@xavierrodriguez2463]

Jesus Christ 5.2 how tf????

[@GordosTacoShop]

lucky binning I s'pose. I'm not exactly a talented OCer. I just had a cryorig H7 on it with regular old MX5 paste. Usually topped out at 75C or so, but typically ran in the 60s. completely stable @@xavierrodriguez2463

[@01RIE01]

Awesome video again! About the outro, I don't get how the 6700k and 7700k stay so expensive (60+ euros/dollars/pounds ) on the used market. You can have a cheaper R5 3600 (they sell for around 50 euros here in the Netherlands) with a cheaper B350/B450 motherboard. It honestly baffles me.

[@ArtisChronicles]

I7s and a lot of Nvidia GPUs always carry a weird premium. Usually xeons are where the price for the performance really shines when it comes to used hardware. True on the used Ryzens as you've mentioned as well.

[@Liinuli.]

Like other said people overvaluing i7's. But other part of it is, that a 6700k or a 7700k is the best cpu you can put if you are still stuck in a skylake/kabylake lga 1151 motherboard. While upgrading to a better cpu from an another platform may be cheaper than getting a 7700k. But it would also mean you'd need to get a new motherboard and maybe even ram. That's why a used i9 9900k costs same as a new i7 12700k. Because the i9 9900k is the best cpu you can put in that cofeelake lga 1151 motherboard. So if someone bought a Z390 motherboard for his i5 9600k, and now wants to upgrade his cpu. Rather than buying the 12700k and a new Z690 motherboard, he gets just the 9900k.

[@oddf3llow]

I ended up with one of these in a second-hand Z270 motherboard. I thought it'd be horrible, and would need instantly replacing but, it's actually okay*. I was going to replace it with a i7 6700k, but I've hung on to it for a lot longer than I thought I would. I'm actually thinking of doing a Coffee Time bios hack and getting a 6 core i5 instead. *considering I only have a GTX970

[@dallaslooksmaxxer3505]

Underrated channel💯

[@adamhafiddin9564]

Those 7360x, a dual core on lga 2066 sure looks spicy

[@themaxster_]

Coffeetime incoming?!? I'd love to see you do a video on this, modding your own bios and everything! The process was pretty easy to do on my z170 board granted I didn't have to do any pin mods... I'm currently running a QTJ0 chip on my EVGA z170 Stinger board at 4.6ghz all core. While it is stable this poor little board was never designed for this many cores and my vrm is struggling :(

[@ronnie3626]

I actually just found a reasonable priced PC with i3 7350K and Asrock Z170 Extreme 6+, 120gb ssd and Pure Power 11 500w, other specs are unknown. It was the only offer since months, very rare cpu here. I basically only care about the cpu + mobo, hope it arrives next week and achieves 5GHz

[@brentw8365]

All of Intel's 1st gen core series could be overclocked, but good LGA 1156 motherboards are hard to find at the right price.

[@skemmy215]

The shots where you do that thing over the cpu with the blue light are crazy

[@IcebergTech]

* unofficial toy lightsaber

[@dionysus6081]

I think if intel allows overclocking of the 14100 for an upcharge of $10-$20 it might be attractive if you could overclock with lower end boards. From what ive seen the 14100 will have 6p cores so overclocking may actually kind of make sense

[@StaelTek]

I would LOVE to try a 7350K. Delidding it and push it to the limit to see what it could be capable of.

[@boneman1210]

@Iceberg Tech, can you also look into the a8 - 9600 or a-10 9700 am4 apu's the last hurrah for the A series APU's hahaha

[@main_tak_becus6689]

I loved my G4560 back then, the best budget CPU. Moved to Ryzen 5 2600 for gaming not long after release but it was a dissapoinment. I still dunno what will my new build be in the next few years. Don't need a PC for the foreseeable future.

[@VascovanZeller]

Great video! How about a revisit of the r5 1600? Or maybe a revisit of the 2700x? In both cases you can investigate the "moar cores" claim, that AMD CPUs with more cores would one day overcome their (at the time) faster rivals.

[@IcebergTech]

Unfortunately I sold my B450, without stopping to check if either of my B550s support Zen or Zen+. They do not. 🤦‍♂️

[@dabarbequeman]

Hey :) A little question, maybe you can do a test of the i7-7700k with a Asus Strix 1080 GTX.... would be interesting how it keeps up with 2023 :) best wishes Mark

[@GLDragon93]

4:55 Did you get your hands on one of those Xeon Mobile and ES cpus (soldered for LGA 1151 socket) that Miyconst like to affectionally call "mutant"?

[@IcebergTech]

No, the current plan is to try the Coffee Time mod. Those mutants are my backup plan.

[@GLDragon93]

​@@IcebergTech Right! Not sure why I've thought of the difficult option first. Btw, I've noticed a few Xeon E3 1240 V6 (i7 7700) and V5 (i7 6700) going for cheap on Ebay. The v6 at 55€ (40+15 postage) and the v5 with a larger stock/listings for about 40ish.

[@TylerBonenfant]

first gaming pc I got for myself had a two core i3 lol. I was only really playing games that relied on single core performance but I almost immediately wished I got a better cpu when I wanted to play literally anything else

[@delleron1106]

Im chilled on a i3 4150 after i got an rx 6400 i upgradet to an xeon e3 1225 v3 now im chilling on that i dont play new games (in some games like minecraft i seen hight fps even on the old cpu i was able to peak at 9k fps normal fps was 700-2000)

[@Reknilador]

I cant figure out how you ran AC Origins that smoothly. It was a stuttery mess on my i5 4690k at the time, I even had it OCd to 4.4 ghz all core, i had enough ram (16gb), not sure why it was unplayable..

[@MichaelFlatman]

i3 7360x (and other KBL X chips) deserve a video on their own look at the spec sheet you showed at 1:15 2c/4t ... 112w TDP (!!) $220 launch rather than $170 7350k

[@teaspoon966]

I didn't even know it existed. Wow such a lemon even in context...

[@ShortHandedNow]

As with most Kaby Lake "K" parts the 5Ghz OC becomes unattainable after 3-4 years. The chips age and anything over 4.7-4.8Ghz becomes unstable. (Had a 5.1Ghz 7700k which by the time of me selling it could only do 4.8Ghz in a semi stable fashion.)

[@alexg9155]

Skylake was the same. Ran my 6700K for 2 years at 4.7ghz easily, then I had to drop it to 4.6ghz. By the time I sold it a few months ago it was barely running 4.5ghz at 1.35V.

[@si1v3r352]

my fossil 7700K is still at 5Ghz stable that has been at that setting since new [2017]

[@ninjafrozr8809]

It's crazy that an overclocked i3 7350K has %20 faster single core performance than my i5 10400 (according to CPU-Z benchmark). Thank god i have 12 threads.

[@raynel8495]

@10:06 Manhattan looks like a post apocolyptic ruined city. 🤣

[@problematic3255]

okay hear me out, that little dual core is using FIFTY PERCENT of that 6900xt. Frame time graphs be damned that is IMPRESSIVE if I do say so myself ( 4:23 )

[@nushnume]

Saw this processor back in 2017 when i was looking to do a new build but it was almost the same price as an i5 7400 which was obviously better. It was the same when i upgraded to the i7 7700 where the 7th gen i5K processor was nearly the same cost as the i7 which was not worth it again

[@micahottaway8455]

Well, the AM4 platform really shook things up. It's actually a much better market because now there is competition. At that point, Intel didn't quite know what hit them yet, and the release of the Core i3 7350K showed a truly dazed and blinkered state.

[@Ryzard]

This even existing is wacky to me, especially in 2023. I've been grabbing 6 core Ryzen cpus for my friends for 40-60 dollars easily on ebay, and am4 can upgrade all the way to the 5800x3d (potentially a 5900x3d if they keep going up) so... Why would I buy an out of date intel mobo for this when I can find better cpus with motherboards in dell/asus/hp office pcs from that time?

[@Blinkhs1]

Hey Iceberg, what would be your opinion on the rumored rtx 3050 6gb which would be 75w and no external power connectors? Pairing it with a 4th gen i7 maybe?

[@IcebergTech]

I mean, that sounds a lot like an A2000 to be honest, and plenty of people liked that card for low profile or low power systems. The main reason I've left the A2000 alone so far is that it's too expensive for me, so it comes in under - say - $180, then it might be interesting. As for a 4th gen i7, that pairing would probably be okay for 60 FPS in older AAA games, but in this year's titles it might be worth looking into an upgrade to something newer.

[@Blinkhs1]

@@IcebergTech yeah i get what you mean, maybe with a 7700 system and the 3050 6gb at the right price could make a lot of sense as a kinda new 750ti

[@actuallycantdoanything8179]

​@@IcebergTechspeaking of budget tier graphics cards what do you think of the Arc A580? I think it would make for pretty good all new budget build, if it wasn't for the A750 and the RX 6600 that can be found for not much more Also will you ever do a video about it?

[@IcebergTech]

@@actuallycantdoanything8179 It doesn't exist in the UK right now. There's one overpriced import listed on Amazon and that's it. I'd love to review one, if I could.

[@Elomentoplayz]

sounds like they're trying to cram my laptop GPU into a actual GPU. lol

[@DanielGT_93]

Z270 fits well with an QQLS. 8/16 9gen at 4.5Ghz

[@gedeuchnixan3830]

My old 60€ Biostar H110MHV3 v2 could have overclocked that i3 to 4 or 4.2 GHz, OC settings might have been very rudemental but they were there.

[@Al3ksandrOrlov]

Greg Salazar did a video on this CPU too, he called its existence stupid, he was correct

[@IcebergTech]

Was it the 7350K he used as a box opener? Or the 8350K?

[@Xamiakass]

intel2310,phenom 9650, intel 3570k@4.5ghz perma, 3900x@4100. amd has always seemed like a better score. thouggh, i have to admit: either i was just lucky in the sillicon lottery or 3570k was just THAT good... but that thing ran 4.5ghz perma OC for about 8 years... respect, where it's due. bought the 3900x literally on the day of release. yes, i know,... it really was a mistake and i had to rma my original cpu... took amd about 8 months to send a new one (amd, die in a F ditch), but since then... the replacement i reaceived was just a treat. honestly. currently, running the thing at mobo set of 4ghz and -1.625v offset.temps did not make a diff, but the system have had developed a more static performance. i do not know if 3900x is as rigid in general or i am just that unlucky.... but about a month ago i bought my dearest a 5700x and... mine still poops on her's... go figure, right?

[@Reaver9021]

I heard jedi survivor is very hard on imc of the cpu. So it is quite probable weak imc of 7350k cannot handle four channels memory to its fullest extend

[@sklynexd]

amazing loud music I always dance on it

[@Keullo-eFIN]

I almost bought one back in 2017, but came to my senses and got a 7600K.

[@takehirolol5962]

I had a i3 6100, it was destroyed by...Dragon Quest XI. Then moved to Ryzen 5 2600...no issues. Now have a 5600x.

[@pravculear]

okay, so how does the i3-7350k do in cities skylines 2?

[@ZixaphirMoxphar]

The Lindsay Ellis reference was beautiful

[@FenixQubes]

I expected much worse. This was actually kinda usable for a time.

[@3pokrobloxvideos456]

I want to build a secound pc under 200 euros and I am thinking should I go 6th Gen bad motherboard cheap AM4 something or 3/4th Gen i7 k cpus

[@green90s]

When I can't end task a game/app/etc, I press Win+Tab, put the app in question on the second virtual desktop and return to the first one. Now you can see the task manager there and can proceed with force closing the game as you would. Hope this helps someone somewhere.

[@IcebergTech]

Thanks, I'll bear that in mind

[@moxe6841]

I say If old xeons could be overclocked freely theyd prolly be on par with 9th gen i7s(xeon 2699 v4 and wtv)

[@thomaswest2583]

The I3 7350k did better than i thought it would.

[@YTSZAZU]

Are you willing to try out the amernime drivers polaris/Vega/RDNA AFMF drivers? (edit post since I can't reply : I tried it out, Rx 470 no AFMF)

[@IcebergTech]

I'm thinking about making something about AFMF, but I'm not 100% sure what it will be just yet.

[@256sergi]

Please, consume from the wall while playing is very useful. Thanks for ghe video.

[@lanelesic]

For me quad cores are history as well. I wouldnt get a dual core now apart from some legacy windows XP computer or something.

[@ireallyreallyreallylikethisimg]

My i3 6300 did it's time and I replaced it with a ryzen 5800x 3 years ago

[@LeGoooze]

Iceburg Time! While not related to the video, what was your reaction with the guest appearance of A.I.ceberg on the latest Hardware Lab video? 👀

[@IcebergTech]

They asked for my permission first. I think it sounds like someone pasted some of my intonations over a very generic chatbot voice, it's lost my Brummie accent altogether.

[@spoots1234]

A lot of apps still only punch 2 cores. A modern 2 core with a lot of cache would be an interesting experiment

[@peterpan408]

'Smoothness' requires enough Threads/Cores to chew on the heavy threads on thier own Core each while other threads use the extra Cores/Threads.. 'Snappiness' is good once you have smoothness, however it then improves again if you have high Clocks/IPC. It seems this CPU does not have enough Cores/Threads for any snappiness to matter.

[@coreyisabigpushover]

While there are apps that may still only use one or two cores at time, you may have more than one app running along with any background tasks Windows is performing. I recently upgraded my workstation from an i5-6500 to an i5-13500 while keeping the same nvme drive with the same Windows 11 install and there was a BIG difference in boot up time and overall snappiness.

[@spoots1234]

@@coreyisabigpushover Yeah a lot of the extra cores are for background processes on the windows side of things. Gaming aside, jumping from 4 to 6 and 6 to 8 is noticeable in general tasks even if you don't see it in FPS.

[@FunkyTechy]

I take this and the i3-8350k to 5ghz on pcbs2 lol makes for a great budget rig

[@couriersix2443]

Intel was still skimping on core/threads per dollar (all the way up to Comet Lake if we’re being honest), which is why the 7350K was admittedly “poor value” even at launch. The immediate successor(s) to it (8350K/9350K) were at least effectively what i5s had been for so many years with 4c/4t total. Which put them in direct competition with the R3 1200, 2200G/3200G, and 2300X (since the 3100 & 3300X had SMT, those were closer to what would eventually be known as the 10100). Either way no quad-core whether hyper-threaded or not is really worth it in 2023; there’s just an abundance of older 6 & 8-core options to choose from that offer far better value

[@atoo7yt490]

we need a 8350k/9350k video asap

[@AlfaPro1337]

They are just 7600K souped up.

[@pham3383]

Dual cores are still fine for any job beside gaming(light video edit is still fine

[@RevDrCCoonansr]

An eye out for an experiment you say? I say I see a coffee time video coming soon.

[@wertywerrtyson5529]

The 8350K was something I looked at as an upgrade for my 3570K but ended up waiting and getting the 9700K even the 8350K makes very little sense with 4 cores/ 4Threads the 7350K with 2/4 makes no sense.

[@romankozlovskiy7899]

2000-2009 Dual core cpus are okay for gaming, 2010-2016 Quad cores for the win, 2017-2019 6-8 cores needed, 2023+ 16 cores ideally if you want the most fps with the 4090, 4080 Etc

[@SIPEROTH]

I think you went with inflated specs. I mean if we are talking okay for gaming instead of absolutely top performance then you don't need such specs. You could play with a Dual core until 2012. From 2012-2018 4 cores were enough to get by. 2018-2023 is 6 cores because even now you can play every game with a good 6 core. I'll say 2024 to 2030 you will need 8 core CPU's and i see 16 cores becoming a necessity for gaming after 2030. Right now modern consoles are 8 cores so i see game developers focusing on utilizing mostly 8 cores. I imagine this consoles will be replaced at around 2028 with new 16 core CPU's under the hoot. At that point is game developers with try to jump to 16 cores by fully utilizing console hardware. Add to that a 2 year delay for the 16 core focused games to start appearing and around 2030 is a good guess.

[@toxen5919]

4:50 8th gen on modded 1xx/2xx boards? 😍

[@gandi69]

Easy if you can do it wit just a 4c/4t chip. Anything more and it’s not worth the time when you have to start modifying the sockets/cpu with tape etc. I’ve got a few 8100s running on lowly h110 boards

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

Good video. The i3-7350K would be good for a retro XP/Windows 7 gaming build.

[@aftertheelectrike1847]

Windows XP doesn't seem to start on anything past Broadwell :(

[@JamesSmith-sw3nk]

@@aftertheelectrike1847 A community "patched" copy of XP will work.

[@SIPEROTH]

@@aftertheelectrike1847 Yeah the last generation that supported Windows XP was the 3rd generation of core processors from Intel. I am not sure about AMD. Maybe you can get something newer that supports Windows XP from them but their performance those days was so bad that even two generations ahead will still probably not be better than a 3rd generation core CPU.

[@OrkishEngineering]

imagine an i3 14100k. 4 p cores, 2 e cores, and overclocking! the e cores could help offset the issues of a quad core!

[@nicekeyboardalan6972]

i3-7350K on LGA 2066????? Now thats a cursed CPU!

[@erikbritz8095]

*Yeah dual cores are a bit rough on 2023*

[@happybuggy1582]

Bro I’m still using ivybridge😢 it still run games so i hold on to it for that long

[@nevernicemeadow]

if its an 3770 it probably stomps this pathetic i3 into the ground

[@sisamusudroka3000]

My current PC is running a i3 8100 3.60Ghz. So far its been great, although to be fair it is a 4 core. I've be able to game decently with 16gb ram and a 1650 4gb ddr5 oc lp. Fortnite i can run on high 75-120 fps easy. Without the graphics card gaming isn't as good of course, but can still do fortnite at all low 30 fps with occasional stuttering. It can do 4k video at 60fps quite well on its own.

[@latioseon7794]

I always like the idea of overclockable low-mid range parts, problem is because its intel doing it you still need the expensive Z chipset motherboard to do so since they insist the B chipset remains locked.. Imagine an unlocked Pentium Gold G7400 and i3 13100 on an OC capable B660 getting over 5GHz which they are capable of

[@williampaabreeves]

if only they would unlock B chipsets for low end overclocking CPUs like they did with B85 for the Pentium G3258

[@m8x425]

ASRock B660 Riptide has entered the chat

[@kartikgupta9117]

while i game on an i5 7200 U (dual core) ╥﹏╥ (heavily debloated windows 10)(atlas os)

[@Joshking281]

Can u do an i7-3770k

[@VascovanZeller]

We in 2023 have the benefit of knowing the full range of possibilities of the AM4 platform. No budget conscious person buying used should ever consider intel. A cheap b350 can run anything from a 1600 to a 5800x3d, all while using the same RAM and cooler.

[@jimtekkit]

Not sure about anyone else, but even back in 2017 I didn't know any "enthusiasts" with even a remote interest in dual cores.

[@alilokhd4638]

What about The first i9 ?? Or even the last i9 in the x299 platform

[@IcebergTech]

I haven't got an X299 yet, but I think I might invest in a motherboard next year.

[@classic_jam]

This doesn't instill much confidence in my 12-core Phenom Opteron Overclocked testing I plan on doing next month. Not to mention the lack of instructions.

[@OberstStein]

I am still waiting for the high clock Intel Single-Core CPU that they promised a long time ago.

[@threzz3]

Main cpu an i5 6600 Stiller Good in this year :D

[@Remyie]

if only intel didn't limit overclocking to z motherboard

[@lharsay]

At least since then thay unlocked XMP for B series as well.

[@Schattennebel]

Sadly OC was limited to Z-Boards after the End of P-Boards.

[@coreyisabigpushover]

Incredibly bad value when you consider the Pentium G4560 also existed alongside this i3 which was also 2 core/4 thread and could be paired with a dirt cheap motherboard making a great budget PC at the time.

[@SIPEROTH]

I always laugh at how naïve ebay resellers are on what they got. For example because this CPU was quite pricy for what it offered and they bought it much more expensive that it was worth they refuse to now sell it for what is actually worth simply because they paid too much when they bought it and they can't accept they just made a bad buy and sell it for the $10-15 that is actually worth right now.

[@RevDrCCoonansr]

That intro was HILARIOUS. Intel never took a beating in 2017. Sure, Zen was released, but the only people with them were first adopters and enthusiasts. Few ordinary people bought one. They were too busy buying OEM Intel/Nvidia machines. I would know I was one of them. However I returned that machine and went used Intel instead of Ryzen. Why? The i7 3770 I built had the same single core as the R5 1600 or 1500X that I would have bought instead. The RAM was cheaper as it was DDR3 which I already had 16GB of. The only thing I had to buy was the motherboard. I Settled on an Intel Q77 with mSata. It was fast to boot and my SSD held my games after that. It was a win win for me coming from an FX 8350. The Ryzen path or new Intel would have included DDR4 on top of that and I never would have been able to swing a deal to get the i7 for free like I did with the i7 3770 so for me at the time it made sense. This processor you are showcasing, makes no sense but is an excellent watch and fun video. Thank You.

[@MusicHavenSG]

Now compare with the 8350K/9350K! Quad core i3s for this!

[@pptemplar5840]

This seems like a 90's Honda Civic without a ECU The fact that it can be overclocked seems like a manufacturing error more than a feature.

[@dabombinablemi6188]

It overclocked as high as my i7 4790K...and at the same voltage. Yeah those i3 were a really stupid idea.

[@IndellableHatesHandles]

Test it against an i5-7400 to demonstrate how garbage the value was. Also, there _is_ one use case for Skylake/Kaby Lake in 2023: The platform is very power efficient at idle, especially considering the price to buy in, so it's good for a small server project.

[@lharsay]

Both were garbage yet some people back then argued over which was better.

[@PhilippJanusch]

only good gen7 cpu was the pentium 4560, also 2core but the 1st with ht

[@Sithhy]

A high-clocking dual core? Perfect for original Crysis

[@alilokhd4638]

Intel 6th gen were all overclockabele using the bus not the multiplier, intel removed this but delivered officiel ones with K SKUs but didn't deliver anything better performance yet with higher MSRP and you need a z motherboard to overclock them.

[@slimshady_7977]

i dont care about 7350K but rather more interesting is i3 7360X , a dual core X299 cpu :D 1:14

[@obnot]

Ah, yes! 👏One more of Iceberg's good retrospective vids is out talking about the good old days when Intel was still beating "our @lls" ehh...... the drum for those refreshed with updated instruction sets Core 2 Extreme processors . Who would have thought that AMD would put all of that out of misery.... with a ten-year delay.

[@andrewmutavi590]

What if intel produced a new age dual core with 2P cores 4E cores for a total of 6cores 8threads with a sub $100 price tag for their latest platform,now wouldn't that be something

[@arieffadhila7114]

I think the original plan for Meteor Lake-S with brand new LGA1851 was going to include a 6 cores i3. But as we all know, Intel decided to refresh Raptor Lake instead, so we are still stuck with 4 cores i3. Oh and i also likes to think that this is another reason why we still haven’t get the Zen 4’s Ryzen 3 as AMD still waiting on final configuration of the new core i3 (or Core 3).

[@fireball2275]

That would still murder my laptops miserable ryzen 2500u limited to 5 watts, made for “gaming”

[@peterpan408]

Check your BIOS. You might be able to change it to Performance. This will run it hotter at the cost of battery life. Want it to last all day? Or give as much as it's got for 4-hours?