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Intel Core i5 7600

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User ratings:
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4.4 out of 5
39 user ratings
5 stars
53 %
4 stars
35 %
3 stars
10 %
2 stars
0 %
1 stars
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Consumer ratings:
4.5 / 5
Editorial reviews:
3
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3 editorial reviews
A good CPU for gaming, and for maintaining the status quo.Read more
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Pros

  • Turbo Boost binning is also impressive
  • in-depth reviews and helpful tips
  • Good thermals

Cons

  • drives are not designed to be directly user addressable
  • an uphill struggle than most Core i5 parts in recent memory
  • - Speed Shift currently only works in Windows 10

Key specs

  • LGA 1151
  • 3.5 GHz
  • 4
  • 4
  • 65 W
  • 14 nm
  • 6 MB
  • Smart Cache

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Intel Core i5 7600 - Pros & Cons

Intel Core i5 7600

Pros

  • Turbo Boost binning is also impressive
  • in-depth reviews and helpful tips
  • Good thermals
  • power
  • and overclocking
  • produces precise and accurate results

Cons

  • drives are not designed to be directly user addressable
  • an uphill struggle than most Core i5 parts in recent memory
  • - Speed Shift currently only works in Windows 10
  • and Intel were not working on a macOS driver
  • stingy 4MB L3 cache is a bummer
  • not able to run KL with all features on a W7 installation
  • the lack of major changes
  • Process-Architecture-Optimization paradigm
  • bottleneck when it comes to gaming performance
  • performance loss will typically be less than 10 percent

Intel Core i5 7600 - Technical Overview

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IconProcessor lithography
14 nm
Best:
HP AMD EPYC 7702
Processor lithography: 7 nm
IconNumber of cores
4
Best:
IconClock speed
3.5 GHz
Best:
AMD FX 9590
Clock speed: 4.7 GHz
IconMax turbo speed
4.1 GHz
Best:
Cisco Intel Xeon E5-2609
Max turbo speed: 24 GHz

Intel Core i5 7600 - Full Specifications

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General
Processor socketLGA 1151
Component forPC
Operating modes64-bit
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Integrated graphics
On-board graphics adapteryes
TypeIntel HD Graphics 630
On-board graphics adapter base frequency350.0 MHz
On-board graphics adapter DirectX version12.0
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Thermals
Cooler includedyes
Thermal specification212.0 °F
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Processor
Clock speed3.5 GHz
Max turbo speed4.1 GHz
Number of cores4
Number of threads4
Thermal Design Power (TDP)65.0 W
Processor lithography0.0 in
Bus typeDMI3
Idle statesyes
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Memory
Cache6 MB
Cache typeSmart Cache
Memory clock speeds supported by processor
  • 1333
  • 1600
  • 2133
  • 2400
Maximum internal memory supported by processor64.0 GB
Memory types supported by processor
  • DDR3L SDRAM
  • DDR4 SDRAM
Memory channelsDual
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Features
Thermal monitoring technologiesyes
Maximum number of PCI Express lanes16
Supported instruction sets
  • AVX 2.0
  • SSE4.1
  • SSE4.2
Execute disable bityes
Scalability1S

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