CPU You can buy it already: 11700K already in the wild, with benchmarks....in spite of NDAs

[Skripka]

In a move that massively irks the tech press who are muzzled with NDA orders for samples they don't even have yet....

Anandtech was able to retail buy an 11700K and already has a review up:

Intel Core i7-11700K Review: Blasting Off with Rocket Lake

www.anandtech.com

 

[rfarmer]

Bit scary, with the unrestricted power draw and resulting temps this is going to be a tough one to cool and probably not very SFF friendly. You are definitely going to need to set power limits.

 

[Skripka]

Bit scary, with the unrestricted power draw and resulting temps this is going to be a tough one to cool and probably not very SFF friendly. You are definitely going to need to set power limits.

Well, the power budget is mostly related to mainboard partners disabling the tau period....something they've been doing for a while.

The more sadly funny thing....even with tau disabled, the SKU still loses basically all non-AVX benchmarks to the 5800X. Question is what exactly normal MSRP is actually supposed to be. And, the elephant in the room, if there's any stock to even be able to buy.

 

[Phuncz]

It seems stock is not going to be a problem as it was already purchaseable before the review embargo was over, probably because of the 14nm process.

 

[Gilles3000]

Seems like there's no point getting one over a 10700K or even 9900K...

I suppose the only reason to buy one of these will be when all the alternatives are out of stock.

 

[Quango]

I am waiting for a i5-11500 or a 11500T - since there is no quadcore version - to upgrade my DeskMini H470M-STX to enhance its graphics and media capabilities and using the rear M.2 Gen4 slot.

I will move the H470M-STX board into an Akasa Cypher ST V2, of which the upper lid can be removed so any cooler height can fit.