Intel has decided to lower the price of the Intel i3 7350K processors, the first processor with overclocking power within the i3 family, which has had a rather cold reception.
Many will not even remember this processor, but it had an interesting reception and was highly valued, being the first of its kind and showing the potential it hid. We are talking about the Intel i3 7350K, which seems to have had an even colder reception than its older brothers in the Kaby Lake family. We were able to analyze it some time ago in a team donated by Coolmod and we did all kinds of shit, until we put a KFA GTX 1080 EXOC on it and I endure like a champion, 100% at all times and with OC, but I endure.
This 14nm-based processor was designed especially for fans of overclocking and was released for approximately € 190, although the reception has not been the best and Intel has decided to subtract € 35 and can now be found for € 165. The problem with this processor is that underneath it has the Pentium G4560, a low-end processor that has given brutal performance and features and that is sold a lot in the entry range. The i3 7350K has two cores and four threads of processing with a frequency of 4.2GHz and no Boost mode.
We must emphasize that this processor is not bad in terms of performance and features and has a TDP of only 60W, which is something to take into account, but it was designed for users who at one point could make it OC or for amateurs to gaming that build a team with a view to overclocking it in the future to gain power and not have to change equipment. There are other solutions, such as the Ryzen 5 1400 that is around € 190, although they hardly allow overclocking. The choice is yours.
What did these people expect, if you want to succeed with that processor you can put it for 130 euros and it is a good price, for 165 I prefer to buy a ryzen 4/8.
I don't know who came up with removing that processor
The price is not good, but the processor is.
The price is not good, but the processor in the end either, in the benchmarks that competes a r5 1400 with an i3 7350k the i3 has to put a 4.8ghz boost to match and exceed the ryzen at 4.0ghz, taking into account that the i3 in the roughest games goes to 100% and the ryzen to 60-80% implies that the life of the i3 is going to be very short, for almost the same price you have the ryzen 5 1400 and if we wait for the ryzen 3 surely a much cheaper one will come out of 2 cores 4 threads that will also go 100% in current games but surely it is worth much less and if it is worth the same price it is because it will have an integrated GPU that will obviously be much more powerful than the intel graphics XD
The processor is fine, the problem is that with what you spend more to overclock it, the best solution is an i5
It's not just the processor, if not the z270 board, which is very expensive