Intel® Core™ i7-11700K Desktop Processor 8 Cores up to 5.0 GHz Unlocked LGA1200 (Intel 500 Series & Select 400 Series Chipset) 125W

I bought it for 360 minus gift card from bank points it was around 310.

the i7 11700K 11th gen sits in between the well reviewed i5 and the poorly priced i9 11900k. I think at this price (I got it at pre-launch sale of $399) its a good product. Its cheaper than the 5800X, performs very close to it and is a lot more fun to Overclock. Rocket Lake (11th gen) supports specific core overclocks to dial in ratios for the two best cores and other less hot cores. It also can take a tad bit more voltage than skylake++++ (1.45V load voltage supposedly safe according to Reddit AMA) although running at slightly lower all core clocks than comet lake with improved IPC. This actually seems to run slightly cooler for me but power draw can be pretty nuts on stress tests. Gaming load is not bad at all I was seeing around 100w on Horizon Zero Dawn.

Rates as UFO on User Benchmark & is a very good CPU. For anyone who might wonder though it is not good for gaming unless you have a dedicated graphics card. So the person who answered my question & said it was great for no video card gaming on 1080p, they lied! Any way I am running it with an RX 560 4GB right now on my UHD 52 TV on low settings unless video cards come back down to reasonable prices again & it works fine for the games I play. If you do not game or need use of powerful graphics its great for surfing the web, watching videos & streams. Otherwise I advise you find or have a video card if you want to game or what ever.

I watched a lot of reviews on this chip and they all say it’s trash! I mean, maybe some older gen chips work just as well and are cheaper but I’m averaging 4.9 to 5 GHz while playing warzone.

Packaged shipped and works as advertised. This was easy to install with minimum effort. It worked straight away and didnt give me any problems at all. I am not a tech guy with any benchmarks or anything like that I just know it works as far as my system boots and all my apps and software run without an issue. It rocks.

Building a new computer system.

Im very happy with this

In some benchmarks it runs just as well as a ryzen 5800x. well...the downside is the temperature.

Now with the i9-13900 series coming out this is two steps down from the top of the procesor market. It was just published that the new line was tested to 8.3gh. This line becomes the third choice and the i5s the poor cousins.

Great cpu. My computer boots faster than my monitor wakes up. Programs open immediately and run well. The only down side to this cpu is that it eats 125 watts and produces quite a bit of heat. My case exhaust fans make noticeable noise keeping my case cool. Having said that, with proper cooling it is easy to keep the cpu under 70 c (under heavy load mine runs 58-65).