Intel Core i7 4770K “Haswell” Processor Review

To test this processor we ran a similar system to previous processor reviews except we have changed the processor and motherboard in order to be able to run this new Intel platform. There is one slight change to the test system, which shouldn’t affect performance results, this was opting for the Corsair H100i over the Corsair H80. The test procedure sees us running the processor at stock, and then overclocked, for the overclocked tests we run them at the maximum achievable overclock which is clearly specified in brackets.

Test System

• Intel Core i7 4770K
• Gigabyte G1 Sniper 5
• Corsair Vengeance 1866MHz 16GB
• AMD XFX Radeon HD 7970 (reference clocks)
• Corsair H100i
• Corsair HX1050
• Kingston V+100 128GB SSD
• Lian Li T60

We would like to thank Asus, Corsair, Kingston and Lian Li for supplying us with our test system components.

Many different software applications are used to gain a broad spectrum of results.

Software used:

• 3DMark 11
• AIDA64
• Cinebench R11.5
• CPU-Z
• PCMark 7
• SuperPI