The Intel Core i3-7350K (60W) Review: Almost a Core i7-2600K
by Ian Cutress on February 3, 2017 8:00 AM ESTAlien: Isolation
If first person survival mixed with horror is your sort of thing, then Alien: Isolation, based off of the Alien franchise, should be an interesting title. Developed by The Creative Assembly and released in October 2014, Alien: Isolation has won numerous awards from Game Of The Year to several top 10s/25s and Best Horror titles, ratcheting up over a million sales by February 2015. Alien: Isolation uses a custom built engine which includes dynamic sound effects and should be fully multi-core enabled.
Aside from a small dip by the Core i7-2600K when using the R9 285, the i3-7350K matches the other CPUs in Alien Isolation.
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blzd - Friday, February 10, 2017 - link
You may need to test with some newer games, some of which I read are having issues running with dual cores.Minimum FPS might be worth including as well.
Narg - Friday, February 10, 2017 - link
I couldn't help remember the old Celerons from years past that could be overclocked to the point of more than double the performance of chips barely twice their price from Intel. This is nothing new. And glad to see Intel has really not lost their "geeky" mindset for the true hardware hardcore among us.albert89 - Friday, February 17, 2017 - link
You can run the i7-2600K on Win8.1 and down. You can't do that with the i3-7350.TheJian - Wednesday, February 22, 2017 - link
They testing the i3-7350 w/Z270 here and used the on chip gpu with Win7 x64. It would appear Wintel lied about Z270+Kaby lake not working with Win7? What driver is Ian Cutress using here for the integrated gpu testing? Please clear this up Ian.Wish they had used a 1080 gtx.
Vatharian - Friday, March 3, 2017 - link
I'd be hardly pressed to change 2600K (which I had) to 2C/4T CPU. But then, I was blessed with a God's chip: my 2600K easily and comfortably reached 5.2 GHz at ~1.38 V. I really don't believe 7350K would catch up with THIS.BTW, anyone doing even just a little bit of coding on their PC would welcome compilation benchmark!
Artanis2 - Friday, June 9, 2017 - link
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WHEN ?!