Reviewers Liked
- Faster at stock speeds than the 4770K
- Class-leading performance
- No price premium over Core i7-4770K
- First all-core 4GHz processor from Intel
- Should work on most LGA1150 motherboards
- Cooler running
- Virtualization tech
- NGPTIM
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Haswell overclocking variability
- No improvements to graphics
- Potential for relatively quick voltage-induced degradation
- Update isn't quite significant enough to upgrade from the initial Haswell CPUs
- IGP performance in non-synthetic benchmarks continues to be a concern