Intel Core i7-7700T, 4 Cores & 8 Threads Desktop Processor with Intel HD Graphics 630

Processor worked very well for a portable system that uses little electricity and is very quiet. This system runs productivity and code development software well.I7-7700T CPU, 2 x Kingston HyperX FURY 16 GB DDR4 memory, DEEPCOOL GABRIEL CPU Cooler, 2 X HGST Travelstar 7k1000 drives, Gigabyte GA-B250N Phoenix-WIFI motherboard, Samsun 960 EVO 500GB M.2 SSD, Silverstone ML088-H case, Corsair SF450 SFX power supply, LG 24UD58-B 24" $K monitor. All this, plus keyboard, mouse, and cables fit in a Pelican Storm iM2750 Case for travel (airline checkable, just under 50lbs).

Great CPU. 35 Watts is awesome.

Anyone who knows their way around a BIOS knows they can achieve similar results undervolting and reducing the multiplier of an i7-7700k, and the advantage is having an unlocked chip for the day when you're not doing a low wattage build. However, out of the box, the chip performs similar to a locked i7-4770 or i7-3770k, which is still rather impressive give it's power to performance ratio. The Intel GPU is decent enough for 4k video playback, and light gaming/older titles. The GPU is an improvement over Haswell based chips and older. This chip is probably better than an APU for iGPU gaming, given the range of titles that work well with iGPUs (both AMD and Intel). For example, a game like the Witcher 3, will hit a CPU bottleneck (large open world) on an APU, and a GPU bottleneck (textures, AA, filters, etc.) on an i7, but on both still hit only 25fps on either (as examples, users may tweak setting to get better results). A game like DOTA is neither GPU, nor CPU demanding and runs fine on either iGPU on lowest settings at around 720p.I'd say for anyone that doesn't want to mess around with BIOS settings on this chips identical cousin, then it's probably one of the best options at the time of writing for home servers, HTPCs, and any number of builds that are energy/heat friendly. AMD's Ryzen 7 1700 probably has a similar power to performance ratio, but lacks an iGPU (which may not matter depending upon the build), but it has double the cores and a 65 watt TDP.

This thing is amazing. Runs on low wattage and bursts to outperform chips of the same top speed. I traded this into a low wattage system so I could upgrade the video card (micro ITX). I couldn’t be happier.