Should I be excited or should I yawn? For those who don’t know … it still uses 14nm technology and watch out for the high TDP of 125W!
Taken from Videocardz … Intel Core i7-11700K is a next-gen 8-core and 16-thread unclocked processor from the Rocket Lake-S series. These processor series are now rumored to be announced on March 16th. The CPU manufacturer had not, however, confirmed the specifications or the pricing of the new series. Technically, Core i7-11700K does not even exist.
Enter Mindfactory, one of the biggest retailers in Germany, already selling the new CPUs and even admitting that no embargo has been breached in the process. Just 2 days after the first reports of the 11th Gen series going on sale, we have reports from first customers who already received the processor from said store.
Being a German store, which often only delivers products to German customers, we have various leaks on Core i7-11700K performance from popular German tech forums, such as HardwareLuxx, PC Games Hardware or ComputerBase. Each of those forums has its own separate threads dedicated to the Mindfactory’s prelaunch sale of the processor.
The sales of Core i7-11700K are just another development in a very unusual and to this date unseen product launch by Intel. The chaos surrounding the release of Z590 motherboards, many of which have only been shown recently, others were never sampled to reviewers, were supposed to be fully compatible with Intel Rocket Lake-S processors at launch.
Source: Videocardz
