We have covered Intel's Kaby Lake microarchitecture on a few occasions already. We outlined the architectural details in this piece, and have evaluated a handful of mobile devices powered by Kaby Lake at this point, including the gorgeous Asus ZenBook 3 and updated Dell XPS 13. Today, however, Kaby Lake makes its official debut on the desktop, with a brand-new flagship quad-core processor ? the Core i7-7700K ? and newly refreshed 200 series motherboard chipsets.

The Core i7-7700K has hardly been a secret. The processors actually went on sale at a couple of major on-line retailers recently and benchmark numbers have been trickling out for weeks now. We?ve got one in house for testing, along with some new memory from G.SKILL and a few killer motherboards from Gigabyte and Asus, built around the Z270 chipset...