i7 6700 or i7 7700 ?

[steveharman]

Currently both these CPUs are on sale with Amazon in the UK:

the i7 6700:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B010T6DQTQ/?tag=tonymacx86-21

and the i7 7700:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B01MXSI216/?tag=tonymacx86-21

There's around £30 difference in price but for some reason the 7700 doesn't seem to feature in the tonymac Buyer's Guide. Presumably support for this processor isn't available yet in macOS Sierra ?

Thanks,

Steve

 

[Fl0r!an]

It's possible to use the 7700K in macOS, but it's not supported OOB since Apple didn't ship any Macs with Kaby Lake CPUs yet, so it requires some extra work. There are various threads on this topic.

 

[Adrian B]

Kaby Lake hardware is still at the early adopters stage of development within the hack community at this point. Tonymacx86 has a dedicated thread for this hardware. I would be careful mixing a Sky Lake board with a Kaby Lake processor (or vice versa) as that may also add complexity to installation process for macOS Sierra.
https://www.tonymacx86.com/threads/...cpus-200-series-motherboards-in-macos.211743/