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i7 3820 3.8 OC faster than i7 7700K 4.8 OC in Windows
This is confusing me for some time. My old PC which has i7 3820 at 4.2GHZ works faster in Windows operations like browsing than my new PC with i7 7700K at 4.8GHz. The only difference is that the old PC has 16GB quad channel DDR3 memory while the new one has 16GB dual channel DDR4 memory and the old one has ATI 7970 and the new one has NVidia GTX 1070. Of course my new PC is much faster when running games, but when using Windows and doing stuff like browsing the old one is seriously snappier. Is higher memory bandwidth that important?