Our picks of the best motherboards for the 12th Gen Intel Core i7-12700K processor. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

The Intel Core ... The unlocked Core i7-13700K has a special architecture with 16 cores—eight are performance cores, and the other eight are efficiency cores, with support for 24 threads.

The Test Center took a first look at the Core i7-965 Extreme Edition, installed in Intel's "SmackOver" motherboard ... integrated memory controllers have support for three channels of DDR3 ...