Intel Core i7-8700K 3.7 GHz

[TXST Guardian]

Go 1700 or 1600... all ryzens can pretty much hit 3.9-4ghz... save money, get a good board and good gfx. 5ghz 8700k hits stock 1800x multithreaded... 3.6ghz on any ryzen chip is pie. .. clock it to 4ghz and you have a winner.

There's only a $10 difference between the two at mircocenter so that's why I was going with that , I will keep it in mind if the 1700 dips lower though.

 

[Fluffmeister]

Seems to be great CPU, nice balance of cores and clock speed.

Ebuyer have it for pre-order @ £ 343.98, tempted...

 

[yogurt_21]

Ah look what the competition dragged in, Actual affordable high performance cpus. I like it. Getting to the point of having to replace CPU/Mem/Mobo/GPU. might have to plan it around this guy. Granted I'll likely do it next summer to hopefully hit the next gen of gpu's. All the kinks should be worked out by then for this platform.

 

[Raptor_i]

"6-cores, large multi-threaded gains over previous generation"

 

[Suka]

[QUOTE="

AMD only have a refresh in store for next year, at least Intel provided more cores.[/QUOTE]
They cant give more cores , can they?

 

[KarymidoN]

Was waiting for this to make the decision between going Ryzen 1700X and 8700K. I think I'll go with the 1700X since it $100 cheaper and buy a better X370 board.

you might wanna wait till Q12018 for ZEN+ (they will be AM4/X370/B350) and better than the actual R7/R5 line-up.

 

[zAAm]

This 8700K is actually best of both worlds. It has plenty of threads and also clocks ridiculously high for single threaded stuff pretty much out of the box. It does great with multithreading and also runs games well where multi threads don't count all that much (yet). They could bump up the multi clocks to at least 4GHz, but I guess it's a good balance. Intel is doing similar to NVIDIA with graphics. The chips boost so high out of the box it almost defeats the purpose of overclocking and most people won't even see the need to do that.

I have to agree with you, it bridges that gap where people would like to have more cores whilst not sacrificing gaming performance. Count me as impressed

 

[xkm1948]

This is awesome.

Now if Intel brings out a mainstream 8 core 16 threads that can easily get to 5GHz on air. Damn that would REALLY up the game.


On a side note,

How does a 4GHz RyZen 8 core 16 threads with high speed ram stack against a 5GHz Core I7 6 core 12 threads? I bet 99% RyZen owners will go for at least DDR4-3000 and RyZen does benefit greatly from overclocked RAM.

 

[nickbaldwin86]

Ordering!!!!

 

[Chaitanya]

That 1700x is looking more attractive with 2 extra cores and 4 extra threads.

 

[ZoneDymo]

it just smells of "quickly get something out to compete!!!!" coming from Intel.
Well too little too late imo, I would recommend going for Ryzen over this.

 

[FlanK3r]

And do not forfet, results in graohs are not at Intel spec, but at multicore turbo settings, thats mean CPU working at 4.7GHz in load (non avx load)...3,7GHz is only paper, not reality

 

[lyndonguitar]

I'm impressed with the 8700k, I'm gonna buy it soon. But I'm more impressed with the G4560, By far the best budget CPU I have seen. could go toe to toe with and even surpass the i7s on some occasions

 

[Tomorrow]

1080p and 1440p tests seem to be more GPU than CPU limited. Perhaps test with 1080Ti instead of 1080 in the future @ W1zzard?
Also no temp graphs. In Hardware Unboxed video he's sample went to 5,2Ghz but at 97c at load. Ouch.

Better question is what use is the high OC potential if you can't use it without buying AIO or custom loop and voiding warranty in the process?
Sure you can OC to a point but after that it gets too hot and throttles back down so net gain=0

 

[lyndonguitar]

1080p and 1440p tests seem to be more GPU than CPU limited. Perhaps test with 1080Ti instead of 1080 in the future @ W1zzard?
Also no temp graphs. In Hardware Unboxed video he's sample went to 5,2Ghz but at 97c at load. Ouch.

Better question is what use is the high OC potential if you can't use it without buying AIO or custom loop and voiding warranty in the process?
Sure you can OC to a point but after that it gets too hot and throttles back down so net gain=0

Voiding warranty? you mean with delidding?

 

[Tomorrow]

Voiding warranty? you mean with delidding?

Yes.

 

[dicktracy]

1080p and 1440p tests seem to be more GPU than CPU limited. Perhaps test with 1080Ti instead of 1080 in the future @ W1zzard?
Also no temp graphs. In Hardware Unboxed video he's sample went to 5,2Ghz but at 97c at load. Ouch.

Better question is what use is the high OC potential if you can't use it without buying AIO or custom loop and voiding warranty in the process?
Sure you can OC to a point but after that it gets too hot and throttles back down so net gain=0

Pretty much. Other reviewers without a GPU bottleneck puts Coffee Lake noticably above others.

 

[xorbe]

Maybe I'm crazy, but all the benched CPUs look pretty good: fast, faster, fastest.

 

[dirtyferret]

This line by wizard from the i5-8400 review is what sticks out to me about all these coffee lake chips.

For gaming, things are different. Here, the i5-8400 breezes past all AMD Ryzens thanks to its high per-thread performance and the boost clock of 4.0 GHz. I find it surprising that there is very little difference between the i5-8400, i5-8600K, and i7-8700K in gaming, even at the highly CPU-limited scenario of 720p. This suggests that today's games see limited gains from more than four cores. It is good news for gamers on a budget because a Core i5-8400 will be completely sufficient to not bottleneck even the fastest graphics cards.

 

[theeldest]

I'm still happy with my 1800x. Intel can go eat a bag of dicks. They could have released a mainstream 6-core CPU 3-5 years ago but didn't until AMD forced their hand.

 

[erixx]

7700K, standing strong, owner resting now.

 

[Slizzo]

And do not forfet, results in graohs are not at Intel spec, but at multicore turbo settings, thats mean CPU working at 4.7GHz in load (non avx load)...3,7GHz is only paper, not reality

.... That is literally Intel's spec. single core turbo of 4.7GHz. All core turbo is 4.4GHz I believe.

 

[ShurikN]

No temps again?

Tom's ran it at 4.9GHz on a 420mm rad AIO and it reached 90° during gaming.
Looks to me TPU got a heavily binned chip and you are more likely to get a similar chip from a store as Tom's did. If you can find in stores as this looks like a huge paper launch if other tech sites are to believe.

 

[birdie]

So many falsehoods from blind AMD fanboys it's just staggering.

1) No, Intel couldn't have released these 6 core parts several years ago. They absolutely needed a new refined 14nm process, because you can easily see that 8700(K) is a lot more power efficient than 7800X. Most users will never want 140W TDP in their desktop computers (6 core SkyLake-X CPUs).
2) 6 core Coffee Lake parts were on Intel roadmaps way before AMD released Zen.
3) For games Coffee Lake CPUs are unconditionally better than any Zen based CPUs because even in 2017 most games are bottlenecked by single core CPU performance where Intel is unrivaled due to higher performance per clock (IPC) and also higher attainable frequencies.

There's only thing I don't like about Coffee Lake CPUs: Intel is mum about the 300 series chipset compatibility with Cannonlake and Ice Lake CPUs. I've never actually upgraded CPUs but it's important for many other users.

 

[mcraygsx]

Now it is up to Software Developers to catch up with multi core CPU's.