Testseek.com have collected 418 expert reviews of the Intel Core i7 8700K 3.7GHz Socket 1151 and the average rating is 88%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i7 8700K 3.7GHz Socket 1151.
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The best CPU for gaming
Strong out-of-the-box clock speed
Intel's six-cores beat AMD's eight-cores in many production tasks
Offers substantial gains over Skylake and Kaby Lake in multithreaded apps
6-core in a mainstream Intel chip
36% multi-core performance improvement over the i7-7700K
Can easily overclock to 5.0 GHz
Single-core performance improvements
Beats Ryzen in gaming performance
Platform has 40 PCI-Express 3.0 lanes
Strong performance in games and productivity applications
Lower priceperthread than competition
Overclocking headroom
50 percent more cores and threads (and higher boost clocks) than previous-gen mainstream chips
Incredible single-threaded performance, 6-cores, large multi-threaded gains over previous generation, Competitive pricing, HyperThreading included, Excellent overclocking potential, Unlocked multiplier
New motherboards required, Only small improvements in gaming
The Intel Core i7-8700K retails for $380. Incredible single-threaded performance 6-cores, large multi-threaded gains over previous generation Competitive pricing HyperThreading included Excellent overclocking potential Unlocked multiplier New motherb...
6-core in a mainstream Intel chip, 36% multi-core performance improvement over the i7-7700K, Can easily overclock to 5.0 GHz, Single-core performance improvements, Beats Ryzen in gaming performance, Platform has 40 PCI-Express 3.0 lanes
New motherboard needed, Sort of upsetting if you've bought an i7-7700K recently
As you can see from our results on the previous page this is not an ordinary processor update from Intel. The 8th Generation Core Desktop series is bringing with it increases in core counts finally! We are going to see 6-core i5's and i7's and even quad-c...
Published: 2017-10-05, Author: Steven , review by: techspot.com
Great for highend gaming and competent at productivity. Offers better allaround performance than the 7700K. One hell of an overclocker
Relatively expensive compared to Ryzen. Expect to spend $550for the chip, a motherboard and a nice cooler
Intel's new mainstream flagship Core i7 processor is a beast. For gamers seeking the ultimate solution there is simply nothing better than the Core i7-8700K. Out of the box performance is incredible, overclocking is even more incredible, power consumption...
Abstract: It was just nine months ago when we said the Kaby Lake flagship was the chip we've been waiting for. Now, just three quarters later, Kaby Lake has effectively been wiped off the map. The king is dead. Long live the king!The Intel Core i7-8700K, formerly k...
50 percent more cores and threads (and higher boost clocks) than previous-gen mainstream chips, Best gaming performance we've seen at 1080p, when paired with a GTX 1080, Consistently tops AMD's similarly priced Ryzen 7 1700X
Higher MSRP than Core i7-7700K, Requires a new motherboard, despite Z370 chipset offering no substantive new features
With high clocks and hexa-core design, Intel's top 8th Generation/"Coffee Lake" desktop CPU impresses as a mainstream "do-it-all" processor. It's an excellent gamer, too, when paired with a high-end video card (though Coffee Lake Core i5s can be a better...
With Coffee Lake Intel has a very fast processor series offering available for the masses. You can complain about pricing in comparison to the much cheaper Ryzen 5 1600X (229 EURO) but purely seen from a performance perspective, the Core i7 8700K is absol...
What to take from Core i7 8700K?That power draw with the 5 GHz overclock + overclock preset RX 580 8G is brilliant! I used the preset which pulled 1.30v for the 5.0 GHz. I am sure this can do better since its an ES chip, but I wanted to see how it will pe...
Published: 2017-10-05, Author: Ryan , review by: pcper.com
The performance story surrounding the 8th Generation Intel Core processors codenamed Coffee Lake is straightforward. Take the Kaby Lake parts that were already damned good, increase the core count in Core i7, Core i5, and Core i3 families, and also increa...
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Published: 2017-10-05, Author: Tom , review by: overclock3d.net
With the enormous sales figures that the mainstream Intel processors achieve it is always going to be in everyone's interest when a new model appears.Given the number of cores and performance that we saw when the Ryzen 7 processors appeared there was a si...
The Intel Core i7-8700K was an exciting processor to benchmark and overclock as Coffee Lake drastically improves performance at a minimal price increase. For $20 more than a 4-core, 8-thread Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake processor you can now get a 6-core, 12-t...
