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.
October 2017
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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
Published: 2017-10-05, Author: Jeff , review by: Techreport.com
It's time to condense all of our test results into our famous value scatter plots. We use a geometric mean of all of our real-world results to ensure that no one test has an undue impact on the overall index. First up, let's look at gaming performance. T...
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...
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...
Published: 2017-10-05, Author: Dr. , review by: techarp.com
Abstract: The 8th Generation Intel Core processors, codenamed Coffee Lake, are the first Intel processor family to garner so much interest in recent history. Thanks to the Ryzen Effect, Intel is finally increasing the number of processor cores across the board...
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...
Published: 2017-10-05, Author: Michael , review by: phoronix.com
Abstract: 2017 has been an interesting year for processors with AMD's long awaited introduction of the Zen-based Ryzen / Threadripper / EPYC processors, Intel's Core X-Series processors for high-end desktops, the Xeon Scalable processor family introduction, and now...
Published: 2017-10-05, Author: Paul , review by: tomshardware.com
Strong performance in games and productivity applications, Lower priceperthread than competition, Overclocking headroom
Zseries motherboard requirement, Overclocking tax
Intel finally expanded the core count of its mainstream processors, facilitating solid all-around performance from the Core i7-8700K. Aggressive Turbo Boost bins ensure great performance in lightly-threaded workloads, while six cores cut through deman...
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...
