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Reviews of Intel Core i7 8700K 3.7GHz Socket 1151

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.
Award: Editor’s Choice October 2017
October 2017
 
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The editors liked

  • 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
  • Best gaming performance we've seen at 1080p
  • When paired with a GTX 1080
  • Consistently tops AMD's similarly priced Ryzen 7 1700X
  • Strong Multi-Thread Performance
  • Killer Single-Thread Performance
  • Relatively Low Power
  • High Overclocks
  • Swift response from Intel
  • Versatile chip
  • Cost-effective
  • Huge six-core power
  • Highly overclockable
  • Stable and easy-to-use platform
  • Mighty single-core speeds and gaming performance
  • Cheaper than Ryzen 7 1800X
  • Incredible single-threaded performance
  • 6-cores
  • Large multi-threaded gains over previous generation
  • Competitive pricing
  • HyperThreading included
  • Excellent overclocking potential
  • Unlocked multiplier
  • Great for highend gaming and competent at productivity. Offers better allaround performance than the 7700K. One hell of an overclocker

The editors didn't like

  • Still only 16 PCIe lanes on the CPU
  • Platform needs voltage tweaks to run at its best
  • Coffee Lake is the third "optimisation" of an existing architecture with no IPC improvement
  • The 8700K runs very hot and pulls a lot of watts
  • You can overclock to over
  • New motherboard needed
  • Sort of upsetting if you've bought an i7-7700K recently
  • Zseries motherboard requirement
  • Overclocking tax
  • Higher MSRP than Core i7-7700K
  • Requires a new motherboard
  • Despite Z370 chipset offering no substantive new features
  • Requires New Motherboards
  • Despite Using LGA1151 Socket
  • Not All Unlocked
  • Temperatures high on launch
  • Little change except core count
  • Doesn't compete with Ryzen 1700 or 1700X on price
  • Cheaper 8-core Ryzens offer similar multi-core performance
  • Not compatible with older motherboards
  • New motherboards required
  • Only small improvements in gaming
  • Relatively expensive compared to Ryzen. Expect to spend $550for the chip
  • A motherboard and a nice cooler

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  Published: 2017-10-10, Author: Alex , review by: gizmodo.com.au

  • This is a question I keep mulling over. If you're building a brand new PC and investing in a new motherboard then the 8th Generation Intel Coffee Lake processors are worth a look. Particularly if you game o...

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  Published: 2017-10-06, review by: tweaktown.com

  • The i7-8700K and i5-8400 are a step in the right direction. That direction is the move towards more cores, and what the industry needed was for both sides to release mainstream 6-core parts. While 6-core parts have existed for many generations, they have...

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  Published: 2017-10-05, Author: Gordon , review by: goodgearguide.com.au

  • Ultimately how we judge the Core i7-8700K comes down to two areas: Performance and price.In performance, it's pretty clear Core i7-8700K is an impressive CPU. With its high clock speeds and efficient micro-architecture, it punches out of its weight class...

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  Published: 2018-09-25, review by: futurefive.co.nz

  • Abstract:  Is upgrading to Intel's 8th generation of CPUs a worthwhile investment? FutureFive's Darren Price takes a look at the Intel Core i7-8700K.It's been a year since I road-tested Intel's 7th generation Core i7-7700K Kaby Lake CPU. The chip has been running th...

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  Published: 2017-10-06, Author: Gordon , review by: pcworld.co.nz

  • Ultimately how we judge the Core i7-8700K comes down to two areas: Performance and price.In performance, it's pretty clear Core i7-8700K is an impressive CPU. With its high clock speeds and efficient micro-architecture, it punches out of its weight class...

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  Published: 2019-03-10, Author: Luca , review by: ocaholic.ch.english

  • Abstract:  There is a variety of customer groups in need of as much processing power as possible. Especially in the field of content creation, which includes editing pictures and videos or even rendering a complex scenery with beautiful effects, performance improvem...

 
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  Published: 2019-03-05, Author: Luca , review by: ocaholic.ch.english

  • Abstract:  There is a variety of customer groups in need of as much processing power as possible. Especially in the field of content creation, which includes editing pictures and videos or even rendering a complex scenery with beautiful effects, performance improvem...

 
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  Published: 2018-11-08, Author: Luca , review by: ocaholic.ch.english

  • Abstract:  These days there are basically two different groups of customers who demand lots of processing power: content creators and gamers, while this 2D performance comparison is targeting content creators. After having had a look at the following pages you'll ha...

 
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  Published: 2018-07-13, Author: Reinoud , review by: uk.hardware.info

  • For those who occasionally play a game, the integrated graphics card may be sufficient, as long as the game in question does not boast too much graphic splendour. In order to find out when the iGPUs fail and when a separate card is needed, we did test som...

 
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  Published: 2018-05-25, Author: Paul , review by: tomshardware.co.uk

  • Abstract:  It's the age-old question that has spurred endless debate: AMD or Intel? Today, that rivalry has reached new heights with AMD's Ryzen 2000 Series, often referred to by users (but not AMD) as "Ryzen 2," competing against Intel's 8th Gen "Coffee Lake" for d...

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