Testseek.co.uk 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 editors liked
Huge six-core power
Highly overclockable
Stable and easy-to-use platform
Mighty single-core speeds
Cheaper than Ryzen 7 1800X
Big step forward in price/performance
Impressive power efficiency
Temperatures remain under control
Solid overclocking potential
One of the fastest consumer CPUs to date
6 Core 12 Thread design
Easily overclocks to 5 GHz on air
Can break 5.2 GHz on enthusiast cooling
Incredible 1080p gaming performance
Competitive 4K gaming performance
Powerful performance for productivity
Strong performance in games and productivity applications
Lower price-per-thread than competition
Overclocking headroom
One of the best for lightly threaded applications
Superfast
Mighty single-core speeds and gaming performance
Hyper-threading overtakes Ryzen
Low-impact overclocking
Six cores and high clock speed equals high performance
Intel IPC is superb
Simple overclocking with Z370 Aorus Gaming 7
Prices have been held steady from 7th. Gen
The editors didn't like
Doesn't compete with Ryzen 1700 or 1700X on price
Not compatible with older motherboards
Z370 fails to be a major update to the chipset
Not backwards compatible
Requires a new Z370 motherboard
“Many may be on the fence with the whole Z370 motherboard upgrade
But if you’re looking to build a new system right now
Or upgrade one that’s got a few years on the clock
The i7-8700K is a killer piece of hardware for a
Z-series motherboard requirement
Overclocking tax
High price
Cheaper 8-core Ryzens offer similar multi-core performance
Published: 2017-10-05, Author: Mark , review by: arstechnica.com
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
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
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...
It's hard to know where to start here. Besides the exciting times of finally seeing more than 4 cores on the mainstream desktop platform, all 6 cores come out swinging. Intel's i7-8700K consistently placed at or very near the top of all of our benchmark r...
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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...
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...
