Intel 8th Generation Core i3 8350K and Core i5 8600K Review

Test Setup

Intel Core i3-8350K and Core i5-8600K
ASUS Z370-A Prime
Corsair ROG Dominator Platinum 3200 - Stock Tests
G.Skill Trident-Z 3600 - OC Tests
Corsair RM1000i
Corsair MP500 512GB
Corsair H110i GT
Windows 10

Overclocking

Core i3-8350K

Until now the Intel Core i3 has always been a processor which has been popularly used as the basis for a gaming system. A lot of games only use one or two cores, so having a stock i3 has allowed you to expend more of the budget on the all-important graphics. Intel seem to have agreed as you could never really push a Core i3 all that hard. The i3-8350K totally blows that concept out of the water though with a seriously beefy overclock, tying reasonable memory speeds to 5 GHz+ CPU speeds. Even if we got super-lucky with our review sample, it's still very impressive.

Intel Core i5-8600K

If you're just wanting the biggest possible clock speed, the Core i5-8600K will definitely pique your interest. For the purposes of our benchmark suite and it's testing - by which we mean difficult - methodology we were forced to clock down from our peak overclock to 5 GHz, but that's still hardly terrible. If you're not pumping endless harsh benchmarks through it then it's easily capable of 5.2 GHz as we discovered when pushing it on our Z370. We did however have to do our full suite of tests at 5.1GHz because we couldnt quite manage the get Blender 4K to pass even with more volts but we do think we a bit of extra time and tweaking we could probably get this'Blander stable'.