Intel Coffee Lake i7 8700K Review
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Published: 5th October 2017 | Source: Intel | Price: £359 |
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Away from the synthetic benchmarks now and moving towards more real world ones and the Intel Core i7-8700K has an excellent showing, making light of the extra two cores on the Ryzen 7 1800X to trump it in every regard. Here of course we mean trump in the card game sense, not the screaming orange lunatic sense. You also get a good indication of how much benefit there is from turning on the Intel Multicore Enhancement.
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What a CPU. Very nice. Should have been here two years ago, but still, very nice.Quote
Certainly looks like a nice upgrade for quad core folks. Not for us Ryzen folks though. 
I'm content to boycott Intel until they regain their senses.Quote
I'm content to boycott Intel until they regain their senses.QuoteStill not quite enough to warrant an upgrade for me, I'll stick with my 4c/8t.Quote
So it's the end of the day: there are, literally 0 8700K's in the entire country and only a handful of boards (with insane prices). Both that CPU and the Apex have an estimated 10+ days to come into stock. It's abysimal and not a launch, worse than Skylake. Sorry but I'm giving this the finger until things become reasonable and actually available, what a letdown as I had plannend on building it Saturday.
Nice review Tom, thanks!! I have some 3333MHz RAM incoming for an Apex or Hero board (very likely the former) and if I don't use XMP but just set it manually, as I like to do, won't that prevent the SA and VCC to auto rise?Quote
Nice review Tom, thanks!! I have some 3333MHz RAM incoming for an Apex or Hero board (very likely the former) and if I don't use XMP but just set it manually, as I like to do, won't that prevent the SA and VCC to auto rise?Quote
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