Intel Coffee Lake i7 8700K Review
x265 Benchmark
Published: 5th October 2017 | Source: Intel | Price: £359 |
x265
Whilst certain tests, as we've seen so far, prefer cores to clock speed, others utilise all available performance to complete the task as quickly as possible. One such application is x265 video encoding, where the six cores of the i7-8700K handily best the 8 cores of the Ryzen 7 1800X, and also scale almost linearly with the performance we saw from the i7-7700K.
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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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Should I be drinking a large cup of tea or is only Coffee permissible when watching the video?Quote