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Review on Intel Core i7-8700K: Unleash the Power of 6 Cores, Turbo Boost up to 4.7GHz – Perfect for LGA1151 300 Series Desktops! by Wiktor Krel ᠌

Revainrating 2 out of 5

The product is faulty in some way, I definitely won't buy it again.

I bought a CPU under the impression of reviews on youtube - they said that this is the best processor for games, that it is cold and the thermal paste is of high quality compared to 7700K. What can I say, I shouldn't have trusted the tests. Let's start with the most important thing: 95 W TDP is declared . this is a blatant, blatant lie! Since I was not going to drive it up to 5 GHz, I thought that was enough and put DeepCool Gammaxx 300 with TDP 130 - AS IF THERE IS NO THIS COOLER, the percent does not feel it! Then I installed Zalman's performance (people run FXs up to 5 GHz on it!) - a little later, but again the temperatures are 80-90 with jumps up to 100, and the radiator is not even hot! What is the use of this performance if the percentage throttles constantly? And not a single "tester" and "reviewer" will say a word about this problem! What for? They scalp them and change the chewing gum for ZhM. Why not? They, unlike us, in case of an unsuccessful scalp, they will send another one and they have nothing to worry about the guarantee. I don't want to scalp the percentage and lose the warranty, but I'm sure it will be needed at such temperatures. No matter what they say about "normal 100 degrees", it will be bent in a year! I did not think that such a world-famous company as Intel would deal with such nonsense. In general, I am very upset with this processor, it never corresponds to its value.

Pros
  • 6 cores; high performance per core; high fps in games
Cons
  • hot as a blacksmith's oven; the price bites; at the slightest acceleration, the heat does not have time to "spread" to the lid and the percent throttles; requires a cooling system >250W TDP.