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 Stanisaw Lem ᠌

Name: Intel Core i7-8700K: Unleash the Power of 6 Cores, Turbo Boost up to 4.7GHz – Perfect for LGA1151 300 Series Desktops!
Item: Intel Core i7-8700K: Unleash the Power of 6 Cores, Turbo Boost up to 4.7GHz – Perfect for LGA1151 300 Series Desktops!
Rating: 5

May 03, 2023

The perfect product for any user!

For a stable FPS in any game, it’s enough without problems, it doesn’t strain at all during games (with the exception of Supreme Commander, because it only uses 1 core and the game starts to lag when 100500 units appear on the map, live with it). I also render videos. 5 minutes at 1080p at 60 FPS with a bitrate of 28 million bps is done in 13.5 minutes, although with the FX 6300 I would have rendered such videos for 35-45 minutes most likely.

This processor works together with the MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING Z graphics card and HyperX Predator Black 16GB DDR4 2666 MHz CL13 (2x8GB) RAM

Pros

- Powerful [more powerful than even the next generation, 9900k doesn't seem to outperform much, 4% somewhere, but it costs 15 thousand more] - I didn't think of anything else.

Cons

- Very high heat dissipation. It is indicated in the specifications that the power dissipation is 95 W, however, on my second computer I have an AMD FX 6300 with a similar power dissipation and the coolers for Intel and AMD are approximately the same, but the FX heats up to a maximum of 59 degrees. Intel heats up to 85 degrees. Later I found out that this was due to not very thoughtful air circulation in the case, however, even with the cover removed, max. temperature 75 degrees, still 15 degrees warmer than AMD! And they said that AMD is almost a stove, but for now it turns out to be the opposite, by the way, the TOP Ryzen, as I saw from the reviews, is also colder than the i7 8700k. So if you take it, then buy accordingly and the cooling is not bad, I have a DEEPCOOL GAMMAXX 300 R DP-MCH3-GMX300RD cooler and I don’t overclock if the temperature is like this, it’s better to buy something better, of course, although in principle it is enough kind of like, but after AMD, 75 degrees of temperature strains a little. I will not put one point minus in the overall assessment, because it is more likely that my expectations were not met (and those were compiled from the words of several "experts"), but again I expected that this CPU would be colder.