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 Mateusz Trzmiel ᠌

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

Good quality product, I rate this purchase excellent.

- When overclocked, it stably holds 4.7 GHz with a multiplier of 47 and a voltage of 1.27. But to remove heat, you will need either a good tower cooler or a water cooling system.
- Not compatible with LGA1151 v1 socket
- The release of Ryzen multi-core gave Intel a good kick, resulting in this gem. The speed with which the 8700K was launched into the series suggests that it was designed quite a long time ago and simply was not allowed into the series, either because of greed, or because of assumptions about the unpreparedness of the market for the mass production of six-core processors

Pros

- Six cores, twelve threads - Floating frequency: from 4.2 GHz idle to 4.7 GHz under load. Theoretically, it should work at a nominal frequency of 3.7, but the frequency is usually not lowered below 4.2 due to the features of Turbo Boost 2.0 technology - Advanced 14++nm process technology - Finally official support for DDR4-2666 SDRAM - Unlocked multiplier for 8700K - Very attractive price, $360 for a practically flagship

Cons

- TDP 95 W - a blatant lie, at full load the consumption reaches 125 W, even higher in stress tests - Under the cover, there is not metallized thermal paste, like AMD has, but some kind of misunderstanding, due to which even with good cooling (Noctua NH-U14S), an unoverclocked processor heats up to 65 degrees under load, in idle - about 30. In stress In the LinX 0.7.0A test, the temperature of one of the cores rose to 88 (at +22 in the room), the data was recorded by Core Temp 12022. Poor thermal interface limits overclocking potential