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Review on 💻 Intel Core i7-8700 Desktop Processor: 6 Core, Up to 4.6 GHz, LGA 1151 300 Series, 65W Power Consumption by Michal Wasowicz

Revainrating 5 out of 5

Wonderful quality, one hundred percent satisfied!

In a GTA5 game paired with an NVIDIA GTX 1070 graphics card (everything at max. 1920x1080), the load is about 30%. My temperature did not rise above 60 degrees (Zalman CNPS10X OPTIMA cooler, the case is well ventilated). In the BIOS, I immediately disabled Intel Speed ​​Step and Intel Speed ​​Shift, otherwise the frequency dropped to 800MHz! Without them, it keeps around 4.3GHz. By the way, what Intel writes 4.6GHz in Turbo-mode is the frequency of only one first core! It is a pity that overclocking with a locked multiplier is almost impossible, although I judge by the previous i5-6500, I have not tried this one and do not plan to overclock. A stone in Intel's garden is that they made an artificial incompatibility of new processors with old ones. boards on the Z170, although they are structurally suitable. The difference in performance with the i5-6500 is from 30% to 50%, but 6 cores and 12 threads allow you to use it for home virtualization, you can do all sorts of experiments and labs with virtual machines without any servers.

Pros
  • + cheaper than the K-version by almost 5000r + for BOX-version 36 months warranty. + regular overclocking in Turbo-mode up to 4.6GHz + 6 cores 12 threads, high performance
Cons
  • - low nominal frequency 3.2GHz - no manual overclocking