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 Stanislaw Gluszek ᠌

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 29, 2023

I really like the product, it fully meets my expectations.

With the exception of Supreme Commander, which only utilizes a single core, and the game begins to lag when 100,500 units arrive on the map, you will just have to learn to live with it if you want a consistent frame rate in any game. It is sufficient without any issues and doesn't strain at all during gameplay. I also render videos. Although it takes 13.5 minutes to render a video that is 5 minutes long and has a resolution of 1080p with a frame rate of 60 FPS and a bitrate of 28 million bps, the same video would have taken me between 35 and 45 minutes to render with the FX 6300.

The MSI GeForce RTX 2070 GAMING Z graphics card and the HyperX Predator Black 16GB DDR4 2666 MHz CL13 (2x8GB) RAM are both required for this processor to function properly.

Pros

- Powerful [more powerful than even the next generation, the 9900k doesn't seem to outperform much, somewhere about 4%, but it costs 15 thousand more] - I couldn't come up with anything else to say.

Cons

- A very high capacity to dissipate heat. The power dissipation is said to be 95 W in the specifications; however, on my second computer I have an AMD FX 6300 with a comparable power dissipation, and the cooling for Intel and AMD are roughly the same, yet the FX warms up to a maximum of 59 degrees Celsius. This is despite the fact that the coolers for Intel and AMD are approximately the same. Intel warms up to 85 degrees. Even with the lid removed, the maximum temperature reached 75 degrees, which is 15 degrees more than AMD! Later on, I discovered that this was because the case did not have very careful air circulation. And they mentioned that AMD is almost a stove, but for the time being it turns out to be the contrary. By the way, the TOP Ryzen, as I observed when I was reading the reviews, is also colder than the i7 8700k. It is recommended that you purchase something better, of course, although in theory it is sufficient kind of like, but after AMD, 75 degrees of temperature strains a little bit. If you decide to 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 is more likely that my expectations were not realized (and those were gathered from the words of various "experts"), but once again, I expected that this CPU would be colder. Despite this, I will not deduct one point from the overall rating because it is more likely that my expectations were not reached.