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welcome back to hardware unboxed in today's video we're going to continue exploring the gaming experience on the Intel Core i7 8700 5g which is one of Intel's 65 watt KB rectory variants that comes equipped with a quad-core CPU and AMD Radeon Erik's bag and graphics there's already a full review of this processor up on the channel and we've already covered a bunch of games in part 1 of this series so check out both of those things if you haven't done so already in today's video I'll be continuing our exploration of cable 8g gaming with a look at 13 games including some titles that you guys requested on the last video nothing has changed since last time we'll simply be looking at how playable these games are on kb like g or what settings and at what level of performance every game here has been run at 1080p resolution and for the most part I've targeted 60fps once again I'm testing everything on the Dell XPS 15 to in one with the core i7 87 o5g and 16 gigabytes of ddr4 2400 memory this is the 65 watt configuration of KB Lake G with a Radeon rx Vega M GPU the packs are cut down 20 compute units in terms of raw power it sits around the level of the gtx 1050 and gtx 1050 TI so let's see how it gets on in some more games overwatch is still a super popular game and what I'm not particularly good at in any case if I was good at overwatch I'd enjoy playing on the 87 o5g at 1080p with medium settings which are the perfect settings for 100-plus FPS at most times even in super intense situations can be like June never did for high eighty FPS or so and the experience in general is really smooth one of the best games in terms of performance on this processor far cry 5 is visually beautiful and well optimized particular and AMD GPUs despite being a modern title the 87 or 5g was actually able to play this game on the high preset with frame rates consistently in the mid 40s it is possible to achieve 60fps by significantly reducing the quality sayings however I think the high pro set gives a great mix of visual quality and performance I never saw dips below 30fps and you can bank on a pretty consistent 45 fps or so throughout the game civilization six is a game I think is perfect for playing anywhere and is well suited to laptops with medium settings and no anti-aliasing I hit around 35 to 40 fps in the benchmark which is representative of the late game experience we're mostly CPU limited here rather than GPU limited but as it's a strategy game this sort of performance is acceptable and perfectly playable so another tick for KB Lake G Kingdom Come deliverance is the game I've personally been playing recently and it's poorly optimized to say the least although it can look good at maximum sayings at times with KB like G you'll need to play the game on the lowest possible quality settings though where you'll get 40 to 60 FPS in the more populated towns and there can be a bit of stuttering although that's not unusual even on high-end gaming pcs the game suffers visually the low settings though if you really want to play it the 87 o5g can handle it I really liked pray when it came out last year it's another game that can be played pretty easily on kb lake g with the high preset delivering mid 40 FPS in the larger and more graphically intensive areas of the game you get a slightly higher frame rate using the northern preset but i found the game really playable on high Rainbow six ages are well-optimized Ubisoft titled that just runs smoothly on a wide range of hardware with the 87 or 5g I found the medium preset to be suitable delivering above 90 FPS in most situations which is what you want in a shooter like this you could play at higher quality presets for better visual quality but medium is great for the performance it delivers watchdogs to is one of the most intensive titles I tested despite being released in 2016 using the medium preset you can get around 40 FPS at 1080p and that doesn't improve significantly when you shift it down to the low preset so there's not much point doing so the game hammers both the CPU and GPU that remains playable on the a 705 G Batman Arkham Knight looks visually stunning on the 87 o 5gn you can actually play it on maximum settings with game works disables and achieve 40 to 60 FPS when playing around the city in the most intensive areas you will fall down to around that 40 FPS mark but in a game that looks amazing on the high settings you may as well leave it there because you can did you really believe that I the Riddler would fall for such a naked Liam little charade dirt-poor is a simple affair you want 60fps for a driving game and the high preset with CMA aliens get you there with that preset selected the game runs really well and if you want to push the frame rate higher there's plenty of scope to do so with lower quality settings or it's six of a crest don't cap right six one hand of about 60 right five different caps and reckful dispensed 100 that's all and right six into left five right for long don't cap and right six don't cut 200 200 over bumps 100 next six fallout four isn't well optimized intends to break quite often however you guys requested it so here it is with the medium preset and FXAA set to low you'll get around 50 to 60 fps in the most intensive city areas without any mods installed hopefully fallout 76 is a bit better optimized for modern hardware when it's released later this year on for some reason my Game Capture didn't get audio for this title so while the footage for fallout 4 is still playing I'll talk about the one game that really didn't work on the 87 o5g and that's Middle Earth shadow of war I think there's a bug with this game at the moment that prevents you from setting a render resolution on KB Lake G so the game ends up rendering at 5:40 P which looks horrible it's not a great game anyway so I guess it's not a big loss but not everything works fully at least on this processor one game that does run well though is csgo at competitive settings using the lowest detail levels at 1080p but of course with multi-core rendering enabled I was able to get over 100 FPS in most game situations sometimes well over a hundred FPS you want to run this game at the highest possible framerate and cable HP does a good job of getting there Mass Effect Andromeda is a game I can't imagine too many people are still playing in any case the medium preset was best for this game delivering 60fps in the intensive tempest area with occasional dips down to the 50s you'll get high frame rates on most planets but this is the preset that delivers the best ore and experience final game for this video is The Witcher 3 one of my all-time favorite games despite being released in 2015 you won't be able to run the game particularly well on KB like Jeep the medium preset delivered around 40 FPS in the cities but there was a weird bit of stuttering present and a fair bit of input lag as well that made the game unpleasant to play going with lower quality settings didn't improve it all that much either which is a bit disappointing you look fucking amazing and that's all the games we've tested on cable AG in total I looked at 25 games across the two videos and except for one game everything was playable on around medium quality settings some games like The Witcher 3 and hitman did start it a bit and have a few issues but others in particular competitive games like overwatch fortnight and csgo all ran really well on the i7 87 o5g that's it for this one if you have any questions about Kb like G feel free to chuck them in the description boy or ask me on our exclusive patreon discord channel don't forget to check our other cable HG content and I'll catch you in the next one you