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Intel's Coffee Lake a Double Edged Sword..!? Thoughts on the i5-8400 & i7-8700K

2017-10-07
so coffee leak has been released and where are my results well there was a mixup and I was supposed to be sent a CPU with my motherboard but that didn't happen and then there's another source where I'm getting another CPU motherboard from and that's delayed as well so in the meantime I'll have my results out in the next few days but I also wanted to talk about what's out there at the moment and there's some very solid results already been released of course and I want to talk about the coffee lake situation in general the first thing of course is the scarcity of these CPUs and it's looking like this is very true and it's the first time where I've seen an overclockable I 5 variant not being released side by side it's Big Brother the i7 so in this case we have the 80 600 k not really in stock anywhere but we've got the i7 8700 k that's been released and it's been sold out already however there's also two CPUs that I really like from this lineup that's the i5 8400 and also the i7 8700 K however that first problem the scarcity this could be a double-edged sword for Intel we're in that if they don't have the supplies available that unimaginable Ike well I'm not gonna buy a cabbie like CPU because the coffee like the new CPUs a much better value for money and so if they can't buy a coffee like CPU then this may in fact drive sales towards Rison which is currently in supply stocks are really good and also the value for money is really good so the second problem I wanted to talk about before we talk about the CPUs themselves is the fact that they've only released one motherboard and that's a Z 370 lineup and they haven't released the cheaper variants like the beef 360 or the cheaper H variants and this spells a little bit of a problem especially for people getting into PC gaming and they want good value for money and they want to buy that I 580 400 which is easily looking like it's really good value for money and may end up being the best CPU and the coffee like line up I just have to test the numbers I can't wait to do that but if they can't couple that with the chief of motherboard like you count risin for instance you can get a risin 5 1600 a be 350 motherboard if you can't do that on the Intel lineup then this could score problems for Intel especially in the next months so these cheaper motherboards are rumored to come out in the next three months however in the meantime you can only buy an i-5 8400 and a Z 370 motherboard which is kind of pointless if you don't want to overclock and you have no intentions of overclocking then you can save some money and especially if you're buying an 8400 it's an on overclockable cpu so those two points aside though let's talk about the i-5 8400 first this is looking like it's my favorite CPU of the lineup as its going to be bringing some strict competition to the horizon 5 1600 which is a v6 core 12 threaded variant and this was easily my favorite CPU of the whole Verizon lineup it was just the balanced King it's so relevant in 2017 it's so good for productivity for people on a budget it's also really good for gaming and so the i5 8400 in ways spells competition to this Rison v 1600 variant it's really good value for money getting sick cause 6 threads but you're also getting that better IPC from Intel's lineup however with clock speeds are gonna be checking this out doing a lot of gaming benchmarks and seeing how it stacks up against the horizon 5 1600 both stock and overclock and I believe this will be a very good comparison for you guys but in the meantime with the scarcity of coffee like CPUs and if you wanted to build a new piece in you wanted to go the Intel route then I'd probably recommend buying the CPU now the 8400 so it doesn't get sold out later on holding on to it and then waiting for a chief of motherboard if you want some of the best value for money and you want to go with that Intel option so the next thing I wanted to talk about was the i7 8700 K this is definitely going to be a competitive CPU in the market for people looking for that productivity CPU but also something that it will be easily the gaming king it has the IPC the same as the 7700 K but in a lot of ways it is looking like it is overclocking a bit higher on average I've heard of a lot of people already getting 5.2 gigahertz and even without D letting so I can't wait to get mine deal it at see how high can overclock it and also on that note I believe this CPU is gonna be cannibalizing Intel's own higher-end cpu's I can't imagine anyone going out and buying a 7800 X or a 78 20x now that the coffee lake 8700 K is released and in way as the 7900 X is also a big ask as well if you need those extra PCIe lands and you want to go Intel then that CPU is a lot more expensive over $700 more expensive than the coffee lake variant and it doesn't perform a whole lot better and in some ways it won't perform as good even in productivity where some applications are still single and not multi-threaded supported like for instance Adobe Audition if you want to edit audio that's still or noise removal for example that's still single thread independent so in ways the 8700 K won't just be the gaming king it may in some ways be the productivity king for some people with some applications however on that note even though it's cannibalizing intel's own line up it will be a very competitive cpu we've already seen the numbers coming out with the Cinebench scores people are getting around 1600 if they overclock a high enough they get near 1700 points this is coming into the horizon 7 1800 X territory when it's overclocked and risin 7 the 8 core variant was indeed AMD's balance King in my opinion it did gaming very well and it also does streaming and productivity very well and it is a lot cheaper than the horizon thread Ripper CPUs and it also does gaming better than the risin thread ripper sea views on the run thread versus abusive warning at the same performance you have to disable your cause which I did disagree with doing on the X 399 line up so 2017 is stacking up to be one of the best years in tech history for the consumers we're all winning here when competition comes around we're all gonna be definitely loving the value for money we're getting risin 5 1600 now we've got the Intel coffee like response and they are pretty good value for money as well however they do have some problems which of outlined in today's video and how this is gonna spell in the next three months is anyone's guess I do think it will be a little bit of a problem especially if people wanting to get on the Intel lineup and if they can't get the CPUs I mean for instance they're already sold out in Australia and these supplies are reported to be very limited so whether this actually drives more sales towards Verizon as well remains to be seen or whether people are that patient and they're going to wait until suppliers come back in or if people want to get for instance the i3 8100 Intel's budget for core which actually looks like it's coming in at a very good price as well and wait for a very cheap $50 motherboard from Intel remains to be seen so anyway guys I hope you enjoyed my thoughts and opinions video today on coffee like if you did then be sure to give it a big thumbs up if you have any questions or comments and be sure to drop a comma in the comment section below I mean what do you guys think of the new coffee late release I mean I think it's a great thing for consumers but in the other hand if the supplies are very limited yeah this could be a double-edged sword for Intel remains to be seen what's going to play out but I love reading your comments as always and I'll catch you in another tech video very soon peace out for now bye
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