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2017 has seen really good competition to the CPU market especially thanks to Andy's rise in CPU lineup for instance you could get their rise in 5 1600 CPU with the cooler included and an inexpensive be 350 motherboard and overclock it to really good levels this represented extremely good value for money to the point where until seventh generation CPUs were no longer seen as a really decent option for people looking for good price performance however fast-forwarding to October 2017 marks the release of coffee'd Lake Intel's eighth generation CPUs some say this was rushed to market as a forced response to rising and quite frankly I agree the stock levels being quite low especially for the CPU I'm reviewing today the 8700 K though with that aside let's take a look at the gaming benchmarks productivity and also throw in some streaming and temperature results for you guys too welcome back to tech yes City this is brian coming to you guys today with the 8700 k review now you guys have been hitting me up on twitter and comment sections and all the threads requesting i get this review out and i would have got it out sooner but there was a big mix-up in my supply however as Rach did come through with a motherboard and also an 8700 k both of which i'm using in today's review so big thank you to as rocker we've got the gaming i7 fatality motherboard on display rock-solid board really good for overclocking the vrm temperatures are good as well which I'll show in an upcoming video but with that aside you guys probably want to know how this thing performs all bs aside so let's take a look at those numbers it so as you guys just saw in those benchmarks ti7 8700 k is legit this thing is really kicking it to the competition and it's even cannibalizing Intel's own CPU lineup I honestly don't see the purpose of the 7800 X or a 7820 X anymore even a 7900 X is going to be a really tough sell for Intel now because the Z 370 chips and of course the 8700 K is going to be a lot cheaper than the next $2.99 motherboard and a 7900 X the only reason I could really see someone going for that of course is that quad channel memory the extra PCIe lanes and if they could utilize those extra cores and threads and if they did then they might want to consider the 1950 X as well which has 16 cores and 32 threads but what we've got here on display is a 6 core 12 threaded Beast now people will say it's only 2 more cause for more threads over the 7700 K and that's exactly what it is the thing is however it's 2 more cause for more threads on the ring bus architecture which is an extremely low latency architecture which is great for gaming and not only that it does productivity extremely well now practically with the 50% boost for 30 more dollars so it's really easy to see how the 8700 K is extremely relevant in 2017 I like to think of it as the new 5820k when that was first released that was extremely good value for money the only problem back in 2014 was that games didn't need 6 cores 12 threads fast forward that to 2017 games can now utilize those extra cores and threads and of course that balance with productivity makes us a serious contender not just for gamers but also for people who are doing productivity as a best in slot CPU as we could see with that Adobe Audition benchmark which is still a single-threaded test the 8700 K was winning those benchmarks now there's other things that I do on my computer like Photoshop what about boot times everything's going to be faster when it comes to single threaded performance with the 8700 ok that's something that the competition and even intel's higher-end lineup of cpus can't currently match which is why the 8700 K really is a shining star despite all the negative attention it's getting and of course the dodgy things that Intel do as a company but on that note of Dodge Intel I don't know how many times have to say please stop using thermal paste to connect the guide of the IHS people in my comments section refused to buy your product just because you're simply doing this and I'm sure would only cost you a little bit extra to implement this on your cpu you could even charge this on to the customer for three hundred and sixty four dollars instead of three hundred sixty dollars and I'm sure people would be glad to pay the difference I know I definitely would instead of having to run down daily the thing buy some liquid thermal paste and then drop it on there and hope and pray that it runs better and also on that note I've just voided my warranty but with all that aside we could see in the temperature test that the 8700 k benefits a lot from a daily I couldn't even get this thing stable at five gigahertz without deleting it emitted into the bench market would crash and fail and then after I deleted it it was perfectly stable however on that note there is a setting in the BIOS that you will want to enable I found this helped a lot with stability it was the offset with the ring to the core ratio I had to set this to enabled and then I found stability at 1.33 volt on LLC level of one but also on that note the software is miss reading the voltages especially cpuid in height of 64 other programs like hardware monitor are kind of getting it right but even with that they're showing weird numbers especially when it came to the LLC scaling that's the load line calibration so hopefully some BIOS updates and some new software updates can fix this is even though it's the 1151 socket until have changed it around to allow more power delivery to these six core 12 threaded CPUs and also the six core six threaded CPUs like the 80 600 K they're looking further into the gaming benchmarks we could just see that this CPU was an absolute beast for gaming if you're into competitive gaming this thing is quite simply the best couple that was streaming it's still the best it's beating the 7900 x2 as a streaming CPU now whether that changes into 2018-2019 is still up for debate however on that note for now it's a really snappy architecture the ring boss is extremely good for competitive gaming but on that note GTA 5 we look at a game like that it did have some stuttering and this caused some weird numbers and when I researched around apparently this game is just getting that many frames on the 8700 K that is breaking the end so I did witness this when I was testing it in 4k where it was no longer stuttering because the frame rates were now lower due to the 4k demand on the graphics card so that is a weird anomaly however GTA 5 it's not a competitive game so I will exclude that and even if it was a competitive game I'm sure they would patch this problem because competitive gamers would have a field day with it if this was implemented in the game like csgo or dota 2 for example or pub G though moving on into pub G it was actually this CPU that made me realise that this game had a hard lock in the frame rates of course pub G did recently get a patch as well for better utilization of CPU core sauce probably this patch coupled with the 8700 K that made me realise this however the 8700 K is the best for pub G players both streamed and non streamed benchmarks moving on into dota 2 extremely smooth we were getting near 240 FPS a lot of the times throughout playing this game and also even in heavy battles it was really only dipping down to like 170 180 FPS so it was extremely capable especially if you're a competitive dota 2 player looking at csgo again the best frame rates I've seen yet I showed just how powerful this thing was with some plays and csgo in my recent build video so if you want to check that out I've put a link in the description below and also another game that really stood out was Far Cry primal of course this game really is related to a CPUs latency I find the better the CPUs latency is with the latency controller and built into the CPU itself the better frame rates you generally get of course coupled with IPC and other things like clock speeds this can give you a result that can very quiet greatly from CPU to CPU though that last benchmark of course that I'm going to pull up for you guys is f1 2016 4k we see here practically no difference if you're playing in 4k so it doesn't really matter what new aged CPU use 4k gaming any CPU will pretty much be fine as the graphics card is getting really stressed at 4k this is with the GT X 1080 Ti so if you guys are a casual gamers and you just care about getting a really good experience and of course something like a Rison v 1600 b through the motherboard stock cooler it's gonna be great value for money and then you can go spend extra money on a graphics card however you guys want the best frame rates possible and you want to CPU that will last you for a couple of in the 8700 k is a serious contender for your money of course you have to get a Z 370 chipset which is more expensive than it be through the motherboard but on that note you will have to get a better cooler as well because at 150 watts this thing does demand a decent cooler I was using the H 110 i from Corsair does a great job and as I stated before I had to deal with this CPU which you don't have to do on the rise and CPUs so now it's time to conclude the video was saying out of the big three companies Intel Nvidia and AMD it seems like Intel does pull the most shadiest stuff out there though with that aside this poor 8700 K he was brought into this world he didn't have a say and I'm just gonna review this CPU on its merits itself and what you're getting if you can pick it up for 360 US dollars which is a different topic altogether on its retail price 360 USD it is one beast of a CPU for me personally it's the best in slot out there by far it's a really fast CPU it's extremely snappy for doing my Adobe Premiere work suite it's extremely fast and not only that the gaming numbers as well for gaming this thing is just extremely fast too so it's one of those CPUs that's hitting really hard for its price and a couple with the Z 370 motherboards you can pick them up for around about 120 dollars that's the asrock pro 4 and that will do a pretty good job of overclocking too of course I did use the gaming i7 which does have better MOSFETs and a vrm on board as opposed to the Z 370 pro 4 but with that said it won't give you that big of a difference as it's still only using 150 watts it's 50 watts more than the 7700 K and it's got 50% more cores and threads so the power consumption is scaling quite similar to the 7700 K the one that noticed still does use more power than an 1800 X so it is technically less efficient at 5 gigahertz versus 4 gigahertz on an 1800 X guys hope you enjoyed today's review if you did that be sure to give it a big thumbs up and let me know in the comments section below what you think about the i7 8700 k if it was in stock today I mean it seems to be sold out everywhere would you buy one if not why if so why love reading your comments and thoughts as always and I'll catch you another tech video very soon peace out for now bye