Very fast, great for video editing and gaming

This processor is really all you need in terms of speed and multi-tasking. Save your money and buy this instead of the i7-9700k as the performance difference is very minor. I video edit and heavy game and this processor never fails. Really big upgrade if you're coming from a 4th-5th gen i7 or i5.

Good quality product, this processor is the right choose for high end PC if you don't want to spend a fortune.

Intel Core i7-8700K Review

For years, Intel has been the establishment of PC enthusiasts. To stretch the current British political metaphor, it was ‘many cores for the few' people who had enough cash to buy a high-end processor and ultra-expensive motherboard.

Huge six-core power; Highly overclockable; Stable and easy-to-use platform; Mighty single-core speeds and gaming performance; Cheaper than Ryzen 7 1800X

Doesn't compete with Ryzen 1700 or 1700X on price; Cheaper 8-core Ryzens offer similar multi-core performance; Not compatible with older motherboards

Intel Core i7 8700K processor review

Intel's new Core i7 8700K manages to impress. Strictly speaking though as you have seen, if you look at IPC at 3500 MHz then Coffee Lake certainly isn't faster compared to the previous gen product. However, Intel benefits greatly from the fact that they can reach high clock frequencies.

Intel Core i7-8700K Review

To say 2017 has been a busy year for desktop-PC processors would be an understatement the size of Texas—or at least, Oregon. The best way to sum it all up might be to say, simply: In 2017, you'll get more cores (and more threads) for your CPU dollar than ever. That keeps getting reaffirmed as the year goes on—and it's not over yet. We still have the Intel Core i7-8700K ($379) to discuss. But first, AMD kicked off the trend with its eight-core Ryzen 7 chips in March, topping out on that platform with the Ryzen 7 1800X ($375.00 at Amazon)(Opens in a new window) . And the new-CPU conveyor belt really hasn't stopped running since then, with AMD following on with six-core Ryzen 5 chips like the Ryzen 5 1600X, and quad-core, four-thread Ryzen 3 options like the AMD Ryzen 3 1300X. Intel countered with impressive, expensive enthusiast-class offerings in a new family called the Core X-Series, topped by the 18-core Core i9-7980XE Extreme Edtion. That mega-chip made AMD's competing counterp...

With high clocks and hexa-core design, Intel's top eighth-generation/"Coffee Lake" desktop CPU impresses as a mainstream "do-it-all" processor. It's an excellent gamer, too, when paired with a high-end video card.

50 percent more cores and threads (and higher boost clocks) than previous-gen mainstream chips; Best gaming performance we've seen at 1080p, when paired with a GTX 1080; Consistently tops AMD's similarly priced Ryzen 7 1700X

Higher MSRP than Core i7-7700K; Requires a new motherboard, despite Z370 chipset offering no substantive new features