Intel finally broke the mould | i7 8700k
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- Опубликовано: 3 июл 2024
- Testing the Intel i7-8700K 6 core CPU in 10 popular and demanding games in 2023, using an RX 6900 XT discrete GPU.
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Now that the quad core CPU has been relegated to i3 status, six cores are largely accepted as the optimal choice for gaming without spending a fortune. This wasn’t the case when the i7-8700K hit the market in 2017 - having had their hand forced by AMD’s new Ryzen series, Intel were forced to take the consumer Core series CPUs out of their bubble. The 8700K was the no-compromise CPU of choice for gamers, at a time where high core counts were less important than they are today. Does that mean the Coffee Lake CPU still has a place in modern gaming?
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00:00 i7-8700K vs. 2023
00:46 Background: History of the i7-8700K
03:43 Test System: i7-8700K @ 5.0GHz, 32GB DDR4-3200, RX 6900 XT
04:18 Gaming Benchmarks
04:20 Contextual Benchmark: Assassin’s Creed Origins (2017)
05:15 Benchmarks: Valorant
06:06 Benchmarks: Warzone
06:37 Benchmarks: Fortnite
07:22 Benchmarks: Starfield
08:07 Benchmarks: Cyberpunk v2.0
09:04 Benchmarks: The Last of Us Part One
09:37 Benchmarks: Jedi Survivor
10:09 Benchmarks: Microsoft Flight Simulator
10:47 Benchmarks: Civilization VI
11:12 Productivity Benchmarks: Davinci Resolve
11:55 Productivity Benchmarks: Blender Classroom
12:10 Synthetic Benchmarks: CPU-Z, Cinebench R23, Time Spy & Firestrike
12:22 Is the i7-8700K still worth it?
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I'm surprised the i7 8700k came out so long ago. I remember when ltt had just reviewed it and how awesome of a chip it was. What a beast.
I only remember watching streamers use it when it came out and seeing their dropped frames because it somehow still wasn't enough.
hmmm i don't know... 2016 to 2017 still sometimes feels for me it was like yesterday.
@@fpshooterful I feel the same sometimes, 2015 was a golden year for me and it's still weird to think it was already 8 years ago.
@@skorpers streaming is quite intensive on a cpu so that doesn't surprise me tbh.
I was just thinking about this CPU i would like to see and 8700k vs 9700k video I would think the 8700k aged better
I retired my 8700k recently for a 7800x3d. Had a good 6 year run but this year cpu demands got alot rougher. the 1% lows improved immensely.
Even then, it is still good for a home mini server.
Same! Had it running at 5ghz, but swapped to 7900x in April. Performance jumped around 0-30% w/ my 3080 at 1440p depending on the game, so it still held up pretty well!
Did exactly the same this spring.
@@Demopans5990 no its not, the i7 8700k is so power hungry that is it is kinda useless and better to go with a old ryzen 3600 way less watt usage and same performance when not even better
@@allxtend4005 In gaming my 8700k wasnt that powerhungry, probably uses a little bit more than my current 7800x3d but that's kind of expected seeing as my 8700k was overclocked and my 7800x3d isnt. It was only powerhungry once you start overclocking it. At stock it would probably use a little bit more than a 3600 while also performing a little bit better. I rarely saw it go over 100 watts even with a OC, Mostly around 60-80 unless you put it under a full stress load.
8700K and 1080Ti were way ahead of their time.
and I am still on a AMD FX-8370 with GTX 960
Basically the meta combo?
I'm still rocking my combo!
I love your editing. Obviously, the content is great as well, but your channel just has so much personality that nobody else can match. Love your work.
Upgraded from an i7-8700K to an i7-12700K and was expecting more improvement in games than I got. The old coffee lake was just that good.
should have gotten a X3D ryzen chip
@@manueldelbusto725Yeah. Modern games really seem to prioritize cache over clock and core counts. Though, the i7 is probably better for non game multitasking than the 7800x3d.
Thanks to AMD for getting us past 4 cores. I have an old 8700K and 9900K but am firmly on AMD's platforms now and for the foreseeable future. The 8700K was a great CPU though.
And AMD pulled an Intel with Ryzen.
You are paying US$300-350 for a glorified low-end 6c R5 x600X.
Consider this, AMD release new architecture or new branding with an increased in core count, but keeping the same price.
PX4 9600 > P2X6 1090T > FX-8150 were all the same price and had an increased in core count. So what do you expect for Ryzen for US$300? A low-end 6c or a 10c or 12c high-end?
Yeah, AMD or rather Evil Su, pulled many Intel stunts.
@@AlfaPro1337 Yeah not even close buddy. AMD didn't make secret back door deals with OEM's to stop Intel from having their chips in the OEM machines.
And what Intel stunt are they pulling? Are AMD rehashing the same old architecture over and over again and using marginal gains from node changes in order to justify it? Or do you think that just because core counts are the same between Zen 1, 2, 3, and 4, they're the same thing despite the fact that Zen 2 was a true chiplet design, Zen 3 unified the cache between the core complexes.
@@AlfaPro1337Where are you getting those ryzen 5s for 300 USD?
This kind of comment is just done in bad faith, we haven't seen those prices in literally more than a year since they released, they are on Amazon right now for less than half of the price, come on.
@@andersonfrancotabares3614 Did you see the original launch price, plus, you haven't even accounted for e/retail mark-up?
It's literally US$300-350 for a glorified low-end 6c.
Well intel that time alway make mass production even xeon with 4c so always rare case near 7th gen xeon 6-12c but not for consumers, today the only one who make entry level 4c is intel with i3 a serious issues market.
As much as we like to meme on 14+++++++++++++++++++, props to Intel for being able to stay relatively competitive with it for so long.
Fr they milked that 14nm for all it's worth. It's honestly quite amazing they managed to stay pretty competitive for so long on 14nm.
@@ChroniclyBentPipe Intel utilized the 14nm for so many years because of AMD not because of Intel.
AMD was producing trash CPU's and nearly went out of business until Ryzen saved them with a hail mary.
Intel had no reason to change from the 14nm until Ryzen, the 4 core 8 thread Intel 14nm was King.
@auntiepha8343 14nm continued long after ryzen was introduced.
@@TKIvanovNearly 4 years after, in fact. The only reason they did not make the node smaller, was because they couldn't, the process of development just kept having issues all the time.
Edit: Actually 4 and a half years after the 1st Ryzen launched.
And AMD or rather Evil Su, pulled many Intel stunts.
Now, it's just Zen+++++++++++++++++. They have no good engineers.
This channel deserves so many more subscribers. Good job mate, keep it coming.
Still rocking my old 8700k. I want to upgrade but at this point it makes sense to wait for the next release cycle.
What and when will be released? Im on your same boat mate!
no need to upgrade for a few good years, this CPU even supports Windows 11
Same
👍Great video and content Iceberg Tech!! 🏆In 2017... I went from i3 4160 and GTX 760 to i5 8400 and GTX 1070.
That platform upgrade was the biggest leap of performance in my modern computer experience by far.
With a build like that you can still play many modern games today!
I went from i5-3570k to i7-7700k and it was a decent leap but nothing groundbreaking, really. Should've waited for 8th gen I guess.
Well, it felt good going to i5-13600k after the 7700k.
Im still running an i5 8400
Got myself a 12600k after using a 4690 non-k. The performance difference felt amazing! I'm a hardware enthusiast so I'm eager to try out newer CPUs, but otherwise 12600k would last me for a long while
@@vinylSummer 👍 You picked a good CPU with the 12600k, it is a beast. I went from the i5 8400 to a 9700k and now on a 13700k. I probably would still have a 9900k if I had gotten one at the time. Instead I got the 9700k that I thought "saved" money buying but the 9700k no hyperthreading became an issue. 😀Morale of the story is... only upgrade a CPU when you need it and don't skimp out when you do upgrade your CPU platform.
I have an 8700k that runs full time at 4.8ghz. Paired with a 3070ti @1440p, I'm still quite happy with its performance. Its definitely showing its age, especially with the 1% lows in newer titles but Intel really had a winner with this generation.
I ran my 8700K until late last year. I tried to replace it with a 9900K but it was barely an upgrade and didn't fix the performance problems I was having. Ended up replacing Coffeelake entirely with a 7900X3D. It's over twice as fast as the 8700K and 9900K were. Still, if it weren't for emulators the 8700K would have stayed a few more years. I had no problems in actual PC games.
have a 8600k 4.7Ghz,1440p wide +3070, still doing well.....but if i upgrade to recent CPU, i fear the cost of upgrade wont reflect on the fps that much.....
recently upgraded to 13600k and I have kept my 64GB DDR4 3600 set. ~$200 upgrade (bought used mobo+cpu)
@@po-pi-po You got the deal of a lifetime! That's Insane! I upgraded due to the amazing black Friday deals on the Newegg tiktok shop. Then I sold my 8700k on eBay for $125 lol. So I basically upgraded to a 12700k/z690 ddr4 mobo for $100! Can't beat that
I loved my 8700k, it was a golden sample,delided and copper topped. It ran OC'd at 5.4ghz rock steady. Such a great chip.
What volt did you run ?😁
Truly a golden sample
I can't even run 5,2 GHz all-core with the 9600K
@@tomppeli.i have an 8086k that can’t even run at 5 ghz safely
Edit: damn shame really cuz I’m too poor to upgrade and I lost the lottery
@@ericmullen7582 I do think running at 5 GHz has its merits, but it probably isn't the most efficient thing in the world. I'd say that currently the greatest limit right now is the lack of hyperthreading, at least for me.
bullshit. maybe in games only. mine crashes at 4,8ghz at 1.28v sometimes.
I bought a 8700k at release and continued to use it until 12th gen released. Was a beast of a CPU for many generations and when delidded ran very cool.
i wish i got parts from this era when i first got a computer, i was using an i3-2100T from 2020-2021. going from that to a ryzen 5 3600 was insane. but i also went from some 2011 amd graphics card to a rx 570.
Perfect timing. This video makes me miss those old days. Great times.
Awesome as always. Keep up the great work. Take care
I have an Intel i5 9600k overclocked at 5.0Ghz and it is still running so great. It actually performs better in games because it can sustain a higher clock speed.
I eagerly wait, daily, for the 6900XT performance with a legacy cpu.
Unless things change, October may be your month 😉
I have a 6900xt and 9900k. Kinda a weird experience
@@tannermartin60949900K is not that legacy. I was thinking of those old I3 or celerons.
Recently delidded and overclocked mine to 4.8 Ghz all-core while keeping temps below 60 degrees. It will serve me a good few more years I think. My system is very close to your test system.
Love the series, keep up the good work!! Perfect for those who's thinking of buying second hand CPU's that are actually still relevant
love your videos, nice personality, seems competint, great video work, I hope you do well on RUclips
Man your vids are kino
I recently got this CPU (non K) in a couple of ex-office PC's I bought reduced price on Ebay. I just wanted something 6 core for cheap, in the hope it would keep up a bit better these days. This was very encouraging to see, and also very interesting in the history and background segment too, as I didn't know about it being the first main stream Intel 6 core CPU. Thankyou 👍
They're really great, just picked up yet another for only 120 on cex. Using them as servers on the cheap.
I still use an i7-8700 in my PC. Does gaming just fine & I don't do any heavy duty CPU tasks either.
@@MLWJ1993 It really seems like its still a decent CPU for modern stuff in general. I was using i5 2500 before hand and the responsiveness in Windows 10 is noticibly better, especially with winzip and basic encoding.
Seems like the average person could get great from this CPU for years ahead.
What GPU are you using with it?
@@konzo5942 I think around a hundred dollars is a good deal for a quite powerful 6 core like these! Only maybe 2-3 years ago, I saw i7 2600 CPUs for that price (second hand), so definitely in the sweet spot now I think 👍
@@mechanicalpants I run it paired with a RTX 2070 & a 1440P display. I definitely notice being GPU limited though with the CPU doing just fine 😆
The i7 8700k is still a fast cpu and has no reason to be replaced yet it's got a few more years to go at minimum
The 8700K and 8086K were some of the best hexa-cores Intel ever made, multi core performance is a bit lacking but single core was still substantially faster than Ryzen at the time. AMD didn’t quite close the gap until the release of the 3600X, and even then it’s a close call. I remember really wanting to get an 8700K around the time I got a R5 2600, but it wouldn’t have made much of a difference since I was using an RX 580 at that time anyway. I feel like most people still using Coffee Lake i5s or better definitely got their money’s worth, though now with 14th gen SKUs on the horizon, the decision to upgrade will yield a much higher improvement in single & multi core performance
Yeah but 14th gen just a refresh 13th gen which is a refresh of 12th gen a lot of 8th gen users could probably get a 9900k just for an extra 2 cores and hold off till 15th 16th gen
@@josephdias3968 true, but even if single core is only like 10-15% better at best from 12th to 14th gen, the multicore performance has improved considerably. A 12700K was 8P + 4E (12c/20t), whereas the 14700K will be 8P + 12E (20c/28t) with better stock speeds & OC potential. Back in 8th gen, getting just 2 extra cores WAS the upgrade since i7s were 4c/8t the entire time beforehand. I’m not saying that extra cores should be the only reason someone should upgrade, just that as of now the jump from an 8700K to 14700K would add 14 total cores (or 16 threads) which is kinda insane tbh
Intel is still crushing in single threaded, but at a cost
You're right about this platform costing more than it should. I came up on an i7-8700(non-k) and was thinking about doing something with it but the motherboards are too expensive from what I can find.
The cheapest I have seen compatible motherboards is 50 us bucks for I think a H310. Unless you're willing to go with a Q370 dell board for 45ish.
Always wanted to get one of those! Interesting to see how it still fairs in today’s games!
I'm still daily driving this thing! You calling me old?
What a great great Video!!! Love it as an PC Nerd since 1993. My whole Confirmation Money was spend for the First PC, a Pentium 90 which was the best CPU Intel had to offer. Had the Time of my Live with Games like Doom, Dark Forces and Wing Commander 3.
I got that at release and paired it with a 2080ti and it's still doing me well even now. Spend more at the time for a proper system and it will last, when I rebuild I again will go in for the top tier and so the cycle repeats.
My 8700k has done really well for me in the five years and a bit I've had it - only now is it beginning to show its age a bit in some games like Cyberpunk 2077 v 2.0 and Spiderman especially. Hoping to retire it next year and get at least a 7900X3D (possibly 7950X3D).
Still running my i7-8086k. 40th anniversary binned 8700k, still cranks everything I need it to but I’m considering delidding for direct die cooling to see how much performance I’ve been leaving on the table.
My first processor review published was the 8700k. It's still linked on intels product page for the 8700k
Remembering this, you should make a video about CoffeeTime
I considered using it for this, but I decided to get the Z370 as it was a pretty reasonable deal at under £90. I’m not sure how well my Asrock Z270M would handle higher core count CPUs, either.
@@IcebergTech you could either way make a video about it for those that still don't want to spend money on some old chipset motherboard because Intel says "yOU mUSt bUy A zEE390 FoR 8tH aND nInEtH gEn"
Awesome video as always! A pleasant surprise to see old hardware doing so well. What would you consider the best server cpu/motherboard combo available for less than 100 pounds at the moment?
Back in 2018, the i7-8700K and GTX 1080 Ti was such a beast of a combo
I still got that combo lol im gonna upgrade soon 😂 time to retire it
Thats right, we got one!
Still running 8700K OC to 4.8 @1.285v, playing at 4K with RTX 3090, still running great.
I like these videos. Validation that my two 9th gen machines will be more than enough for the games I want to play for the foreseeable future.
Mine has been fantastic at 4.8ghz and I'm only now upgrading to 7800x3d. Having said that the i7800k still runs a lot of games very well at 4k with a rtx7900xtx
I7800k wtf!?!? Lol
it's good to know that I can keep using my 8700k and miss out on no modern game, if they ever make a good modern game again that is.
Im still running one of the oldest 6 core i7s... The 6850k, I use it for editing and it is starting to show its age. I am waiting for intels raptor lake refresh launch to make a final decision on what cpu I am getting.
Great video! loving your channel more and more!
I bought the i7-8700 non-K almost a year ago and i have a 60hz monitor with plans to upgrade to anything higher than 60hz and I'm glad to know that it will last me a couple more years ... thanks for a great video ❤
Hey, it's my CPU! Great work as always, Iceberg!
Still running the 8700K in my main system. Does well in 1080p ultrawide with a Titan Xp.
8700K was a kickass chip. I replaced mine with a 9900K which was also a good chip, but the 8700K could match it with an overclock. This meant 9900K was barely an upgrade and didn't give me the boost I was looking for. I should have held onto 8700K longer and not wasted my money on sidegrades. Not that 9900K was slow by any stretch. It's just that 8700K was already so good!
i kept my 8700k and 1080ti FTW3 in my hardware collection to this day
Im still rocking my i7 8700k from 2017 and still do a great job i delided mine 2 years ago and oc it to 5ghz 1.37v and run a 60c paired with a rtx 3080 at 1440p and it dise the job
Still running one in my 2nd pc which was my 2018 build. Pretty competent cpu still tbh.
God, I sure do love competition.
i still have my 8086k (which is just a high binned 8700 iirc). its running a debian install and has the glorious task of babysitting a 3d printer and running some electronics test gear.
I used Intel HEDT with the 920, 3930k, and 5820k, all the way until the 8700k. Was a good cpu, unfortunately it ran hot AF. I tried delidding it but the tool I used was slightly off on tolerances and ruined it. After that I switched the AMD and have been using them ever since.
My roommate got his hands on an AMD Ryzen 5 1600X brand new in 2017 in a giveaway. He bought a motherboard and 16GB of G.Skill 3600MHz DDR4 RAM, a Zotac GTX 1070 and a few other bits, I bought his Intel Core i5 3570K and Radeon R9 290 machine from him. At one point he was updating BIOS every few days. By the time I got my hands on the that machine, he upgraded to a Ryzen 9 3950X and RTX 2080 Super. TL;DR: When the BIOS was good and figured out on the early Ryzen processors, they were great bang for the buck. I now have a Ryzen 5 5600X feeding my roommate's old RTX 2080 Super, and I am EXTREMELY happy with the performance of my machine, all on one socket.... Yes, I am currently still locked in at PCI-E Gen. 3, but that is fine, I am happy with the performance of my machine in my most demanding of games and the visuals, without cheating by using gimmicks like FSR or DLSS, and RT really doesn't mean much to me still. I am blown away what AMD has done with a single socket and how much they lit a fire under Intel again after so long.
6:54 That problem is as old as the game itself. Almost all replays become corrupt after a game update. You can however, start a new match and replace the replay file of that match with the one you want to benchmark. This will work for only one replay and the game must be running while you do this or it won't load the replay.
For example, if the corrupt replay file is called "Replay1234" and the newly created file is called "Replay5". What you'll do is
open the replay folder
make a copy of "Replay5"
Rename "Replay1234" to "Replay5"
Load "Replay5" from the list.
I’m going to upgrade mine when the 15th gen comes out the performance from 14th gen and 15th gen is suppose to be big since 14th gen was the refresh of 13th gen. I can only imagine the improvement from i7 8700k to a 15700k
I feel like I did really well buying AM4, I put a 5800x3D in the board recently and it’s phenomenal! AM5 buyers are going to do REALLY well IMO.
when I will finally upgrade my AMD FX-8370 system, I will go for AM5
As a person who daily drives an 8700(not k) for gaming and general stuff I feel like the k edition with overclock would make a good budget to performance cpu for new people as well as people into gaming because the 4.6 max freq really helps over the previous fixed 3.6 i had on my old laptop
I finally delidded mine a few days ago. I got a 0.5GHz OC and still down 15 degrees air cooled. Absolute beast
I am still using it, don't see any need to upgrade yet.
Star5H1T is the worst game of all time, 1080p Low running at same level of 1440p High putting the same load in the GPU...
Intel got their processor stuck with 4 cores even for i7 up until 7th gen. The difference between 7700 and 8700 in multicore performance is huge compared to other generation. Thanks to AMD for their Ryzen lineup, threatening Intel out of their comfort zone.
still a great chip. i have a system with an 8700k and a gtx 1080 i run to the max every day, been running 5.2ghz stable for years now and smashes everything i throw at it. really need a new gpu though; pc ports have just been so bad since i got this rig and when SLI was officially killed a few years back i sold my second card and downgraded to a 1080p display so i'm definitely lacking in the gpu department but i really just don't have a reason to upgrade my cpu right now. neat video
Yeah, prices on ebay for i7's are crazy with the i7-8700k being more than a ryzen 5600x brand new. Might be worth piking up as a combo with a motherboard and ram if it can be found for a reasonable proce.
Just a quick note. X79 supports up to 12c/24t with the Xeon E5 2697 v2
I'm still running my 8700k with an 1080ti, 5 years ago it was a monster of a pc, now still keeps up but it's starting o struggle.
I have this chip, but havent overclocked it since my cooling isnt good enough. Upgrading very soon, but its been great up until recently at stock speeds
Great to see AC Origins on the test suite, it's like a synthetic to me :) Does it have denuvo on or off ?
I have a 10 core i9 - 7900x from that age as my main rig and a 8 core i7 - 5960x with x99 mobo chilling on the shelf.
I still have an 15-8600k OC'ed to 5ghz. I went for the i5 because at the time some of the games I was playing (mainly Bethesda games) had issues with hyper threading and it was recommended to disable that at the BIOS if your CPU had it, so it made more sense to me to get the cheaper i5 CPU that doesn't have hyper threading out of the box.
I still have my 8700K and 1080ti gaming rig from 2017.
I'm still running the i7 8700k kept up and only now is it starting to show it's age.
"This is the way" - "I have spoken" NOICE!!!! :👌👌😂😂
I have the binned version of this the 8086k and I custom looped water cool it and churned it to 5ghz (240 + 480mm rad was the way to go during that time) and paired with 1080ti was the best gaming pc during that time, mainly witcher 3 and overwatch competitive could always hit way above monitor limit, however with newer game releases like cyberpunk i wasn't hitting the fps I was hoping for so I decided to dropped a custom water blocked 3090 and turned up the clock speed but then I realize it is not hitting the full potential of the 3090 from the severely bottlenecked cpu, upgraded to a B-Die 4000mhz 14cl (down clocked to 3700mhz again due to cpu limit) ram only yielded 10 fps in The Finals, I am now stuck in a situation where the I'd have to go through all this custom loop modifications to get to upgrading the cpu and motherboard.
i just left the 8600k for the 9900kf but the 8600k today while overclocked is still a beast of a cpu
still rocking mine. delidded :) btw ram at 3700 mhz cl 15 would raise your frames a ton
I had upgraded from the non-K 8700 back in Feb to a 5700X. I have that chip in a secondary PC now with a RX 6700(non xt). Still handles things pretty well. Good backup gaming PC.
Still using one with MCE enabled and a 3080 slotted beneath it.
Works like a charm for 1440p gaming even in 2023.
Be it high refresrate sim racing or playable ray tracing in cyberpunk, the 8700k does it all
please consider reviewing i5 8400 and 9400f as well with newer games
Still running my 8700k in my gaming rig and i don’t really feel pressed to upgrade just yet. Definately saving and thinking about it, but slowly. With frame generation these days you can sqeeze a ton more frames out of older or lower tier tech. Lossless scaling on steam, it’s 6 bucks, works on anything, and you can double your frames in most cases. It’s not a silver bullet but I’m playing Helldivers 2 at 1440p, high settings, at ~90-130 fps (depending on the chaos). 2080 super, 32gigs ram (can’t remember speed). If you get it make sure you look up setup guides. You can’t just turn it on unless some minor settings are changed.
Edit: Was getting 60-70fps prior.
Would you say it's worth upgrading from i3 8100 to i7 8700 in the meantime instead of getting new mb ram and stuff also have a rx 6600
watching using my pc i7 8700
still awesome
I bought the 8700k in march 2018, it was my first Intel : )
I upgraded to a 13700KF in February of this year but my 8700K is in a different case now for my nephew to use when I babysit him and he wants to play Minecraft together : )
In my living room, I put my desktop there that still rocks connected to my 70 inch Samsung TV. MY desktop hosts my i7 8700k with my Nvidia 1080 Ti, 2 TB SSD, and 64 Gigs of ram. And with Nvidia's upscale update on their older GPUs I can still run every game old and new at min 60 fps and up to 100 plus fps at 1440p. I love this desktop and will never get rid of it. In my work room, I have the i7 13th series and an Nvidia 3080, 2 TB SSD, and 32 gigs of rams. AND, I'm pretty satisfied with it although I wanted the 3080 Ti but at the time I couldn't find any. Now this desktop runs everything extremely well.
Awesome video. Absolutely loved my 8086K (binned 8700K), OC'd to 5.2ghz @1.365V. Another way to drastically reduce temps on coffee lake was delidding, and using liquid metal to replace the junk TIM Intel used.
8700k was one of my most prized possessions, this still somewhat modern beast packs quite the punch that I see people using the cpu with 4090
🙂 theres a star citizen channel on utube and he likes to state that the minimum cpu specs for star citizen is either an Intel 8700 or Ryzen 3600
If found for cheap might be good for basis of a budget friendly build but the pain would be in upgrading later on since you would need a new motherboard for any other chip.
Probably why AM4 rules the budget systems since they are so easy to upgrade later on.
Still my back-up rig CPU....absolute LEGEND of a chip.
Still rocking the 8700k at 5Ghz on 1.23V. Recently upgraded GPU's from 1080TI in SLI to a single 3080Ti. Quite curious what the performance difference would be by going to a 14700k vs 8700k.
No way you doing 5ghz on 1.23v stop lying. Maybe with avx -4 haha
I loved my 8700k/1070ti build, it served me well
Intrseting to see it in 2023.
Btw i use a 10600kf, same chip.
Sooo the X platform graph at 2:13 is a bit misleading. Because if we looked at Core processors available to them the X58 capped out at 6 cores and so did the X79 platform with the 4960X which was also 6 cores. When it comes to X99 the highest end CPU that was available was the 5960X with 8 cores that was later replaced with a 10 core 6950X. The X299 is again correct when looking at available Core Processors (btw imo this platform was horrendous and i regret every waking moment i chose it over the 8700K)
I had the i7 8700k since 2019. Just upgraded to a 5800X3D this week
meanwhile Mac fanboys upgrading every frickin year
People who bought the 8700K brand new when it came out pretty much won the CPU lottery. Just like 2500K/2600K users back in 2012
I'm still running an 8700k at 5ghz on an AIO.
Great for gaming at 4k.
Doesn't miss a beat
Still rocking my 8700k. Definately notice some bottlenecking but I am going to wait until Q! to upgrade. Have a 3080ti to go with a new build.
6 cores, I remember Coffee Lake was a good lake. We were stuck on 4 cores for so long.
1st gen did actually have 6c/12t i7s, they were just only on the workstation motherboards with a different socket
That was mentioned in the video 2:05
I'm surprised my man talked about I7 8700k in 2023 (actually my main processor rn), and it's actually still a beast from 2017 and glad I still have the processor paired with Gtx 1660 super, and it's great for 1080p and 1440p gaming.
it's a beast cos it is running a gpu that doesnt require nvidia software scheduling.
Put a 4090 on this cpu and watch it die.
@@Hjominbonrun yep that's just violation but damn ye
@@DroppyMission No fault of the CPU, Nvidia GPU's nowadays are leaning very heavily on the cpu.
If I want an AMD GPU, I will buy one.
If I want a NVidia GPU, I will first have to buy a CPU, cos it would be sad if I replace my GPU with a 4090 and get worse frames.
@@Hjominbonrun makes sense for new Nvidia GPUs rn
Grab a used rx 5700xt or 6800... 1660 super ..... lol
About your Testing Methods. Why not testing in 720p? In that resolution every hardware journalists test in that way the cpu with the top gpu at the time. With that way you test only the cpu and gpu limit is out of the field. Yeah 1080p and 1440p is closer for the normal user but for real comparison 720p is better. I know all your tests are in the two resolutions. It would be nice to have a extra category in 720p for every cpu and the same gpu in all tests. Keep up the great work! Love your videos! That are only some thoughts from me