Intel Coffee Lake Core i7-8700K review
The title&#x27;s enthusiasm is completely out of whack from the actual review.<p>From the cons section (and this is in line with other reviews of the chip)<p>&quot;Coffee Lake is the third &quot;optimisation&quot; of an existing architecture with no IPC improvement&quot;<p>The performance gains exclusively come from the small bump in clock frequency which you could trivially get with a minor OC on the previous gen(s), and from 2 extra cores in multithreading tests (no real impact to games currently).<p>If you&#x27;re already in the market for a new CPU and motherboard it should be on the short list. If you&#x27;re not already in the market this won&#x27;t make you want to upgrade.<p>It also means the 2- &amp; 4- core Coffee Lake chips have no redeeming qualities over what came before, hardly a smashing success.<p>Side note it seems the author isn&#x27;t even able to read their own charts? The author lists as a con &quot;The 8700K runs very hot and pulls a lot of watts&quot; but the 8700k was the lowest power consuming chip in the entire lineup that they compared it against. It has a similar power consumption to the 7700k and comes in at ~90w under load. That&#x27;s peanuts for this category of CPUs.