Intel's 8th Generation Core Family - Coffee Lake (LGA 1151, 6C/12T)

Where do you expect Core i7-8700K's Turbo to land?

  • 3.8/3.9 GHz

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • 4.0/4.1 GHz

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • 4.2/4.3 GHz

    Votes: 6 46.2%

  • 4.4/4.5 GHz

    Votes: 3 23.1%

  • 4.6/4.7 GHz

    Votes: 1 7.7%
  • Total voters
    13
  • Poll closed .
AbRASiON said:
I'm not a general user, I'm a 'power user, not gamer' - I mean I want windows absoloutely and utterly as responsive as possible.
Since I gave up gaming, I have been able to use weaker level PCs and gotten by fine with that, but slowly it's been grinding me away that my Windows isn't snappy enough, hence wanting the 8700k

I guess we'll know in the next 8 weeks just how good or bad it is.
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Ive felt very responsive systems, and built a few that did not need a super fast cpu. IMO the other components lend more to a "snappy" and "faster" feeling windows install. As well as the software taht is used.
 
jmilcher said:
Ive felt very responsive systems, and built a few that did not need a super fast cpu. IMO the other components lend more to a "snappy" and "faster" feeling windows install. As well as the software taht is used.
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Yeah of course, SSD made the biggest difference in the last 15 years.
What if you want even more than that? You want the machine even snappier? Every click virtually instantaneous?

You need memory bandwidth, cache, threads and IPC up the wazoo.
 
realworld said:
I wouldn't mind if Ice Lake is noticeably faster. Else, 9700k better have 8 cores or just stick with the 8700k.
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I'm more concerned of the temps. With my tiny case assuming Ice lake would have better thermals and I'll take it even with just a slight bump of performance. I just don't have the funds of buying mobo+cpu then another set in less than a year.
 
Z390 in 2H 2018 apparently....

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http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/asrock-shows-coffee-lake-skus-on-1151-socket.html
 
Already on the previous page ;)

And its likely to be the chipset for Icelake K models.
 
Someone I know with Coffee reported that clocks are 1:1 with uncore, i'm not sure if its currently like this. Anyone know?
 
Copying this from Reddit just so we have it on record.

The font is the same for the Intel HD Graphics portion and some people think that to use the Intel HD Graphics/iGPU you will require a 370 mobo. It may be compatible with 170/270 but you would lose support for the iGPU.

This makes sense from reading the stuff ont he box. Next to each other, same font. Again, it may be nothing, but it wouldn't be "out of this world" if it was true.

Remember, the early benchmarks were on Z270 motherboards too.
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I mean I haven't dropped the possibility for backwards compatibility with Z270 but I don't see Intel allowing it to go back till Z170
 
Ughh wish the madness would just end!!

So maybe z270 compatible without IGP. And z370 may have more power to support more cores +IGP. That would be nice.

Still sitting on a new unopened z270 mitx board, fingers still crossed
 
Ughh wish the madness would just end!!
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It will not because there is DDR5 and PCIe 4.0 and PCIe 5.0 coming the next few years. I believe AMDs will be to hold off till Zen3 for new motherboards / support for these new technologies while Intel will give you these (well at least DDR5 and PCIe 4.0) before the end of 2020. Not sure exactly when PCIe 5.0 will be used. It should be finalized next year.
 
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With how well Ryzen is doing is probably the reason why they wont do backwards compatibility (at least z270).
 
Dayman said:
He mentioned he got it up to 4.7 with uncore but 5ghz with 1:1 scaling wasn't stable
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5Ghz uncore sounds very optimistic too ;)

Just of the hip guess I would say the uncore on 8700K is around 4.3 as default. Its 4Ghz on 6700K and 4.2Ghz on 7700K.
 
Dayman said:
I mean I haven't dropped the possibility for backwards compatibility with Z270 but I don't see Intel allowing it to go back till Z170
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Why not? I'm sure the inclusion of Optane memory support in the Z270 isn't holding back the possibility of it working.
 
What are the chances we'll see another gorgeous board like this one in the age of RGB eye cancer?
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