Intel Core i7-8700K review | TechRadar

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Intel upped the core count on its mainstream processors with Coffee Lake. This had to happen, and frankly, would have been unthinkable if Team Blue introduced yet another generation of quad-core chips in light of how AMD has redrawn the battle lines with Ryzen and Threadripper.

And, so, here we are.

The Intel Core i7-8700K sits comfortably at the top of the Coffee Lake pile, with six…

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It’s been almost eleven years since Intel released its first quad-core desktop CPU, the glued-together Core 2 Quad Q6600, and what a glorious processor it was. The 65nm quad-core chip operated at 2.4 GHz, but back then boost clocks weren’t a thing and CPUs operated on a front side bus.

Since then we’ve seen eight major architectural updates and four die shrinks spanning a decade. Yet after all…