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Review: Intel Core i7-8700K and Core i5-8400 (14nm Coffee Lake)

by Tarinder Sandhu on 5 October 2017, 14:00

Tags: Intel (NASDAQ:INTC)

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Deus Ex is more of a GPU-bound game. Our results also show that only the weakest processors have difficulty in generating the setup and geometry required when gaming at sensible resolutions and image-quality settings.

The Core i5-8400 can be thought of as a Core i7-6700K- or Core i7-7700K-class of chip most of the time, thanks to its 6C/6T topology. A good steal at $182.

Core i7-8700K continues its good work and is easily portrayed as a last-gen chip augmented with more cores and threads whilst not giving much up in terms of quoted power consumption.

Which leads us nicely on to...