Review: Intel Core i5 8600K CPU

#5482092 Posted on: 10/16/2017 07:35 AM

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noun: vapourware; noun: vaporware

software or hardware that has been advertised but is not yet available to buy*, either because it is only a concept or because it is still being written or designed.


I disagree because you use a term incorrectly. the 8 series is not a concept, and is not still being designed. People have it in their systems right now as I type, which makes your comment effectively dumb as bricks and factually incorrect. The end.

Well since the availability is still close to null, this product is borderline* vaporware.


1 a: being in an intermediate position or state: not fully classifiable as one thing or its opposite

a borderline state between waking and sleeping

b: not quite up to, typical of, or as severe as what is usual, standard, or expected

borderline intelligence


borderline hypertension

c: characterized by psychological instability in several areas (such as interpersonal relations, behavior, and identity) but only with brief or no psychotic episodes

a borderline personality disorder

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You should try out reading properly. I hear it's useful these days.

@Fox2232 there is a difference in cache though as 2600k has more than 2500k plus the 4 more logical threads. 2500k was a great CPU but got left behind. 2600k is still going strong however. I am not sure about BF1 as I don’t own it. All the games I’ve played recently have not really been an issue except the two Forza games but those had issues no matter the number of threads.
Not only the cache, remember that hyperthreading helps in gaming when you're in a core starved scenario. Remember how strong those i3s were going a while back? Not sure of their current state as I've lost touch with the lower-end segment; but I'm assuming they're starting to show their weakness.

#5482154 Posted on: 10/16/2017 11:43 AM

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@xIcarus did you miss the part where I said the 2600k has 4 more logical cores than the 2500k?

#5482277 Posted on: 10/16/2017 06:12 PM

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Great review HH! I must say that was expected due to higher core clock and some marginal IPC gain. Ineed it looks like a really good gaming chip for those who aim exclusively at high count FPS... I might add that indeed in terms of bang for the buck AMD its the way to go not only because when we got a GPU bottleneck things get on pair, but its due the fact that one could upgrade later to refreshed revision of Ryzen probably with higher clocks.

Other thing I like to add in the recent discussion about old gen's and gaming at 1080p (60hz)

I am proud owner (some might laugh) of an i7 875k at 4.0Ghz (1.2750v) paired with a GTX 1060 6GB.

I have found that I dont have any problems running any game at rock solid 60 FPS with my very very very old i7. There are a very few games witch still relys on pure single thread performance where I see my 1st Core (Core0) almost maxed out. But in 90% of the games my GPU is always at 99% and in the other 10% its always above 85% witch confirms the fact that my old i7 still a very competent processor to deliver me 60 rock solid FPS.

I like to share my experience with you guys because having the first unlocked i7 its something rare this days and with some fine tweaking I was able to squezze a very amazing amount of performance of him.

Regards from Will.

#5482314 Posted on: 10/16/2017 08:53 PM

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This looks nice for the dedicated gamer. If I wanted to keep a gaming pc more then ~2 years or so without upgrading the CPU I think I would want more threads, but if you plan to upgrade every 2-3 years and don't play the smallish amount of games that actually use more then 6 cores/threads then this i5 8600K is a superb buy. For almost everyone else out there I'd get a Ryzen 1700.

#5483262 Posted on: 10/19/2017 08:37 AM

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hi, any SLI benchmarks with coffee lake in the future? that will be nice