Reviewers Liked
- Great for high-end gaming and competent at productivity
- Intel's six cores beat AMD's eight cores in many production tasks
- Lower price-per-thread than competition
- Unlocked multiplier
- Strong multi-thread performance
- 4.7GHz single core
Reviewers Didn't Like
- Relatively expensive compared to Ryzen
- The 8700K runs hot and pulls a lot of watts
- Z-series motherboard requirement
- Requires new motherboards, despite using LGA1151 socket