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Best Bench: 94% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 4.35 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 80% Base clock 3.8 GHz, turbo 2.2 GHz (avg)

Poor: 80% Great: 94%

SPEED RANK: 157^th / 1442

Gaming 87%

Aircraft carrier

Desktop 88%

Aircraft carrier

Workstation 138%

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Best Bench: 100% Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 5.05 GHz (avg)
Worst Bench: 76% Base clock 3.7 GHz, turbo 0.8 GHz (avg)

Poor: 76% Great: 100%

SPEED RANK: 148^th / 1442

Gaming 88%

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Desktop 90%

Nuclear submarine

Workstation 80%

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Effective Speed Effective CPU Speed		87.2 %			88.4 %	+1%


Memory Avg. Memory Latency	71.4 Pts		90.1 Pts	Lower memory latency. +26%
1-Core Avg. Single Core Speed	143 Pts	Faster single-core speed. +12%	128 Pts
2-Core Avg. Dual Core Speed	284 Pts	Faster dual-core speed. +14%	249 Pts
4-Core Avg. Quad Core Speed	551 Pts	Faster quad-core speed. +18%	466 Pts
8-Core Avg. Octa Core Speed	1092 Pts	Much faster octa-core speed. +42%	770 Pts


Memory OC Memory Latency	81.7 Pts		96.5 Pts	Lower OC memory latency. +18%
1-Core OC Single Core Speed	152 Pts	+3%	148 Pts
2-Core OC Dual Core Speed	303 Pts	+4%	292 Pts
4-Core OC Quad Core Speed	590 Pts	Slightly faster OC quad-core speed. +6%	558 Pts
8-Core OC Octa Core Speed	1173 Pts	Much faster OC octa-core speed. +32%	892 Pts

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Market Share Market Share (trailing 30 days)	0.01 %	1.31 %	Insanely higher market share. +13,000%
Value Value For Money	56.5 %	98.7 %	Much better value. +75%
User Rating UBM User Rating	53 %	81 %	Much more popular. +53%
Price Price (score)	$1,350	$186	Hugely cheaper. +86%


Age Newest	52+ Months	Much more recent. +33%	78 Months
64-Core OC Multi Core Speed	4616 Pts	Hugely faster OC 64-core speed. +302%	1147 Pts
64-Core Avg. Multi Core Speed	4251 Pts	Hugely faster 64-core speed. +338%	971 Pts

"Build to perform. Designed to win". Launched 25 November of 2019, this mighty 24 core 48 thread CPU boasts 88 PCIe 4.0 lanes (16 lanes used for high-speed interconnect, 176 PCIe 3.0 lanes effective), 142.25MB of cache, 3.8GHz base and 4.5GHz max boost clock with 280W effective TDP. This CPU competes well with entire of Intel HEDT and Xeon lineup thanks to unprecedented single core performance and insane multi core performance compared to all Intel HEDT CPUs. The new Threadripper 3000 series CPU is (in my opinion) classified as the Extreme High End Desktop (EHEDT) CPU as this CPU has both very high single core and multi core performance, high amount of PCIe lanes and L3 cache and clearly very high price (this CPU costs $1399.99 at launch) which ranks them above HEDT. ^{[Nov '19 ColdSpy]}

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The i7-8700K is Intel’s latest, top of the range, 8th generation Coffee Lake processor. Like Kaby Lake and Sky Lake before that, Coffee Lake is based on Intel’s 14nm architecture which has been slightly optimized on each iteration. Following AMD’s modus operandi, Intel has upped the cores and threads across the range of their CPUs. In previous generations, a 6-core processor would have been a high-end desk-top (HEDT) processor, however the i7-8700K is the first Intel CPU with 6 cores and 12 threads to be classified (and priced) as a mainstream consumer processor. Specifically, the i7-8700K features a base clock speed of 3.7 GHz which boosts to 4.7 GHz (4.5 GHz for the previous generation i7-7700k), 12MB of smart (L3) cache and 2 channels of DDR4 RAM. The majority of the performance improvements over the 7th generation stem from the higher core count which results in a 50% increase in multi-core speed between the i7-7700k and i7-8700k. A new motherboard will need to be factored into the budget when upgrading to the 8700K as it requires a new Intel Z370 chipset which has supposedly been designed to better deliver power to CPUs with a greater number of cores. Also available in this latest release of CPUs is the 6 core 6 thread i5-8600k which is a more rational option (around $100 cheaper) for the vast majority of users that don’t require hyper-threading. Sandy bridge owners can finally justify an upgrade but with the next iteration of AMD's Zen architecture just around the corner the CPU market will be a lot faster moving now that Intel, once again, has to compete. ^{[Sep '17 CPUPro]}

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CPU	GPU	SSD
Intel Core i5-13600K $273	Nvidia RTX 4060 $295	Crucial MX500 250GB $40
Intel Core i5-12400F $133	Nvidia RTX 4060-Ti $385	Samsung 850 Evo 120GB $80
Intel Core i5-12600K $179	Nvidia RTX 4070 $539	Samsung 860 Evo 250GB $52

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Seagate Barracuda 1TB (2016) $39	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3200 C16 2x8GB $40	SanDisk Extreme 64GB $72
WD Blue 1TB (2012) $37	Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 3000 C15 2x8GB $43	SanDisk Extreme 32GB $28
Seagate Barracuda 2TB (2016) $51	G.SKILL Trident Z DDR4 3200 C14 4x16GB $351	SanDisk Ultra Fit 32GB $16

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