Intel Core i7-8086K
Maximum PC|September 2018

Speed is power!

Zak Storey
Intel Core i7-8086K

WHERE DO WE EVEN BEGIN with this? Seriously. From the outset, for those who are already on Intel’s eighth-gen platform, the 8086K processor simply doesn’t make any sense. In short, it’s a pre-binned Intel Core i7-8700K, released to commemorate the fortieth anniversary of the x86 architecture. There’s a limited run of them, too—around 50,000 in total—and that’s all there really is to it. There’s nothing new here. Apart from the guaranteed 5GHz turbo out of the box, of course.

This story is from the September 2018 edition of Maximum PC.

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