Intel's aptly named Coffee Lake Core i7-8700K offers a frenetic amount of performance at prices unheard of from the chip giant.

Newegg is offering the Core i7-8700K with MSI's Z370 Gaming Pro Carbon AC motherboard for $570 after a $10 mail-in-rebate.

What the 1600X has going for it is price. The Core i7-8700K is roughly 1.2x faster than the 1600X, but is 1.44x more expensive before any difference in motherboard cost is taken into account.

Intel's best ever gaming CPU is here and it's awesomely fast in other tasks too - read all about the Core i7-8700K ...

The Core i7-8700K CPU alongside a penny for scale. There is a catch to the price, however. All 8th-gen Coffee Lake CPUs require a motherboard with the Z370 chipset.

Intel Coffee Lake Core i7-8700K review: The best gaming CPU you can buy It even beats an eight-core Ryzen in many content creation apps—but boy does it run hot.

Newegg's latest combo offer pairs a Core i7-8700K with a Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 5 motherboard with built-in 802.11ac Wi-Fi connectivity.

Intel today takes the covers off its newest desktop processors, the Core i7-8700K and i5-8400 Coffee Lake CPUs. Strap in as we check them out.

For the Intel Core i7-8700K, Gigabyte Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 motherboard, Nvidia Geforce GTX 1080 Ti and 16 GB of DDR4 RAM were used, Not only that, the CPU cores are overclocked at 5.0 GHz.

Closing Remarks Having established that the Core i7-8700K is hands down faster than the Ryzen 7 2700X for gaming, it's also not a great deal faster.

Our Intel Core i7-8700K CPU review examines how this 14nm++ processor stacks up against AMD's Ryzen lineup.

To revisit the battle between the Core i7-8700K and Ryzen 7 2700X, we'll be comparing them in today's games and benchmark them alongside the 11700K and 5800X ...