Intel Core i7-8086K

Speed is power!

- Zak Storey

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.