The Intel Core i3-8350K is an oxymoron. This 8th generation Coffee Lake is an unlocked CPU priced low where one will bundle it with a B or an H series, two motherboard chipset with no overclocking option. This 8th generation CPU has four physical cores. It doesn’t have turbo clock speeds and Hyper-Threading. But it has an increased L3 cache to 8MB but with 95-watt TDP, unlike 65-watt on the 8100 and the six-core i5-8400.

If you compare it with the Core i3-7350K, it is a big step-up. The Core i3-8350K has four cores while the previous Kaby-Lake i3-7350K is a dual-core with fix clock at 4.2 GHz with 4MB L3 Cache. Therefore its a useful Core-i3 chip. The other problem with Intel restricting overclocking only with the Z series. I’ve mentioned this with the price clashing between B and H series on the B360 AORUS motherboard review. Intel should have enabled overclocking on H370 series to keep up with AMD’s chipset offering and provide better value than its B360 chipset, therefore providing excellent upgrade options for base model mid-range systems. The stubbornness overshadows this unlocked Core i3 CPU with significant additions.