Cores and clock speeds, base, boosts, and threads: the march of progress in the processing world continues ever on. With each passing generation, we see these advancements tick by but with Coffee Lake, Intel is defending their claim on the marketplace superiority against a reinvigorated AMD. We wanted to see for ourselves just what Intel’s latest i7 has to offer, so today we’re putting the Intel Core i7-8700K through its paces. We’re upgrading from an i7-7700K and had to know: is it worth the upgrade?