Coffee Lake only has 2 overclockable cpu's?

[Thinkfreely]

So since the sku's dropped something that I though was a misstep on Intel's part is it appears that there are only 2 overclockable sku's in the coffeelake lineup.

	Cores/Threads	Base clock (GHz)	Turbo all cores/one core (GHz)	L3 cache	TDP	Price (EU, inc VAT)
i7-8700K	6/12	3.7	4.3/4.7	12MB	95W	€388
i7-8700	6/12	3.2	4.3/4.6	12MB	65W	€327
i5-8600	6/6	3.6	4.1/4.3	9MB	95W	€273
i5-8400	6/6	2.8	3.8/4	9MB	65W	€192
i3-8350K	4/4	4	–	8MB	91W	€189
i3-8300	4/4	4	–	8MB	65W	?
i3-8100	4/4	4	–	8MB	65W	€123

 

This struck me as a huge opportunity lost as since all Ryzen sku's are overclockable, Intel has to start meeting them where they are at. It's nice they finally had their hand forced to give us more cores, and initial IPC and multitasking performance improvement look promising, but them not unlocking all their sku's or offering 8 core variants as well shows a lack of foresight to me.

[PCGuy_5960]

Meh, overclockable i5s were bad value anyways. You can get an i7 with a B series board for the same amount of money as an i5 K with a Z270 board and the i7 performs better.

 

EDIT: If you added a source and a quote, this could be tech news

[Thinkfreely]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

Meh, overclockable i5s were bad value anyways. You can get an i7 with a B series board for the same amount of money as an i5 K with a Z270 board and the i7 performs better.

More reason to unlock the entire sku, to add that value at every price point.

[Princess Luna]

Profits are insanely huge for Intel being able to over-tax people for that little K on their CPU... not to mention the much more expensive Z chipset.

 

I am not sure with coffee lake as the core increase has tuned down some the frequencies but Skylake and Kaby Lake overclocking was nothing but a luxury that you didn't really need to get close to the most out of the processors.

 

I still think the i7 7700 is Kaby Lakes best offering as it gives you almost a full i7 7700k potential for muuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch less (no need to aftermarket cooler, no need for Z chipset no need for delid)

[NumLock21]

It's been like this since forever. What's the surprise about?

[Thinkfreely]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Profits are insanely huge for Intel being able to over-tax people for that little K

Im not a INTEL or AMD fanboy, being a fanboy is like being a certain political party, or seeing things in black and white, its assinine. I used INTEL for 5 years up to Ryzen, because it was the better performance and better value. Now I use Ryzen because its the better value. I hope INTEL takes another hit, if they don't adapt.

[Thinkfreely]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

It's been like this since forever. What's the surprise about?

No surprise, just a easily missed opportunity.

[Brooksie359]

Can i ask where you got the info on skus and pricing? It might be that the info you got was wrong or incomplete.

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, Thinkfreely said:

No surprise, just a easily missed opportunity.

Intel missed opportunity?

They are company who won't even lower the price of their old cpus, and you want them to have all of their cpus unlock for overclocking?!

 

[Thinkfreely]

3 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

Can i ask where you got the info on skus and pricing? It might be that the info you got was wrong or incomplete.

TR review and Wccftech among others, here is a comparative more to updated sku list that has 3 k cpu's, still though

 

CPU Name	Intel Core i3-8100	Intel Core i3-8300	Intel Core i3-8350K	Intel Core i5-8400	Intel Core i5-8600K	Intel Core i7-8700	Intel Core i7-8700K
CPU Family	Coffee Lake-S	Coffee Lake-S	Coffee Lake-S	Coffee Lake-S	Coffee Lake-S	Coffee Lake-S	Coffee Lake-S
CPU Process	14nm	14nm	14nm	14nm	14nm	14nm	14nm
CPU Cores	4	4	4	6	6	6	6
CPU Threads	4	4	4	6	6	12	12
Base Clock	3.60 GHz	4.00 GHz	4.00 GHz	2.80 GHz	3.50 GHz	3.20 GHz	3.70 GHz
Boost Clock (Max)	N/A	N/A	N/A	3.90 GHz	4.40 GHz	4.60 GHz	4.70 GHz
Boost Clock (6 Core)	N/A	N/A	N/A	3.50 GHz	4.20 GHz	4.20 GHz	4.30 GHz
L2 Cache	1 MB (256 KB per Core)	1 MB (256 KB per Core)	1 MB (256 KB per Core)	1.5 MB (256 KB per Core)	1.5 MB (256 KB per Core)	1.5 MB (256 KB per Core)	1.5 MB (256 KB per Core)
L3 Cache	6 MB	6 MB	8 MB	9 MB	9 MB	12 MB	12 MB
Overclocking Support	No	No	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes
Socket Support	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	LGA 1151	LGA 1151
PCH	200-Series	300-Series	200-Series	300-Series	300-Series	300-Series	300-Series
TDP	65W	65W	95W	65W	95W	65W	95W