The 8700k does not run particularly hot.
The advantage is that you can lock all six cores at 4700MHz.

OK I went and tweaked my audio system. My audio latency is 2.2 ms. I could go lower but I am a conservative type. I swear it sounds 20 to 40% better! :) It always sounded good now it sounds great. 
 
More testing and further reports hopefully. 

Jim Roseberry
The 8700k does not run particularly hot.
The advantage is that you can lock all six cores at 4700MHz.

But they "do" run hotter is what I have read. Thats all I meant.... I have no need to worry about heat with my noctua with 2 140mm fans and a huge heatsink

John, why does a computer make it sound better? Latency?

I tried a Noctua with dual fans and wasn't impressed with the temperature.  On my previous system I was using a liquid cooler and the CPU temps idled around 30 degrees C.  With my current i7 6700K build and the large Noctua heatsink (it barely fit in my case) and the two fans I was idling around 40 degrees C.  I replaced the Noctua with a "Captain 120EX" liquid cooler which is as quiet as the Noctua and my idle temps were back to the 30 degree C area temps and rarely go above 40 to 45 degrees C under load.  

gswitz
John, why does a new computer make it sound better? Latency?

Its known as the placebo effect.
 
Though, in this case I did expand the full range of  frequencies on my digital mixer. From 40 Hz -16 kHz to 25 Hz - 20 kHz. 
 
Also with this processor none of the projects cause it to work at all hard the performance monitor barely registers.  With a Q6600 it labored a lot. Dropping the audio buffer down to 64 samples makes no difference on the new processor, it couldn't care less. With the Q6600 it would not play at all.  
 
 

stratman70
 
But they "do" run hotter is what I have read. Thats all I meant.... I have no need to worry about heat with my noctua with 2 140mm fans and a huge heatsink

With large/quality cooler, the 8700k doesn't run hot.  
 
Using an air-cooler that's near dead-silent, the 8086k (all six cores locked at 5GHz) idles ~36-38 degrees Celsius.
 

My older I7  3770 ivy bridge with 32GB ram ran in the low 30's playing tomb raider, which only PC game I ever play. I have since it began way back when.
 
Thats weird because my i7 8700 with MSI GTX 1060 6GB and antec edge 750 PSU and 32GB ram runs runs at 30-32 and tops at 40's Also quiet as a mouse................