The standard price on this is good (£277.97) but take the £1 Which trial and get a £15 voucher emailed to you. £262.97 with free delivery is a pretty great price for such a good 8-core processor.
From link:
"We are working with Which? to offer you a great deal. Try Which? for £1 and in return you’ll get £15 off orders over £250 when you shop on Laptops Direct. It's quick, easy, and most importantly, you'll save money."
I have been away from the site for a bit, but we did not used to have comments like this.
michaeljb
28 Aug 17#2
Nice price, however if you after a CPU for gaming I'd consider waiting a few week if you can for coffee lake, the new i5 could be better and I doubt ryzen will get any dearer
profet
28 Aug 17#3
I think the 8 core Ryzen will still be a better processor long term than the new i5s. Games are only going to get more multi-core capable in the future, so 8 cores will be a bigger and bigger advantage over 4. The difference in FPS between this and the news i5s will be pretty small at the moment though.
CoeK to profet
28 Aug 17#4
The rumours say 6 cores for the I5 coffee lake processors. Though I still wouldn't bother waiting as they aren't going to be out to buy until next year. There is always something to wait for, in 2019 cannonlake will be out which is a die shrink to 10nm.
Would rather buy a Ryzen now tbh.
CoumbBarr2000 to CoeK
28 Aug 17#5
True, the desktop 6-8-core Coffee Lake's will not be widely available until around October at the earliest. At which point you could wait another 4 months for Ryzen+. And so on and so on.
nomnomnomnom to profet
28 Aug 17#7
Sorry, but this isn't correct.
Games only get a small benefit from multi cores at the best of times. Going from 4 to 8 isn't going to yield any real gains.
The problem with games is that they don't lend themselves well to parallel tasks, so splitting a game up to more cores can actually harm the FPS if you go too far with it.
Even highly threaded, well coded games engines like UE4 very rarely gets any benefit of 4 cores, nevermind 8. Game development is a different ball game though.
fishmaster to profet
28 Aug 17#10
I'd get whatever was the fastest CPU for the task I wanted it for, future proofing and waiting for performance increases never works with computing.
MRP
28 Aug 17#8
Fortunately then the Ryzen are superb at single core and ahead of the vast majority of intel cpu.
You also happen to get twice the cores for half the price.
This 1700 can be easily over clocked to a 1800x. 3.8-3.9 on a reasonable cooler is a given.
fishmaster to MRP
28 Aug 17#23
What absolute nonsense. Intel are ahead of AMD on single core performance, whatever you're smoking go ask for a refund!
KITTYBOTS to fishmaster
28 Aug 17#24
Any of these CPUs would blow the low clocked Jaguar cores used in consoles into orbit!! :stuck_out_tongue:
fishmaster to KITTYBOTS
28 Aug 17#25
A newer high end CPU is better than an older architecture APU in a console? Sherlock Holmes has quit his job, you're too good.
KITTYBOTS to fishmaster
29 Aug 17#26
Last time I checked £200 to £300 was Intel Core i5 territory which is distinctly called "mid-range" according to many forum internet experts! If millions and millions of gamers find a "an older architecture APU in a console" acceptable for gaming,then so will many PC gamers,with a CPU with double the number of threads and a few times the single core performance! :stuck_out_tongue:
Sure all of you forum experts must be running dual GTX1080TI cards at 1080p! :stuck_out_tongue:
If not its just arguing over who runs Super PI quicker or some other useless benchmark,when most PC gamers won't have an 8 core CPU,or a 5GHZ Core i7 7700K.
I just find it pretty cool we can have a new 8C/16T CPU with reasonable performance for close to £250 in today's money,when such consumer CPUs were well beyond the reach of many only in January.
Its good to have a choice now.
Nate1492
28 Aug 17#11
Including the 'which trial' as part of your deal is just wrong by the way.
That's not available to everyone, especially if you've already used it. The price should be 277.97 with a 15 minus 1 quid opportunity.
The price is wrong anyway, it should be 263.97.
Please note: Once your trial comes to an end, your membership will continue at £10.75 a month.
This is one of those forget and charge trial services that pray on a large number of people forgetting to cancel in time. Basically, it's not something everyone will want to do, and reducing the price is not really honest, as it isn't related to the CPU deal.
You can get this same processor, from Amazon, without going through the hassle.
269.00 on Amazon, no hassle, or 263.97 with song and dance from an inferior etailer.
Gort1951
28 Aug 17#13
Still using an Intel I7 920, I need something a lot better to update and clock speeds are not getting past 4Ghz barely due to heat.
More cores is the future but the software is complicated to write.
profet
28 Aug 17#14
I think we'll see gamed become far more able to use 8+ cores, driven by the fact that the chips themselves are now mainstream. Of course there is an overhead in multithread, but with proper coding, those extra cores can absolutely be used. No one would buy a single core CPU now, would they?
All others have mentioned, this 8core Ryzen still holds its own against Intel 4 core chips - just a few FPS difference. The GPU is far more important tbh. But in the future, I think there is a very good chance quad core will be seen as sub-standard.
getknk
28 Aug 17#16
Come on AMD. Lets start the war again on CPU. Intel is having monopoly now
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Would rather buy a Ryzen now tbh.
Games only get a small benefit from multi cores at the best of times. Going from 4 to 8 isn't going to yield any real gains.
The problem with games is that they don't lend themselves well to parallel tasks, so splitting a game up to more cores can actually harm the FPS if you go too far with it.
Even highly threaded, well coded games engines like UE4 very rarely gets any benefit of 4 cores, nevermind 8. Game development is a different ball game though.
You also happen to get twice the cores for half the price.
This 1700 can be easily over clocked to a 1800x. 3.8-3.9 on a reasonable cooler is a given.
Any of these CPUs would blow the low clocked Jaguar cores used in consoles into orbit!! :stuck_out_tongue:
Sure all of you forum experts must be running dual GTX1080TI cards at 1080p! :stuck_out_tongue:
If not its just arguing over who runs Super PI quicker or some other useless benchmark,when most PC gamers won't have an 8 core CPU,or a 5GHZ Core i7 7700K.
I just find it pretty cool we can have a new 8C/16T CPU with reasonable performance for close to £250 in today's money,when such consumer CPUs were well beyond the reach of many only in January.
Its good to have a choice now.
That's not available to everyone, especially if you've already used it.
The price should be 277.97 with a 15 minus 1 quid opportunity.
The price is wrong anyway, it should be 263.97.
Please note: Once your trial comes to an end, your membership will continue at £10.75 a month.
This is one of those forget and charge trial services that pray on a large number of people forgetting to cancel in time.
Basically, it's not something everyone will want to do, and reducing the price is not really honest, as it isn't related to the CPU deal.
You can get this same processor, from Amazon, without going through the hassle.
amazon.co.uk/AMD…700
269.00 on Amazon, no hassle, or 263.97 with song and dance from an inferior etailer.
More cores is the future but the software is complicated to write.
All others have mentioned, this 8core Ryzen still holds its own against Intel 4 core chips - just a few FPS difference. The GPU is far more important tbh. But in the future, I think there is a very good chance quad core will be seen as sub-standard.