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powerbrick
28 Sep 17#1
excellent cpu blows Ryzen out of the water if you're a gamer.
Aretak to powerbrick
28 Sep 17#6
There are very few games where it "blows Ryzen out of the water". Titles like Far Cry: Primal are the exception, rather than the rule. You can also buy a 1600 for £100 less than this and get 90% of the gaming performance, and pair it with a sub-£100 motherboard. Not to mention that it's all entirely irrelevant anyway unless you have a 144Hz+ monitor.
Buying one of these things now, with even Intel releasing six core chips in a few weeks and eight core chips next year, is a very poor investment, even if you want to buy Intel. The i3-8350K is an unlocked quad core and has a $168 RRP, so should be about £150 here. And you'll be able to buy a six core i5-8600K or i7-8700 for the same money as this "deal".
Kaby Lake is irrelevant at this point, now that it's confirmed there's no compatibility between Z270 and Z370 boards, unless you're getting a really amazing deal.
Nate1492 to Aretak
28 Sep 17#18
Who upgrades CPUs that frequently? If you buy this i7 7700k, you are happy to wait a few years surely.
powerbrick to Aretak
28 Sep 17#28
Crank it up the 5ghz and I'll think you are wrong.
MRP to powerbrick
28 Sep 17#12
A Ryzen 7 has almost double the total processing power compared to this.
Cold as while the 7700k might end up faster on single core than coffee Lake it’s a bad purchase in this day and age for that very reason. Aim for more cores.
Nate1492 to MRP
28 Sep 17#19
This is terrible advice, you need to understand each person's use case first.
MRP to Nate1492
28 Sep 17#22
To follow your laughable advice for an expensive quad core in 2017. From someone who seems to be a paid poster
Nate1492 to MRP
28 Sep 17#38
Where did I suggest to buy this CPU so close to the 8700k launch? Pretty sure I just shot down your 'more cores is better' garbage.
powerbrick to MRP
28 Sep 17#27
Utter rubbish, clock speed is still king in gaming.
By your logic we should all be getting 22 core Xeons :blush:
Smells like a paid for poster :raised_hand:
nevergofull
28 Sep 17#2
For a casual gamer would an I5-7500 do the job, or wait for Coffeelake?
pidgin to nevergofull
28 Sep 17#26
any cpu does the job really. I'd pick up i5-8400, only a week or two away
nevergofull to pidgin
28 Sep 17#40
Thanks, with a 1070 I assume Id be able to run PUBG? and the i5-8400
Looking4Glitches
28 Sep 17#3
I currently have an i5 4670k + gtx 1070 sc and when playing BF1 I get 100% cpu usage spikes regular, my cousin only has an Amd fx 6350 and he gets no problems.
adamspencer95 to Looking4Glitches
28 Sep 17#4
but what GPU is he using?
Joshimitsu91 to Looking4Glitches
28 Sep 17#8
100% CPU usage isn't a problem when running a game. Most likely the game does not utilise all the AMD's cores so it never hits 100% load across the whole CPU. That or it is being GPU limited.
Crustybeaver to Looking4Glitches
28 Sep 17#37
What is his and your gaming resolutions?
CHAOSEN3
28 Sep 17#5
Bought mine for £320 in January.
If you're looking for a great CPU for gaming then you'll find none better than this until the 8700K is released. Although it may be worth waiting for that if you're going to purchase a new CPU anyway.
I own one that's OC'd to 5.1GHz, but runs a tad bit hot. I've also delidded the CPU which has dropped the temps by around 20C at full load.
airdam
28 Sep 17#7
Isn't the new i7 7800 pit oon the 5th October? That might have an affect on the price of this model.
MysticalUndies
28 Sep 17#9
The price of this wont drop a huge amount as you can't put coffee lake in a z170 or z270 mobo. This leaves the 7700k and 6700k as the only upgrade options unless you buy a new z370 mobo. I paid 280 for this 3 months ago and if it were to drop I'd have expected it to have already happened. Coffee lake is released on Wednesday. If you need a new mobo then don't buy this and wait a few days!
Gormond
28 Sep 17#10
Seems silly buying this now when the new chips are out in a week.
vulcanproject
28 Sep 17#11
8700k is less than two weeks away. No point buying this. 8700K will beat up a Ryzen 1700 across the board for not much more money including destroying it in games and overclocking, so don't be buying an old generation now
adam0812 to vulcanproject
28 Sep 17#14
Going from a 4790k w ddr3 to a 8700k with ddr4 do you think I would see much performance gains? I'm fairly knowledgeable about GPU's but never really paid much attention to CPU's (due to not needing to be honest given what I've got already). I'm running a 1080ti and do like the occasional game of battlefield. My PC is also connected to my 4k tv and I have a 4k monitor also and I understand the 7XXX+ CPU's is the only way to get 4k netflix playback.
vulcanproject to adam0812
28 Sep 17#16
Performance gain will be highly dependent on application. I assume however you mean in games? In that case, you wouldn't see much gain in most games at all, only in games that are better threaded to use more than 4 cores, which in truth isn't many.
In future there will be obvious gains but some ways away for most titles I suspect. As for other applications, there would be big gains since you're adding two more cores to the mix. For example 8700K would be a great deal faster in transcoding tasks.
Scottc123 to adam0812
28 Sep 17#17
I have a 4790k and will be waiting for several more generations before even thinking about upgrading. The most CPU demanding things I do are Cemu emulation and some quantum chemical calculations, where single thread performance is key. There just aren't many situations for me where I need to utilse 12 concurrent threads. Given that you don't follow CPU technology closely, then I suspect neither do you have such needs.
CHAOSEN3 to Scottc123
28 Sep 17#29
Single thread performance on the 7700K is amazing, and from the leaked 8700K benchmarks there looks to be a 10%~ improvement on IPC over the 7700K.
This is a great price for the 7700K but it's not worth buying brand new as Coffeelake should be dropping in 2 weeks or so.
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Buying one of these things now, with even Intel releasing six core chips in a few weeks and eight core chips next year, is a very poor investment, even if you want to buy Intel. The i3-8350K is an unlocked quad core and has a $168 RRP, so should be about £150 here. And you'll be able to buy a six core i5-8600K or i7-8700 for the same money as this "deal".
Kaby Lake is irrelevant at this point, now that it's confirmed there's no compatibility between Z270 and Z370 boards, unless you're getting a really amazing deal.
Cold as while the 7700k might end up faster on single core than coffee Lake it’s a bad purchase in this day and age for that very reason. Aim for more cores.
By your logic we should all be getting 22 core Xeons :blush:
Smells like a paid for poster :raised_hand:
If you're looking for a great CPU for gaming then you'll find none better than this until the 8700K is released. Although it may be worth waiting for that if you're going to purchase a new CPU anyway.
I own one that's OC'd to 5.1GHz, but runs a tad bit hot. I've also delidded the CPU which has dropped the temps by around 20C at full load.
In future there will be obvious gains but some ways away for most titles I suspect. As for other applications, there would be big gains since you're adding two more cores to the mix. For example 8700K would be a great deal faster in transcoding tasks.
This is a great price for the 7700K but it's not worth buying brand new as Coffeelake should be dropping in 2 weeks or so.