Hi Guys,

I am facing a dilemma right now, i have Black Friday bundle in my basket waiting for the release at 10am with 6700k. SHould i go for the current gen or wait until January for new Kaby Lake and new motherboard?Would there be a significant difference in performance? My current i7 is very old I think it one of the first i7 gen.

If your want to upgrade id say go for the bundle. Kabylake cpu's are not going to offer anything but a minor incremental upgrade over skylake. Main difference will be the new 200 series/ union point motherboards with support for upcoming processors.

But given that you have held onto your existing setup for yonks and given that a 6700k is plenty now and we see you good for a while yet id say say some £££££'s and get the £500 bundle if your quick enough!

Bundle is a good idea at this point. No point in waiting for Kaby.

Yeah i was so busy i dint notice that my pc got old and I could not play any current game any more. Hopefully I will manage to get the bundle.

I'm waiting for kaby lake myself, if only for the z270 chipset and future upgrade possibilities.

the deal if you get one is great value for money.with current pricing and how intel drip feed performance upgrades dont expect the next gen to be bnothing much. also the bundle will be ocd. who knows the next gen might not oc aswell.so the gap will probably be closer still.

The way i look at it is, i have waited this long on a 2500k so i can wait another couple of months.

Might as well get what is current.

Zen, might as well check that out if waiting for lazylake.

I really don't expect much from zen unfortunately.

The days of AMD being competitive at the top end are long gone. Good value budget options are what they do these days.

Shame as i loved my Athlon64 setup back in the day.

Be mad to buy a dull as dishwater quad and then AMD release an 8/16 thread at similar IPC and cost to the Intel 4/8.

RavenXXX2 said:

Be mad to buy a dull as dishwater quad and then AMD release an 8/16 thread at similar IPC and cost to the Intel 4/8.

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This is my worry as well. We have been stuck with 4 cores 8 threads for years.
Anyway got myself bundle, happy times.

[information from a distributor in Vietnam] for Kabylake, the 7700K will be released in January. At default setting, it boosts to 4.5Ghz at least with Asrock Z170 OC Formula. The clock-to-clock performance is within margin of error compared to 6700K.

as we already know intel drip feed performance.the gains now are almost at a wall.so to update and sell they need to do it slowly until somekind of break through is made where we have a big jump.or its worth it for them to do so.

amd have had close to 15 years to challenge intel.they cant.its that simple.

intel will stay infront as normal.

8 core blah blah look at 8 cores previous.all slower than the intel 4 cores.doesnt matter if you got 50 cores if four does 99 percent of your daily use better.

Kaby has some interesting...range (shall we say).

Hold out...

Of course this is just total guess work and I don't know for sure...

It's too late bundle ordered already, could not resist the urge of new PC.

I have a feeling that the AMD Zen CPU if up there with performance of Broadwell E will be priced accordingly.

opethdisciple said:

I have a feeling that the AMD Zen CPU if up there with performance of Broadwell E will be priced accordingly.

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Perhaps but these are mainstream chips so the motherboards might be cheaper.

I highly doubt AMD will price things such that a motherboard + CPU combo would be the same price as Intel for the same performance. Intel have saturated the market for so long and have so much name recognition that they need a tangible edge.

I missed out on the bundle. Even on the 28th December, I'd still consider a 6700k bundle. I don't see the point in holding out any longer when I'm upgrading from a 2700k to get a better Vive experience .....

I also went for a bundle when the 6700k came.out vs a 4790k asus impact bundle.
So yeah go for the bundle in my opinion.

I would upgrade to 6700k now and to coffee lake in late 2018. Kaby lake isn't worth it. Coffee lake to have first mainstream board to 6 core.