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1800X to 7700K ?

Also can anyone state that buying a quad-core now is a good long-term investment ?
Most people are follwing this with a view as what to upgrade to, as I was. When you do comparisons from a 3770k or a 4770k, the choice is quite clear. You can have a high-frequency quad core or an eight core that will improve on your older i7's and provide a huge productivity boost.

(I have previously posted here and on Hexus, comparisons between my 4770k and the 1700x on 64 player BF1 games, Crysis 3 and synthetics.)
 
I wouldn't buy anything less than a 6/12 CPU now. If my system died tomorrow I'd replace it with a Ryzen 5 1600X. If I had to have Intel it would be a Coffee lake 6/12 albeit for a couple of hundred extra (guess based on total system cost).
 
Think of it this way.

Mobile phones and consoles have quickly adopted multicore CPUs. Most top end phones are 8 core now. Video game consoles are using 8 core CPUs. Of course they are no comparison to a desktop PC but the logic remains the same. Chasing higher and higher IPC and clock speeds gets more and more difficult. Spreading the workload across multiple cores IS going to be the way forward.

I think in another 2 years when higher core counts have proliferated the market much more and games are making use of them through DX12 then you will see the benefit of having more cores at a lower clock speed.
 
Phage said:
Also can anyone state that buying a quad-core now is a good long-term investment ?
Most people are follwing this with a view as what to upgrade to, as I was. When you do comparisons from a 3770k or a 4770k, the choice is quite clear. You can have a high-frequency quad core or an eight core that will improve on your older i7's and provide a huge productivity boost.

(I have previously posted here and on Hexus, comparisons between my 4770k and the 1700x on 64 player BF1 games, Crysis 3 and synthetics.)
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There is no point to buy 4 core CPU now, except you are on budget, and then opting for Ryzen 3.
The 1700 is cheaper than the 7700K while is not in a dead platform like the Z270.

Coffee lake has new Z370 motherboard to go by, not compatible with Z270.
 
TallPaul1878 said:
I think in another 2 years
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However, game developers tend to focus on console development first, and after sales have been secured, they do console port towards PC, resulting in low efficiency of CPU usage. I'd be really curious to dig this post up in 2 years. Perhaps we'll be able to see more and more games optimised for more than 4C8T.
 
voidshatter said:
However, game developers tend to focus on console development first, and after sales have been secured, they do console port towards PC, resulting in low efficiency of CPU usage. I'd be really curious to dig this post up in 2 years. Perhaps we'll be able to see more and more games optimised for more than 4C8T.
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Feel free to do so.
 
Phage said:
Also can anyone state that buying a quad-core now is a good long-term investment ?
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If you want the performance now, and will need to focus on single-thread performance, then the 7700K is a good investment.

In the far future where both 7700K and 1700X are both irrelevant for high performance, 1700X may be a better investment, but that's not what I would bother since I would have upgraded in either case and wouldn't even try to find superiority in forums with either at that time.
 
4 cores defiantly ain't enough, started streaming this through Shadow Play, i thought there was something wrong so stopped the stream and the CPU remained at the same 90 to 100% load. :O

Its insurgency @ 4K on a GTX 1070, CPU is a 4690K @ 4.6Ghz. when you have an old game running @ 4K and the CPU is still maxed out its defiantly time to accept 4 cores are not enough.



Stop buying 4 core CPU's unless you're running something less than a GTX 1060... its bad for your health :p
 
^^ I don't see Ryzen ruling in many games where reviews are using 1080 Ti or 1080 for test setup. It tends to be that CPU usage percentage is more important than fps numbers and that's the key for forum bragging rights.
 
ok let me get this straight, a lot of people are saying on here it would be foolish to invest in quad core right now right, but right now the 7700k is the king of gaming, and lets be honest, thats what most people care about, I've looked at so many benches and the 7700k nearly always is ahead and by quite a margin.

Now if you intend to keep your 7700k CPU for say 4 years by that time is the 1600X going to be the better CPU for gaming? I personally can't see that, I just can't.
 
lowrider007 said:
ok let me get this straight, a lot of people are saying on here it would be foolish to invest in quad core right now right, but right now the 7700k is the king of gaming, and lets be honest, thats what most people care about, I've looked at so many benches and the 7700k nearly always is ahead and by quite a margin.

Now if you intend to keep your 7700k CPU for say 4 years by that time is the 1600X going to be the better CPU for gaming? I personally can't see that, I just can't.
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No. The Ryzen army will repeatedly quote the very few games to conclude that within the meaningful life-cycle of the 7700K and the 1800X, the 1800X will see to the light of game engine optimisations and manage to surpass the 7700K, hence justifying their purchase and claim bragging rights.
 
I doubt very much most people here care about gaming to such an extent they are willing to pay an extra £160 for an extra 10 FPS out of 100 and only at 1080P and if running GTX 1080TI.

Even if all those qualifications are met how many is it relevant to? 2% of those reading this?
 
voidshatter said:
No. The Ryzen army will repeatedly quote the very few games to conclude that within the meaningful life-cycle of the 7700K and the 1800X, the 1800X will see to the light of game engine optimisations and manage to surpass the 7700K, hence justifying their purchase and claim bragging rights.
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Email intel and tell them to cancel coffelake. 4 cores are all we need.
 
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