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6800k or 7700k

Priced up a 5820k, asrock x99 board and 16gb of ram and I'm looking at around £640.

So minus the £400 voucher i have, I'm looking at a £240 outlay.

I'm guessing a 7700k setup will cost me around £100 less.
 
I just had a look at the prices on the ocuk bundles.
6700k is significantly cheaper.

If your in no rush you might as well wait and see what 7700k brings. Might be a bit better, might be almost the same.
 
As gaming is probably my biggest usage, I'd want to see some gaming benchmarks before considered zen.

So far only 8 core chip details have been released. Seems more of a workstation chip at the moment.

Would be very interested in a higher clocked 6 core version though assuming the price was good.

I have a feeling the 7700k will be the fastest gaming chip for the next couple of years. They will likely clock to 4.8ghz and have higher ipc. Although as we already know, it's just a slightly higher clocked 6700k...
 
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Wait for Zen if you can, please. That would be my advice. If this automatic over clocking is good and easily gets the 8 core to 4GHz or more on reasonable cooling as well as being much cheaper then the only sensible choice would be Zen.

Also, there are rumours of a quad core Kabylake competitor for just $150 as well as hexacores, these may have significantly higher base clock speeds out of the box than the 8 core. I think you'll regret getting Intel now if AMD release something better in January for half the price.
 
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Wait for Zen if you can, please. That would be my advice. If this automatic over clocking is good and easily gets the 8 core to 4GHz or more on reasonable cooling as well as being much cheaper then the only sensible choice would be Zen.

Also, there are rumours of a quad core Kabylake competitor for just $150 as well as hexacores, these may have significantly higher base clock speeds out of the box than the 8 core. I think you'll regret getting Intel now if AMD release something better in January for half the price.
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This auto overclocking / boosting thing dependant on coolness of the CPU is interesting, i like how they state the better the cooling the faster the chip will run, coupled with that other tech about learning how you use the chip will improve its performance, its pretty crazy stuff.

Zen is definitely worth waiting for if only to see if they can pull off what they are showing and claiming, and its actually the reality and not just a best case scenario.
 
ltron said:
Wait for Zen if you can, please. That would be my advice. If this automatic over clocking is good and easily gets the 8 core to 4GHz or more on reasonable cooling as well as being much cheaper then the only sensible choice would be Zen.

Also, there are rumours of a quad core Kabylake competitor for just $150 as well as hexacores, these may have significantly higher base clock speeds out of the box than the 8 core. I think you'll regret getting Intel now if AMD release something better in January for half the price.
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ltron said:
Wait for Zen if you can, please. That would be my advice. If this automatic over clocking is good and easily gets the 8 core to 4GHz or more on reasonable cooling as well as being much cheaper then the only sensible choice would be Zen.

Also, there are rumours of a quad core Kabylake competitor for just $150 as well as hexacores, these may have significantly higher base clock speeds out of the box than the 8 core. I think you'll regret getting Intel now if AMD release something better in January for half the price.
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I Also agree, if anything, zen should maybe make intel re-evaluate their pricing and maybe make things a little more affordable....
 
mattyc1977 said:
I Also agree, if anything, zen should maybe make intel re-evaluate their pricing and maybe make things a little more affordable....
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Its Win-Win for us as consumers if Intel drop their prices as AMD need to be competively priced to gain market share, maybe at the 8/16 end they will still be out of the price of most users, but at the 4/8 end of things they will need to be cheaper than Intel anyhow as their brand strength has taken a hammering for so long they will need to be cheaper for people to take the gamble.
 
It does seem that amd are at least going to be competitive with zen. We have desperately needed a competitive amd to stop intel resting on their laurels and price gouging.

I do think more cores is the future. But i doubt you'll need more than a quad i7 for gaming for a few years yet.
 
well it will mainly come down to what you doing.

some recent games have made ways into using extra cores.bf1 shows this.i played another recent title in testing which does also.

its all budget at end of the day.

zen could be great for budget.going by the blender results of 100 runs a 5820k and 6800 is still quicker.if that is there chosen benchmark it will kinda show that the ones that dont favour them will be even slower.games for eg.
 
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