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7700k availability?

kaku said:
People have been saying 5GHz overclock for the last 3-4 generations...
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Aye, devils canyon was meant to be a 5ghz cert, even intel were out flapping their gums about getting 4.5 with an air cooler easily. The reviews begged to differ to say the least.
 
I usually struggle keeping a lid on my upgrade itch, but in the CPU space it's been surprisingly easy for the last few years. Long may it continue tbh, it leaves me more money to waste on other parts of my system.
 
I almost bought a 5820K today to upgrade from my 2700K but he hassle of a full system rebuild and finding a new cooler put me off.

Looks like Sandybridge will live on a little longer.

Kabylake of Skylake-X? Hmmmmmm.....
 
Minstadave said:
Is it anything more than a slight skylake refresh?

If that's all it is then I'll splash the cash on Skylake-X.
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We aren't 100% sure, but probably just between 0-5% better IPC, with better overclocking (built on Intel's newer 14nm+ and stock speed is 4.5 GHz)

The bigger thing in many ways is the Z270 chipset. It supports the next gens of CPUs up to 14nm Coffee Lake (which should be 6-core) and 10nm Cannon Lake. Also has 4 extra PCI-E lanes, for PCI SSDs, and supports Intel & Micron's 3D Xpoint memory (or Optane).

3D Xpoint memory should allow for PCI SSDs with reads more than 15 GB/s (yes, big B).
 
Minstadave said:
I almost bought a 5820K today to upgrade from my 2700K but he hassle of a full system rebuild and finding a new cooler put me off.

Looks like Sandybridge will live on a little longer.

Kabylake of Skylake-X? Hmmmmmm.....
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why is your system totally water cooled it takes about a hr to put a system together :D

are people impressed by the figures even if fake.

cinebench a 5820k ocd is twice as fast as a 3770.which has been available for few years now.
 
AllBodies said:
We aren't 100% sure, but probably just between 0-5% better IPC, with better overclocking (built on Intel's newer 14nm+ and stock speed is 4.5 GHz)

The bigger thing in many ways is the Z270 chipset. It supports the next gens of CPUs up to 14nm Coffee Lake (which should be 6-core) and 10nm Cannon Lake. Also has 4 extra PCI-E lanes, for PCI SSDs, and supports Intel & Micron's 3D Xpoint memory (or Optane).

3D Xpoint memory should allow for PCI SSDs with reads more than 15 GB/s (yes, big B).
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Note that Cannonlake appears to be a low-powered part only (hence the existence of Coffee Lake) and also that Optane has been delayed by quite a bit. We also have no idea how much overclocking headroom will exist with Kaby Lake. Most Skylake chips can get to 4.6 GHz, maybe most Kaby Lake ones will reach 4.8 GHz but we don't know yet.
 
DragonQ said:
Note that Cannonlake appears to be a low-powered part only (hence the existence of Coffee Lake)
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Maybe, we'll have to wait and see. Coffee Lake is supposed to be exactly the same arch. as Cannon Lake.

So it could just be Intel aren't really changing anything, they're just using 14nm+ instead of 10nm for desktop because it'll work out faster. And they just changed the name to Coffee to avoid being misleading.

DragonQ said:
also that Optane has been delayed by quite a bit.
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This is half-true. The RAM replacements have been delayed (if they ever said they'd be soon), but not the PCI SSDs.

So we should still see crazy-fast SSDs, from both Intel and Micron (Crucial brand). With Intel possibly launching their first round before the end of the year.

But we won't see non-volatile RAMdisk RAM for 3 ish years.
 
IvanDobskey said:
I'm expecting an average 7700k overclock to be 4.8ghz.
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I think we were all expecting that out of Ivybridge, Haswell, Devil's Canyon and Skylake too. Oh how naive we were :D

However I tend to agree that Kaby is looking like a fair jump from Sandy and the 4.2 base clock suggests Intel have a lot of confidence. If it delivers 30% or more IPC improvement (vs Sandy) and better clocks, then I'll probably be grabbing a 7700k :)
 
maklabouhlel said:
Is it a good time to sell 6700k to get ready for 7700k? I mean who's going to buy a 6700k once 7700k is here since they both use the same socket.
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Lots of people will, since the 6700k won't decrease in price new, and the 7700k will be around £300 new as well.

There'll be a big market for 2nd hand 6700k's for ~£200 I'd imagine.
 
No point replacing a 6700k with a 7700k. There's not going to be any ipc improvements at all. The 7700k has a slightly higher clock speed out of the box though.
 
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