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7700k kabylake or wait for coffeelake

roachyuk

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After reading about the kabylake ive noticed a lot off people saying it runs way to hot....not is this because they are overclocking too high or is it like that on say stock and 4.8ghz.

I see a new cpu is due out in August called the coffeelake would i be best waiting for that or take the plunge now on the kabylake ...i already have my memory and board a Asus Z270E Strix what you guys reckon thanks.
 
Coffeelake is unlikely to be any cooler, nor is it likely to have a better heatsink interface, I'm also not sure how big of a leap it will be other than it may offer 6c/12t desktop part for the first time instead the 4c/8t of the last however many years.
 
Unlikely that coffeelake will work with that board. You can wait to find out but you've essentially bought yourself into a quad core.
 
Kaby Lake does run hot when overclocked and not delidded. I doubt Coffee Lake will be much different - even if it reaches similar clock speeds it'll likely pump out even more heat so typical overclocks are likely to be lower.
 
The CoffeeLake needs Z370 boards to work apparently and is delayed until 2018 or Xmas time the earliest
https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/intel-z370-chipset


Maybe a Ryzen 7 1700 is better option? You can overclock it, it doesn't run hot for what it is, and is better investment for the long term, while is cheaper as platform.
And can strap Zen+ next year to it, if you want higher clocks (~4.3-4.5Ghz)
 
7700k it is then not to fussed about the and one off the games I play doesn't run too good on that cpu Arma3 exile .
 
roachyuk said:
7700k it is then not to fussed about the and one off the games I play doesn't run too good on that cpu Arma3 exile .
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Are you sure? At this moment is dead platform, and as you will find from other similar discussions in here, people opted for the R7 1700 instead of the 7700K.
 
Panos said:
Are you sure? At this moment is dead platform, and as you will find from other similar discussions in here, people opted for the R7 1700 instead of the 7700K.
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Arma 3 runs better on the single core performance hence intels single core is faster ...but im unsure about the ryzen but the clock speeds look slower which has swayed me towards staying intel
 
roachyuk said:
Arma 3 runs better on the single core performance hence intels single core is faster ...but im unsure about the ryzen but the clock speeds look slower which has swayed me towards staying intel
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Regardless of which people choose,
Ryzen: 1600, 1700
Intel: 7600k, 7700k
The pc will still be a beast and demolish pretty much all games to be fair I mean there is a heavy dependency on GPU after all. Of course if the usage is workstation, rendering etc and not gaming then it will be a little different
 
Panos said:
The CoffeeLake needs Z370 boards to work apparently and is delayed until 2018 or Xmas time the earliest
https://www.pcgamesn.com/intel/intel-z370-chipset


Maybe a Ryzen 7 1700 is better option? You can overclock it, it doesn't run hot for what it is, and is better investment for the long term, while is cheaper as platform.
And can strap Zen+ next year to it, if you want higher clocks (~4.3-4.5Ghz)
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What is Zen+? Sorry for my lack of knowledge!
 
Zen+ is the next revision of the Zen architecture, still using a 14 nm process. It will hopefully increase clock speeds beyond the current 4.0-4.1 GHz limit and improve IPC a bit but at this stage we know nothing about it aside from it being due next year. Zen 2 is slated for 2019 and will be on 7 nm.

What we do know though is that AMD plans to support the AM4 platform until at least 2020, hence you can buy into Ryzen now and have an upgrade path.
 
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roachyuk said:
7700k it is then not to fussed about the and one off the games I play doesn't run too good on that cpu Arma3 exile .
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Coffeelake will most likely use the same CPU core as Sky/Kaby Lake and on the same process, you won't notice much difference in low threaded games.
 
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