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8700k @ 5ghz swap to 2700x?

faceman123

faceman123

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Hey folks, need some advice.

I'm tempted to make the switch to AM4.

anyone done this? is it worth it? my 8700k sits happily at 5ghz at a push 5.1 all day long.
 
Why, whats your "use case" that would benefit from the extra cores in the AMD (probably not gaming), if not then it's just going to be sidegrade
 
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Its not worth it, even in the best case productivity workloads the 2700X not a lot faster than the 8700K at 5Ghz, if at all, and you would lose a little gaming performance if you gamed at 1080P with a faster GPU.

In any use case there isn't that much difference between the 8700K and the 2700X.

If you want to see what Ryzen 3000 looks like consider it them, not now :)
 
Only reason you'd do it is just to try out Ryzen. If you wanted to do that, then now is the time while you still get significant resale value for the 8700K.
 
I don't see a point in it so I would say at least wait for Zen 2 on 7nm in 2019 and see how it does vs the 8700k in the programs you use.
 
As others have said, the only logical reason for swapping is to get the best possible re-sale value for your current 8700K. Prices are still high in the second hand market at the moment. When Ryzen 2 hit's the market next year, that could change significantly for a number of reasons.
One being that Ryzen 2 may well blow the 8700k and the 9900k out of the water anyway. The second being that Ryzen 2 will almost certainly be a lot cheaper than any Intel offering. Thirdly but most importantly is that Intel have already shot there bolt with the 9900K, in other words they won't have any sort of answer to Ryzen 2 and won't have that answer for at least another couple of years.
 
I don't really understand how someone who had a high end chip at 5ghz can't work out if changing a cpu is a worthwhile or not. If it was a complete amateur buying a new pc I'd get it. But with a bit of pc knowledge should be able to work it out yourself.
 
faceman123 said:
Hey folks, need some advice.

I'm tempted to make the switch to AM4.

anyone done this? is it worth it? my 8700k sits happily at 5ghz at a push 5.1 all day long.
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Hey,

The best option is to wait March-April next year and then switch to the newly released AM4 with Ryzen 3000 series.
 
Hedge said:
I don't really understand how someone who had a high end chip at 5ghz can't work out if changing a cpu is a worthwhile or not. If it was a complete amateur buying a new pc I'd get it. But with a bit of pc knowledge should be able to work it out yourself.
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Must have more money then sense..Get the 9900k if thats the case for a margeable upgrade if needs be, or go the whole hog, with the 2066 i9 cpu's
 
Swapping out a 8700k @5ghz is madness. Unless you want huge multi-threading potential for specific useage get a threadripper. Anything else it's totally not worth it.
 
MartinPrince said:
It is a bit of an oversight. The OP's usage will be the key to useful responses.
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I don't think any use scenario would justify a swap from one to the other, really, unless OP hoping to get a good price for the 8700K to buy a 2700X and have some spare cash. Unless they're wanting to do that, and confident they'd not lose out on the mobo too and already have compatible memory, it would probably best to stick with what they have, especially if most intensive use of it is gaming.
OP's lack of detail on how the system is used means they're probably a general user, ie, browsing, gaming mostly.
 
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Phil2008 said:
I thought that,,,,,,, A draft question to get people going
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Are people here really that touchy? I agree with OP, and am considering the exact same thing (2700x or TR). I have the 8Pack 5GHz 8700k (see sig if not on mobile), because it was the best in the price range at the time; but I'd really use the extra cores/multicore power. I run half a dozen VMs at a time, half a dozen servers, while simultaneously coding firewall stuff, encrypting/decrypting WireGuard VPN traffic at 380Mbps, serving Plex to the network and encoding video. I don't game. Ever. If that's not a AM4 use case I don't know what is. Maybe OP is the same. With prices as they are I'm not going to lose out and if I grab the Asus CH7 X470 or similar I can just drop in the next Ryzen release without issues. *shrug*
 
Is it really worth the money for the 2 extra slower cores tho.. you might aswel get a half decent upgrade then the 2700x to make it worth doing.
 
Phil2008 said:
Is it really worth the money for the 2 extra slower cores tho.. you might aswel get a half decent upgrade then the 2700x to make it worth doing.
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In my case I was undecided at first and now wish I'd gone AM4. With prices as they are it's effectively a free swap and I get a significantly higher multicore power for my use case. If I was paying to upgrade I'd just go TR (my next upgrade path probably) but for now it's a bit of a no brainer at effectively no cost.
 
yes deffo,, if your not doing any gaming, more cores, slower clocks is the way to go, but swapping the 8700k for the slighly quicker 2700x,, I wouldn't,,,,, not enough of a performance boost to make it worth doing. Id get a 12core TR to make it worth doing and especially if your not gamming on it... A work horse machine
 
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