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Any Recent Buyers of the 8700K Feeling Buyer's Remorse?

I wouldn't, I mean I have no remorse over my 7700k (albeit I got a great deal on it). It's still faster than Ryzen in nearly every single title beating it in both IPC and clock speed.

That said, no chance I'd choose an 8700k over a 2700x if I was buying new. :P
 
Happy with mine, I bought it at the end of February for mainly gaming and did have thoughts about waiting for the next AMD CPU's but after having the 8700k for nearly 2 months I'm glad I bought it, no regrets.
 
voidshatter said:
Photoshop is still the number one standard in photography editing software. Affinity Photo may be an alternative solution. For both of these, when you execute certain commands such like layer alignment, only single-thread performance matters, and you'll see only one core busy dealing with it while all other cores slack around. Throughout the entire workflow, single-thread operations may take up most of the time (bottleneck), and hence overclockability may become the decisive factor for efficiency.
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You do realise that most professionals don't overclockers their computers? Even amongst those that do build their own systems they tend to keep it stock.
 
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humbug said:
Photoshop? people who take wedding snaps use Photoshop, you photoshop on a socket 478 Pentium, a Tablet, it makes no difference, i'm talking about proper 2 and 3D work, do you actually know what Maxcon do?
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Now Humbug, I usually agree with you but as a Uni lecturer that specialises in 2D graphics and Photoshop, what the actual **** are you talking about?
 
Chuk_Chuk said:
You do realise that most professionals don't overclockers their computers? Even amongst those that do build their own systems they tend to keep it stock.
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https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...erformance-AMD-Ryzen-2-vs-Intel-8th-Gen-1136/
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...Comparison-AMD-Ryzen-2-vs-Intel-8th-Gen-1137/
2nd gen Ryzen is closing the gap, but there's still some way to go until AMD matches Intel's performance in Adobe applications.
Zen+ still only has 2x 128-bit FMAs (fused together) per core, compared to 2x 256-bit ones for Intel consumer cores, it's going to be slower in anything that uses AVX, which at this point seemingly most professional applications do. It's a trade-off, most games and consumer applications don't really make use of AVX and they can save some die space and make their cores more efficient this way.
Also I'd like to point out that Cinebench R15 is based on a pretty old version of Cinema 4D, which is on R19 at this point.
 
Swapped both my 1700X CPUs for 8700K back in November due to terrible IMCs, zero overclocking ability and platform niggles. I have no regrets at all as it was the right buy for me at the time. However, if buying today the 2700X would likely be at the top of the list, although I'd be waiting a few weeks and combing forums in great depth for people's real world experiences.

Ryzen 2 may actually be the first CPU that makes overclocking - if not pointless - then at least unnecessary. Given the headaches I had with Ryzen 1 that would be very welcome. Having said that it's possible that many of the issues I experienced with Ryzen 1 one was down to a very poor choice of motherboard (B350-F Strix).
 
zola25 said:
Swapped both my 1700X CPUs for 8700K back in November due to terrible IMCs, zero overclocking ability and platform niggles. I have no regrets at all as it was the right buy for me at the time. However, if buying today the 2700X would likely be at the top of the list, although I'd be waiting a few weeks and combing forums in great depth for people's real world experiences.

Ryzen 2 may actually be the first CPU that makes overclocking - if not pointless - then at least unnecessary. Given the headaches I had with Ryzen 1 that would be very welcome. Having said that it's possible that many of the issues I experienced with Ryzen 1 one was down to a very poor choice of motherboard (B350-F Strix).
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I had the ch6 mobo. Same issues you described.
 
I do feel bad for anyone who bought a 7700k last summer, I mean its a pretty damn good chip and in most cases will serve their owners well for years to come... but it must kinda blow to buy an expensive quad core just as everyone moves away from them, and then to add insult to injury the Z270 motherboards don't support the new chips :(
 
StarShock said:
I do feel bad for anyone who bought a 7700k last summer, I mean its a pretty damn good chip and in most cases will serve their owners well for years to come... but it must kinda blow to buy an expensive quad core just as everyone moves away from them, and then to add insult to injury the Z270 motherboards don't support the new chips :(
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Yup. Had I not got a killer deal on mine I'd be pretty disappointed right now. That said, 8 threads at 5.2ghz is nothing to sniff at. :D
 
StarShock said:
I do feel bad for anyone who bought a 7700k last summer, I mean its a pretty damn good chip and in most cases will serve their owners well for years to come... but it must kinda blow to buy an expensive quad core just as everyone moves away from them, and then to add insult to injury the Z270 motherboards don't support the new chips :(
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Most apps still rely on single core performance so I reckon 6700K/7700K owners are going to be fine for years to come. Plus gaming performance is still top notch on them.
 
AndreiD said:
Most apps still rely on single core performance so I reckon 6700K/7700K owners are going to be fine for years to come. Plus gaming performance is still top notch on them.
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I don't disagree, but it still must feel like a bit of a rip off when weeks later you could get 6 equally fast cores for the price of 4
 
I'm tossing up between 8700k and a 2700x

Think i'm going AMD this time, blender / coding etc producitivity will be amazing on 8 cores.

But I don't think there is any need for buyers remorse. 8700k is a great chip and you could always sell it if you were really itching for more cores.
 
AndreiD said:
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...erformance-AMD-Ryzen-2-vs-Intel-8th-Gen-1136/
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/a...Comparison-AMD-Ryzen-2-vs-Intel-8th-Gen-1137/
2nd gen Ryzen is closing the gap, but there's still some way to go until AMD matches Intel's performance in Adobe applications.
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These are pretty good examples of the usage of single-thread performance for industry standard applications.

Clusters and supercomputers with multiple cores have existed for decades but some algorithms have never been parallelised efficiently due to the sequential nature.
 
No, as mine (a 8700 at rrp) was bought primarily with DAW work in mind for my composing and Intel still rule the roost here (I also wanted a cpu that would take 64gb of high speed ram without tweaking/issues).

https://techreport.com/review/33531/amd-ryzen-7-2700x-and-ryzen-5-2600x-cpus-reviewed/7

For a balance of single threaded and multi threaded performance the 8700 is a great chip.

If you just wanted good multi threaded performance and were not using it for games/DAW work, you should have bought a 1800x anyway so buyers remorse should have hit immediately when you bought it 5/6 months ago :p

I will be very interested in Ryzen 3(Zen 2) on 7nm though, especially if there are improvements in DAW related tasks.

I might have been miffed if i spent £500 on one though. However, if you are into overclocking a well overclocked 8700k is still king and that might have been worth it to some. It is also nearly 6 months old now anyway.
 
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