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Anything coming to replace 8700k?

I'm thinking that AMD's upcoming 2700x will undoubtedly be better than the 8700k when it's used for multi-tasking and work related things where the core count matters but for gaming no. I think the Coffeelake 8 core that's been rumoured will be more about the Coffeelake range having an option available to combat the upcoming Ryzen+ 8 cores in multi tasking and at best it will only match the 8700k for gaming but more than likely it will not clock as well making it a little slower for gaming.
If Intel does manage to release an 8 core Coffeelake cpu that multitasks better than the competition & games better than the 8700k :eek: WOW!
 
curlyrif I was wrong to assume all offices are the same.

I meant like a call centre or admin type worker, where they would have just a data entry type app open or maybe just a spreadsheet, word or something.

Whilst you are talking about an office thats full of graphics/designer type people who run CAD and photoshop apps.
 
Curlyriff said:
Indeed it does as does Revit for the most part. The other software like Lumion rendering really only utilises 1 thread as well and that is very heavy when on large models but the software is excellent in terms of end result to time to complete. So indeed software this end is client based and often single threaded. We have brought some business workstation systems that are overclocked accordingly for the more taxing software but they are very expensive.
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Our big architectural clients are all using i7 too for exactly these reasons. Some are running 5ghz+ 24-7 desktops on 8700k.
 
there is no point for intel doing so when they already in front though.makes no business sense to do so.also they will probably slightly update the next lot of mobos and then do a 9700 i7 with 8 cores or whatever.no competition from amd is the reason.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
there is no point for intel doing so when they already in front though.makes no business sense to do so.also they will probably slightly update the next lot of mobos and then do a 9700 i7 with 8 cores or whatever.no competition from amd is the reason.
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PMSL.
 
no chance there will be that much of a price drop, £300 on ocuk and the rainforest has the same cpu @£249
you think OCUK will drop to under that think again lol
 
Mercutio said:
https://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-2700x-x470-review-out-beats-i7-8700k-in-7-10-game-tests/

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well thats good, but also want to point out they have deliberately picked three games that are very well optimised for heavy core cpus. Ryzen has more cores so it wins.

I think I mentioned in another thread reviewers really need to start testing poorly optimised games more as these very well optimised games are actually only a very small portion of the total PC games library and paint a bit of a false picture for PC gaming.

So the better CPU depends on the games you play, games like doom and tomb raider which are optimised for "more cores" will play best on a ryzen R7, games like lightning returns and the tales series games, which are 1 or 2 core only will play better on an intel chip.
 
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