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Argh - jump or wait for Comet Lake?

Vertigo

Vertigo

Vertigo

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Argh I'm back with the indecision again.

Current machine is Sandy Bridge based and nearly 9 years old. Mobo is dying (USB flaky, not stable with 16GB any more) so due for replacement.

Plan is heart transplant - new CPU, mobo, mem, SSD, cooler, likely in a new case. With the spec I want to go for (9700K based), the price for all of this has now dipped below £1k which is decent.

But Comet Lake is coming...

Do I jump or wait? How long is it likely to be before Comet Lake actually arrives? Even when it does, it's not going to offer much more performance really and will cost more as it's new, right?

Logic tells me to just do it now rather than wait but another part of me says it's daft to upgrade on the cusp of a new platform/socket.
 
The biggest issue I have with the 9700K is the lack of hyperthreading which was obviously just to differentiate it from the 9900K.

Now HT is coming back with Comet Lake (to both the i7 and i5 by the looks), the 9700K looks like it could end up being this weird blip where it's the only i7 without HT.
 
The 3700X trades blows with the 9700K but, for primarily gaming usage, they're very similar and the 3700X is only 30-40 quid cheaper which is nothing in the scheme of things.

Yes they're very competitive but I don't see the massive price/performance advantage everyone seems to go on about with the new Ryzens.
 
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