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So do I save £100 with the 8600k that pays for a waterblock on the 1080Ti or what you guys think overall?
The 8700K will have 0 gaming performance over the 8600K for about the next 10 years so yes get the water block for the GPU.
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So do I save £100 with the 8600k that pays for a waterblock on the 1080Ti or what you guys think overall?
The 8700K will have 0 gaming performance over the 8600K for about the next 10 years so yes get the water block for the GPU.
this is what was said about the 2600k too, look how that turned out. the hyperthreaded i7s aged much better than the non hyperthreaded i5s
It has 6 logical processors, DX12 only uses 4 and thats not going to change for a long time.
We should all get the 7600k then if 4 threads are the future.
I didn't say threads, i said "logical processors"
The 7600K or the 8350K wouldn't be a good choice as some of it would be used up by background services ecte..
Thats why 4 core Hyper threaded CPU's perform batter than just 4 logical cores alone, and that's recent, DX12 recent. its simply gone from 2 cores in DX11 to 4 in DX12, 10 years.
So what would you recommend? A 4c8t?
The 8700K will have 0 gaming performance over the 8600K for about the next 10 years so yes get the water block for the GPU.
So do I save £100 with the 8600k that pays for a waterblock on the 1080Ti or what you guys think overall?
The choice is between an i5 8600K and a an i7 8700K, i already made my recommendation, you guys just didn't like it.
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I'd have thought given how more cores are becoming the norm the i7 would be the choice.
What gains is a water block going to bring? It seems wrong pairing an i5 with the top end gpu.
Better longevity, better overclocking so higher performance on his GPU and cooler - quieter running, that's something very tangible and desirable compared with no difference what-so-ever in gaming performance 8600K vs 8700K.
By the time longevity comes into it that 1080ti will be obsolete, i think most have 3 years warranty anyhow.
Going by history of how hyper threading helped the longevity over the i5's I'd be getting the i7. If the z370 truly is a dead platform then buying the best now makes sense.
By the time longevity comes into it that 1080ti will be obsolete, i think most have 3 years warranty anyhow.
Going by history of how hyper threading helped the longevity over the i5's I'd be getting the i7. If the z370 truly is a dead platform then buying the best now makes sense.
You're assuming that, you're assuming he doesn't want to keep the GPU for a few years... he didn't ask about the GPU, its a £650 GPU, he asked what he asked "what the CPU for the 1080TI" he wants to know if he needs to pair it with one CPU or the other.
You are answering a question he didn't ask all to sell him a more expensive CPU so Intel get £100 more out of him where he doesn't need it.
So what would you recommend? A 4c8t?
Make sense with a Nvidia card. The gaming market could go the big grain IPC route and not bother leveraging fine grain CPU performance. We do see performance per core winning and you could argue the 7740X is the best gaming chip when paired with a DX11 card with enough performance.
Again IPC has barley nothing to do with a CPU's performance.
We've already seen that you know nothing about IPC
Slower CPU's get higher FPS in that game
For that resolution and GPU, go for 8700k. i7's usually last a year or two longer than i5's, and in some games there are already big differences between the two. I agree, future-proofing isn't possible to predict, but we can look at how past i5/i7 have aged to draw conclusions.
We've already seen that you know nothing about IPC