Intel to launch 6 core Coffee Lake-S CPUs & Z370 chipset 5 October 2017

southernorth · 7 Oct 2017 at 13:34

Why not wait till 2025 when all high-end CPU will be 16 core? Why not just wait till 2030? If you follow this idea of always waiting, you'll never upgrade as you hype up future releases too much.

jigger · 7 Oct 2017 at 13:36

southernorth said:
Why not wait till 2025 when all high-end CPU will be 16 core? Why not just wait till 2030? If you follow this idea of always waiting, you'll never upgrade as you hype up future releases too much.

Why not buy a 18 core i9 now. 2027 tech in 2017.

Perfect_Chaos · 7 Oct 2017 at 13:37

southernorth said:
Why not wait till 2025 when all high-end CPU will be 16 core? Why not just wait till 2030? If you follow this idea of always waiting, you'll never upgrade as you hype up future releases too much.

Because every tests with these new CPU's are showing only 1080p performance, not 1440p high hz which is what i am using.. pointless upgrading if it's not really an upgrade right?

jaffveyda · 7 Oct 2017 at 13:40

gavinh87 said:
Can I play?

All stock for now, too tired to mess about. Going to get some sleep.

Are you happy now?

Matt26LFC · 7 Oct 2017 at 13:44

Perfect_Chaos said:
Because every tests with these new CPU's are showing only 1080p performance, not 1440p high hz which is what i am using.. pointless upgrading if it's not really an upgrade right?

Surely your more GPU bound at that res anyway? You need at least a 1080 GPU or higher to push high Hz at that res, obviously game dependent to some extent

jaffveyda · 7 Oct 2017 at 13:47

subbytna said:
This makes Kaby lake obsolete now. I'm sure the likes of MSI, Asus, etc are all loving the fact they have a huge inventory of Z270 motherboards that they are now going to struggle to sell.

We're going to see Black Friday bundles again @£500 a pop like last year. But this time wont be Skylake ,Kabylake instead.

Perfect_Chaos · 7 Oct 2017 at 13:51

Matt26LFC said:
Surely your more GPU bound at that res anyway? You need at least a 1080 GPU or higher to push high Hz at that res, obviously game dependent to some extent

Apparently so, i just wondered if CPU would show a bit of difference but it can't be much if most reviewers are showing 1080p.

jigger · 7 Oct 2017 at 13:51

Matt26LFC said:
Surely your more GPU bound at that res anyway? You need at least a 1080 GPU or higher to push high Hz at that res, obviously game dependent to some extent

I doubt it. My 290 can just about deal with 2560x1440 kind of ish. Unless you mean 3440x1440.

Matt26LFC · 7 Oct 2017 at 14:00

Perfect_Chaos said:
Apparently so, i just wondered if CPU would show a bit of difference but it can't be much if most reviewers are showing 1080p.

If your GPU bound more CPU isn't going to do much, it can give you other things, but if the GPU is pegged your not going higher in framerates

jigger said:
I doubt it. My 290 can just about deal with 2560x1440 kind of ish. Unless you mean 3440x1440.

I run a GTX 1070 at 2560*1440 and it goes OK sure, but the original comment was about High Hz too, so I assumed he was wondering if a better CPU would help him achieve his 100FPS+ at that res, which your not always going to get, like I say Game Dependent and what settings you want to run at.

Some games a 1070 will hit well over 100FPS at 2560*1440 and others will be well short, just depends on many different things

smilingcrow · 7 Oct 2017 at 14:01

Perfect_Chaos said:
Because every tests with these new CPU's are showing only 1080p performance, not 1440p high hz which is what i am using..

There are plenty of reviews showing 1440P and 4K; must try harder.

gavinh87 · 7 Oct 2017 at 14:10

jaffveyda said:
Are you happy now?

Still messing about but my god bf1 feels like a different game, so much smoother than my 1700.

Housey · 7 Oct 2017 at 14:22

So I don't need to read the 62 pages...

...which one is bestest and fastest?

for d gaming

AndreiD · 7 Oct 2017 at 14:23

@Housey 8700K

Housey · 7 Oct 2017 at 14:23

AndreiD said:
@Housey 8700K

Be quicker next time please, I don't like waiting 10 seconds for a response

jigger · 7 Oct 2017 at 14:32

Housey said:
So I don't need to read the 62 pages...

...which one is bestest and fastest?

for d gaming

A 7740X with uber fast RAM.

Blueglue · 7 Oct 2017 at 14:33

At least the ones coming up for sale in private hands are cheap now

That reminds me i have a spare 8600k i need to offload.

Simon Belmont · 7 Oct 2017 at 15:26

Journey said:
At £500 I'd hope it'll last you until 2022.

As long as I get a good couple years out of it I'll be happy.

Now need to buy board on Monday. Gigabyte gaming 7 or Asus Hero, Can't decide?

Matt26LFC · 7 Oct 2017 at 15:35

Hero is out of stock

gavinh87 · 7 Oct 2017 at 15:38

Matt26LFC said:
Hero is out of stock

That went fast, I was only at OCuK yesterday and was told there are over 20 of them!
Also, gibbos mustang is cool af.

HangTime · 7 Oct 2017 at 16:27

I Would buy a 8400 if you could get decent returns from BCLK overclocking but seems that isn't the case or there would be lots of articles on it. Bring back the old days when Intel didn't support overclocking which meant no chips were singled out for nerfing... :/