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

BTVA said:
so I bought the Asrock Z370 ITX Gaming. The Strix sucks now.
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How so? Give more info mate :)

IT Troll said:
Look on the bright side, every day you wait it out, Z390 gets even closer. May as well wait for the proper chipset at this point.
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When few pages back wrote to someone that ain't worth to upgrade right now, since we know that Z390 and 8 core CFL coming out late Q1 2018, everyone and his dog fell on me.
 
Panos said:
How so? Give more info mate :)



When few pages back wrote to someone that ain't worth to upgrade right now, since we know that Z390 and 8 core CFL coming out late Q1 2018, everyone and his dog fell on me.
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I retract my previous comment. Asrock is good when dealing with memory at 1T and cache overclocking but everything else it is behind the Asus
 
Panos said:
How so? Give more info mate :)
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When first released the Strix boards were in petty poor shape. LLC didn’t work, causing bad vdroop, and XMP with multi core enhancement resulted in excessive over volting. I think that is all mostly fixed now with the latest beta bios, but it smacks of a rushed released. They also seem to be strangely stingy with rear USB ports for some reason.
 
IT Troll said:
When first released the Strix boards were in petty poor shape. LLC didn’t work, causing bad vdroop, and XMP with multi core enhancement resulted in excessive over volting. I think that is all mostly fixed now with the latest beta bios, but it smacks of a rushed released. They also seem to be strangely stingy with rear USB ports for some reason.
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Ofc is fixed. I have the Z370I these are long ironed issues :)

He was referring to 1T on ram.
 
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Happy with the 8700 (non k). Basically performs exactly the same as a stock 8700k and as i won't be overclocking (need 64gb ram and rock sollid stability for DAW work)

Boosts to 4.3ghz all core and up to 4.6 on one core/low work loads


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not bad for £269
 
Jono8 said:
Happy with the 8700 (non k). Basically performs exactly the same as a stock 8700k and as i won't be overclocking (need 64gb ram and rock sollid stability for DAW work)

Boosts to 4.3ghz all core and up to 4.6 on one core/low work loads


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not bad for £269
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What are you cooling it with, and what are temps like under load?
 
I was going to go buy a 8700k but with the extreme markup with the low supply I'm just going to wait another few months to see what Ryzen+ brings, it'll be interesting to see what Icelake is like with the Z390 chipset, wonder if it'll be 8c/16t.
 
It's impressive how the pricing in the UK is so bad when in some countries on the continent the 8700K is at MSRP already:
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£326 for the boxed version at an unnamed retailer (I don't want to get banned) in Eastern EU. In fact I counted 10 retailers with 8700K stock at close to the £330 mark.
Meanwhile in the UK... price gouging galore.
 
It's listed in the UK for pre-order at £349.90 at the time of writing, although when it will be dispatched I don't know. I'd imagine Easter time at a guess, so supply and demand will keep the price"Fair" until then.
 
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