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

~>Dg<~ said:
the whole point is you are on a enthusiast forum for pcs.many of us want the utter best or as high as we can afford.people are trying to say ryzen is as fast as intels they can be close just arent as fast.you pay for having the best.thats why the intels generally cost more.it doesnt matter if you agree or not.you pay for that small extra.then people are arguing about value.

it isnt generally 1 fps though.in reality often the ryzen are 10-20 fps behind a 7700k or a 6700k ocd.they arent even that dear as the high end x299 that people slate because they on the amd bus.the funny thing is some of the x299 cpus destroy the ryzen chips in games.not close destroy.now is it worth the huge amount of money? thats upto you.one person wont mind some will be happy with amd performance which is close on many games.thats why they talk about value and not worth the extra.

intel chips on the whole though are still quite a bit faster across the board unless some biased benchmark websites who are often affiliated want to show otherwise.

doesnt matter if ryzen isnt a mile behind its still slower in games.many enthusiasts want the fastest.not value.
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As this is an enthusiast forum, I expect everyone to be gaming at at least 1440p, not casual-tier 1080p, in which case there is approximately 0% improvement from choosing an i7-7700K. :D

AthlonXP1800 said:
Sweeper leaked final 8700K specification:

Intel® Core™ i7-8700K

6C/12T

12MB L3

3.7 GHz Base

4.3 GHz 6-core Turbo

4.4 GHz 4-core Turbo

4.6 GHz 2-core Turbo

4.7 GHz 1-core Turbo

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/comments/6pjj6e/core_i78700k_coffee_lake_specifications_47_ghz/

4.7GHz max boost on 1 core and 4.3GHz on all 6 cores... Holy batman! :eek:
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Sounds good if it can hold it with reasonable TDP. We don't know yet if they'll be using the new "mesh" architecture of Skylake-X, which could still leave it slower than the i7-7700K in single-threaded performance even with a higher turbo frequency. It sounds like there might not be much overclocking headroom, unless these can get to 5 GHz too without ridiculous cooling, but that might be a good thing since out of the box performance could be excellent. Also it'd be interesting to see how high the frequencies are on the cheaper i7-8700.

However, I dread to think how hot they'll get with Intel's "glued together" heatspreaders. :p
 
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DragonQ said:
As this is an enthusiast forum, I expect everyone to be gaming at at least 1440p, not casual-tier 1080p, in which case there is approximately 0% improvement from choosing an i7-7700K. :D
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Yep everyone is enthusiast running X99 X299 with 6-10 core processors costing hundreds of pounds, graphic cards costing 600+£ and £100 1080p monitor from Bush.
 
chroniclard said:
Expect that even on an enthusiast forum the majority run at 1080p.
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It was a joke pal, enthusiast doesn't mean rich and throwing money at everything. It just means you enjoy it within your limits and values, one of which may be value for money or it may be absolute performance.
 
people joke about 1080 but on a 144hz panel and all ultra thats still highish performance demand.probably 1080ti card.

why would you have a 6/8 core machine high end card with a 1080 60hz panel :p
 
TheF34RChannel said:
Agreed! He had us guess over at the other forum and I said 3.7-3.9GHz base. Then again, who cares about base clocks. You decided to get one rad? I'll be picking it up myself.
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Only if there was a tiny chance of it being compatible with Z270 boards, if not I will wait a little while as I've only had the 7700k for less than 3 months and the Asus ROG Z270 Formula was an expensive board so don't want to replace it that fast.
 
Doobedoo said:
Any ideas on the price yet or has that already been mentioned?
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Afraid not...

Radeon85 said:
Only if there was a tiny chance of it being compatible with Z270 boards, if not I will wait a little while as I've only had the 7700k for less than 3 months and the Asus ROG Z270 Formula was an expensive board so don't want to replace it that fast.
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Or, sell it all now for a better price than what it'll yield you down the road? Man, I cannot wait to replace my i5 for the new i7! Hyperthreading and two more cores is great! As for boards, I'll be well happy with a ROG Hero board; good price and all the features I need, enable all-core turbo for 4.7GHz and lower the voltage best I can and done.
 
Do we know when next month these are likely to hit ? I'm building a desktop for my other half, and it seems logical to just give her my 5930k and I'll buy the 8700k
 
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