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Is it worth upgrading?

WhereHere1

WhereHere1

WhereHere1

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Ok so I know exactly what I want, an i7, 32GB,decent mb for oc’ing. I have around £1000-£1500.

I know something knew is always around the corner. But that ice lake is base on 10 not 14.

I know amd zen 2 is here but I’d probably rather just pay that extra to get a i7. Plus on a quick look is it me or are the amd motherboards like twice as expensive?
 
I think waiting for Icelake is generally a mistake, considering Intel's difficulties with getting 10 nm out of the gate, plus their admission that Cannonlake will have lower clock speeds than Kaby Lake. Unless they've got a flat-out redesign up their sleeves, I can't see Intel squeezing out enough more IPC of their current architecture to make up for clock speed drops. It's also been slated as "just around the corner" for over a year and almost certainly won't be out until 2019 (probably late 2019, IMO).

Ryzen 2 is literally 2 weeks away so it does generally make sense to wait for that, but with your budget you probably want Coffee Lake anyway. Note though that there's a distinct possibility that a Z370 board won't support the 8 core Coffee Lake refresh due in 2H 2018 (given Z170/Z270 don't support Coffee Lake at all).
 
WhereHere1 said:
Plus on a quick look is it me or are the amd motherboards like twice as expensive?
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Depends what you're comparing.


These are mainstream

AM4 is for Ryzen - £50-310 motherboards for £80-290 cpus

Z370 is for Coffeelake - £90-380 motherboards for £95-320 cpus


These are high end

TR4 is for Threadripper - £300-500 motherboards for £350-900 cpus

X299 is for Skylake X - £200-570 motherboards for £120-1600 cpus

The lowest priced cpus for these sockets are somewhat dubious for both since they are similar to if not sometimes worse (intel) than cpus from the cheaper range.
 
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I7 2700k, I know I'll see a huge difference going to the 8700k, but that ice lake might be very different to what's happening now.
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I already made the move to the 8700k from your cpu. And granted there is a small performance upgrade, but defo not huge. If I had to do it all over again I would wait for something that is a major upgrade not just a small one. My 2p worth.
 
Dvader said:
I already made the move to the 8700k from your cpu. And granted there is a small performance upgrade, but defo not huge. If I had to do it all over again I would wait for something that is a major upgrade not just a small one. My 2p worth.
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Same went from a Xeon 5650 that ran at 4Ghz for years and cost £50 to an 8700k that needed new ram and mobo etc, spent £670 and the difference is marginal. Was hoping modern processors felt faster at the equivalent clock speeds but not really.

Already had 12 threads running and the bottleneck continues to be the 1080. Bit pointless although overclocking it was fun for a day - made it to 5GHz but because it’s so pointless I decided to leave it stock and enjoy the cooler CPU temps.

Expensive lesson for me.
 
Dvader said:
I already made the move to the 8700k from your cpu. And granted there is a small performance upgrade, but defo not huge. If I had to do it all over again I would wait for something that is a major upgrade not just a small one. My 2p worth.
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You'd be waiting for a long time lol....
 
You’re not wrong. I bought my i7-920 in 2009 I think and immediately clocked to 4Ghz 24/7 where it stayed for about 5 years. Upgrade to Xeon was more about threads.

Shouldn’t really complain I suppose, no need to upgrade. I would like to see AMD threaten again. The old K6 chips were pretty badass, but that was a while ago now. Fingers crossed for more of that with Ryzen I guess.
 
Gonna jump to Zen+ from 3770, I'm after more cores and RAM for my studies and performance for games as well.

If 7nm is as good as it sounds, then I can simply change out the CPU.
 
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