is the i7 8700 still going to be a decent gaming CPU for the next few years

[sunshinewelly]

I have bought an alienwear R7 from Dell at a very good price. comes with a i7 8700 and a GTX1080 and was less than £1000

i currently have a i5 3750k cpu from 2013 and a gtx 1080.

I was going to simply upgrade my CPU but everything in my pc is old apart from the gtx 1080.

when i saw the deals on the alienwear i thought i may as well buy a new system and sell the old one or at least the GTX1080 which is less than a year old.

that would then make the new system a bargain.

just want to know that the i8700 is still going to cut it in a couple of years time

my existing CPU has been great but is now struggling

 

[sunshinewelly]

i game at 4k or 1440p depending on the game

i have found that games such as Assassins creed are now being pegged back by my CPU

 

[sunshinewelly]

I game on my TV and just change the resolution depending on how taxing the game is

here are the dell specs

specs of the dell

Alienware Aurora R7

Killer 1535 802.11ac 2x2 WiFi and Bluetooth 4.1

Thermal Heatsink Fan for Air Cooling CPU, 65W

8GB GDDR5X NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1080 Graphics

32GB M.2 PCIe Optane Memory

16GB (2x8GB) 2666 MHz DDR4 UDIMM Non-ECC Memory

Windows 10 Home (64bit)

Processor: Intel® Core™ i7-8700 (6 Core, 3.2 GHz, 12MB Cache, 65W)

2 TB 3.5inch SATA Hard Drive (7200RPM)


seems ok for the price. i can then sell my existing system or GPU and get some money back etc

alternatively i need to buy a new CPU, a new MB, some new RAM (i want 16gb at least and only have 8 now) and a new PSU and probably a new case

 

[sunshinewelly]

cheers for the tip on the display - i did not realise it made a difference. assassins creed has a resolution slider. so is it better to use that and keep the game at 4k native

 

[sunshinewelly]

I do not have a minimum budget - my old pc is getting on a bit now and i could do with a replacement of everything really.

dell have also agreed they will knock 10% off the price so it comes in at £880.

I have looked online and even if buying the parts dont seem to be able to beat that price.

 

[sunshinewelly]

cheers for the link - thats very interesting. I am going to need a case and probably a new PSU.

the upside of the dell is that it will come prebuilt and i should be able to sell my old system for around £400 or even just the GTX1080 for £250

the downside of the dell is that if i come to upgrade my GPU then i am limited to the basic back blower models as the alienwear case is small.