and I was disappointed by Skylake...
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Kaby Lake review at Bit-tech!
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and I was disappointed by Skylake...
At least Skylake offered some level of performance over Haswell at the same clocks on top of things which did make a big difference ( DDR4 for example ).
Kaby Lake is literally a waste of time, clock for clock identical to Skylake performance if not worse. Stock clocks are meaningless when people only buy the K processors to overclock anyway. i3K series is also a waste of space.
This whole processor release is by far the most disappointing I have seen since perhaps the failure that was Prescott over Northwood, now that WAS a huge leap back. The whole release is just an insult to everyone and a waste of energy.
The low end Apollo Lake chips are interesting though with 4K60 HDMI output in a cheap package NUC
https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/80644/Apollo-Lake#@All
Kaby Lake is literally a waste of time, clock for clock identical to Skylake performance if not worse. Stock clocks are meaningless when people only buy the K processors to overclock anyway. i3K series is also a waste of space.
This whole processor release is by far the most disappointing I have seen since perhaps the failure that was Prescott over Northwood, now that WAS a huge leap back. The whole release is just an insult to everyone and a waste of energy.
The low end Apollo Lake chips are interesting though with 4K60 HDMI output in a cheap package NUC
https://ark.intel.com/products/codename/80644/Apollo-Lake#@All
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It's only a failure when compared to skylake, but it's still a good processor for those who want to overclock and upgrade from older generations.
A 5Ghz 7700k will be the best mainstream processor for quite sometime, unless your workloads demand more than 4 cores.
A 5Ghz 7700k will be the best mainstream processor for quite sometime, unless your workloads demand more than 4 cores.
Lol I meant 5
as i have posted before, reviews will tell you only part of the story. one of these chips+nvme+ddr4 will be a big upgrade from the sandy bridge rigs. assuming you use windows 10.
More like any i5 from Sandy really, I'd like to upgrade to a 3770k but prices for used are still to high.
That would be good but I'm sure those chips will cost at least £400.
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heh, I literally stated these sound like fed to PR lines when I posted. I honestly hadn't been bothered to read other reviews as it's basically relaunching the same chip, absolutely nothing to learn.
Also shows to me how poor Anandtech has become of late, sold off to a company that owns other really bad review sites. Becoming more of a mouth piece.
The overclocking review was useful and there is a more detailed one due out soon I believe.
I only ever skip to the overclocking section in most articles due to all the key highlights usually leaked well in advance.
It's only disappointing when you want to upgrade an i7 and have been holding off for a worthwhile jump in performance that never comes. That and the price increase. Z270 and Kabylake are both overpriced and underwhelming. Neither have delivered what they promised and don't even offer reasonable value, it just more of the same x5.
Yeah the decent Z270 prices are taking the ****, but what can you do.
Stick with you you have, buy a lower end board, buy a z170 board, go X99 or wait for Zen.
That's 5 things you can do.
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Well that was expected.
IPC near identical and maybe 200-300GHz OC advantage.
Saying the PR machine is fully engaged, and it needs to be with those prices.
IPC near identical and maybe 200-300GHz OC advantage.
Saying the PR machine is fully engaged, and it needs to be with those prices.
blah, i really want to upgrade my 3570k@ 4.6 to 7700k. IF i could OC the 7700k to 5ghz would that be even decent upgrade, if the only thing i do is game? Games like BF1, witcher 3 most of the time :S im so close to pull the trigger. Also got a 1080 & X34A.
I appreciate you have the itch, but if you scratch you might find yourself disappointed with the result. Given what you'd need to outlay, the performance benefits you would reap simply wouldn't be of particularly good value. As asked, what FPS are you getting at present?