Next logical upgrade step from a [email protected]?

[X-Mikuru_Beam-X]

Ok so I'm thinking about upgrading my Mobo, CPU and ram either end of this year or early next year and was wondering if Skylake-E or Coffelake would be a nice boost in performance for me?

I'm looking to spend about a £1-1.2K when the right platform appears... and will probably want to put the OS on an M.2 SSD and keep my Sata SSD's for data.

I am still finding my [email protected] to be a solid performer in games, but would like to see a boost to minimum framerates in Battlefield 1, if thats even possible with the way things stand with lack of CPU's advances at present I dont know...

So what do you guys think, is it nearly time to upgrade or would I be better of saving for Cannonlake next year? I dont want to upgrade for the sake of it if Im not likely to see a solid boost, the new build has to last me a long time!

 

[X-Mikuru_Beam-X]

I would personally hold of to see what Cannonlake and Ryzen+ bring in honesty

I have a feeling you are right as well! I wont be buying an AMD platform, but it may make Intels offerings more interesting

 

[X-Mikuru_Beam-X]

I'm going to upgrade from a 4770l @ 4.8ghz to Ryzen in June as my workload highly favours multithreading and I want some new features (m.2 and usb 3.1).

Another think that is atrracting me to the platform is if Ryzen 2 is much better, I can just drop in a new CPU without having to change anything else - no new mobo.

Yes I saw Ryzen is awesome in multithreaded desktop Apps, but I only game, well one game LOL... and some digital art with massive file sizes... so I dont think AMD's platform is for me

 

[X-Mikuru_Beam-X]

Save yourself the cash guys and hold off for now. Upgrading from any i7 unless it's pre sandy bridge would be a lot of money for little benefit. There's no way I would ditch a 4.8GHz 4770k for Ryzen.

M.2 would be nice but why not raid a couple of SSD's in stripe if you want a bit of extra read/write performance.

OK, im going to follow ya'll advice and wait for Cannonlake

 

[X-Mikuru_Beam-X]

Lol boring advice I know, but for the price, especially with the current cost of DDR4 it'll cost you a fair bit for no noticeable difference. Your 4770k is good for a few years yet I'm still rocking a 3770k with no plans to upgrade until I absolutely need to.

It's quite exciting advice really, because it means my savings are safe till next year lol!

It's amazing just how well these chips of ours still run, I've had incredible value for money out of my Haswell rig and it's still performing as well as it ever has.

 

[X-Mikuru_Beam-X]

Lol treat yourself to a holiday instead man and save the rest

You mistake me for someone who goes outside LOL

I do fancy a posh new case however...

 

[X-Mikuru_Beam-X]

2018 I think

 

[X-Mikuru_Beam-X]

Any reason it's a straight no with Ryzen at all?

As far as I can see, it offers little to nothing in the way of gaming improvment over my trusty 4770K. Also it just doesnt feel like the right long-term investment for me looking to the future...

The 6 cores clocked on x299 would be next. That's unless you want to gamble with zen+ and buy into the platform now. The 1600x out soon will make x299 look very expensive I think.

Not so worried about the price of the platform, more the longevity! Does anyone know if Battlefield 1 would use more than 4 cores on a Skylake-E system? or is it outright speed as find in the high-end mainstream parts it favours?