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Official OcUK Skylake-X & Kabylake-X Review thread

Fire_fly said:
I'm kind of torn over x299, I want to upgrade from my i5 as the slow downs in BF1 when anything happens in the background are getting beyond tiresome.

I don't think there will be much longevity in Z270 quad cores and although Ryzen has improved a lot it still has a few issues that make he hesitant to go down that route. I was looking at getting a 7820x but, rather like Kaby lake, I have no enthusiasm for it, and the motherboards prices don't help either.

I can't be the only one feeling like this, or am I just missing something?
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Of course the cheapest option is a used 3770K. Although from some of the benches from Computerbase when they looked at BF1 multi-player, even the 4C/8T 7700K is running at near 100% so you'd probably be advised to run with a background task kill script. On the other hand, a used i7-3770K can cost almost as much as a new Ryzen 7 1600.
 
zornyan said:
you sound like the kind if person that coffeelake is aimed at.

z270 motherboards *should* work since it's still the same socket, if not z370 which will be cheaper than x299, and the 8700k is a 6/12 co, so 3x the threads of your i5.

the new i5 could be a bargain though, if it's a 6 core with no hyper threading that technically should put it ahead of today's i7.

information should hopefully be out within the month if they're aiming for an August launch.
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I'm not sure what to make of coffeelake, isn't there a rumour of a nasty surprise floating around? Also I want the extra threads of the i7, I was advised that 4 threads was enough when buying the i5, but I wish I spent the extra £60 on the i7 as I don't think I would be having the problems with Bf1 right now.

I'm also not against Ryzen, I just want to make sure that the memory compatibility minefield has been cleared, and I can reliably get modules that will do 3200MHz without costing silly money.

KompuKare said:
Of course the cheapest option is a used 3770K. Although from some of the benches from Computerbase when they looked at BF1 multi-player, even the 4C/8T 7700K is running at near 100% so you'd probably be advised to run with a background task kill script. On the other hand, a used i7-3770K can cost almost as much as a new Ryzen 7 1600.
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I have looked at a getting 3770K, but yeah the price kind of put me off, I don't want to go spending £170 on a 5 year old CPU to go in a 5 year old Motherboard only to have it fail 2 months later.
 
Intel are gonna be charging £220+ for a 6/6 thread CPU which is stupid when AMD have 12 threads out for less. That 6 core will have comparative performance to an i7 8 thread so what's the point. As usual Intel giving you less for more go AMD.
 
Fire_fly said:
I have looked at a getting 3770K, but yeah the price kind of put me off, I don't want to go spending £170 on a 5 year old CPU to go in a 5 year old Motherboard only to have it fail 2 months later.
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One secondhand place on the highstreet offer warranties of up to two years as standard.
 
TheF34RChannel said:
If true (no HT), Intel may as well have slit their own wrists... (and infuriate me beyond anything you'd want to know).



Truly no offense mate: have you then? And, that's what I'd expect a reseller to say of course.
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his a a extreme Overclocker course he will love CL another intel chip to Overclock... & he thinks the i9 are amazing too (perf wise they are)
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
One secondhand place on the highstreet offer warranties of up to two years as standard.
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Cheers will check them out

KompuKare said:
I think Fire_fly mean that the 5 year old motherboard might fail as CPUs seldom fail. That place would buy the i5-3570 too making the swap a lot cheaper.
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It's a bit of both to be honest, you can't grantee that the CPU has not been running at 1.4+ volts for the last 5 years. Also I have no idea about how long motherboards usually last, such is the slow pace of advancement I've never kept a motherboard for this long.
 
Fire_fly said:
Cheers will check them out



It's a bit of both to be honest, you can't grantee that the CPU has not been running at 1.4+ volts for the last 5 years. Also I have no idea about how long motherboards usually last, such is the slow pace of advancement I've never kept a motherboard for this long.
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it's a case of it could last 10 years if it had an easy life or 2 years if it had 1.4v shoved through it with the boards vrms being on the limit for it's whole life.

but as long as you have some form of guarantee/ warranty you should be ok
 
However, the frequency isn't my greatest concern right now. Using just 1.2 volts, which is all I needed for a stable 4.6GHz overclock on all cores, the system consumption went from the 259 watts just seen to an insane 402 watts! That might not even be the worst part, the deal breaker is probably the operating temps. Chilling the 7900X was Corsair's H100i v2 and despite being a premium 240mm AIO liquid cooler, temps skyrocketed as the CPU was place under load, reaching 90 degrees instantly before climbing further towards 100 degrees. Unless you have an amazing cooler, I'm not sure overclocking is going to be worth it.
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GTA767 said:
my 7900x is shipping hehe

so hope asus will release rampage 6 extreme soon
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where from? price gouging going on everywhere I'm looking atm :(

rampage is delayed apparently due to them reworking the heatsinks, apparently the first revision had issue due to the heatsinks having bad contact and the vrms were hitting 100c+
 
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