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What are you 3770k owners upgrading to?

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As title really. Those of us on the older gen i7s are in an interesting position where the 8700k offers a significant single and multi thread upgrade, but with zen+ looking like it'll also offer a boost on single threaded performance (Ryzen 1 wasn't much of an upgrade on single threaded/gaming once overclocks were taken into account).

So are you guys nursing your older i7 chips along until Zen2 or have you all already jumped on the 8700k?
 
andy_mk3 said:
As a 2600k user, I have pretty much decided to wait until Zen2 at least to be honest. Zen/+ is a great improvement in multi threaded loads, but a couple of the games I run rely heavily on single thread performance. The 8700k is nice but its a very expensive upgrade for not what I would call a dramatic upgrade.
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This is where I'm at. I'm primarily a gamer, but the multithreaded performance is of interest as well. 8700k is expensive and the motherboard chipset is short on IO. That makes me want to go AMD, but then I'm paying mostly for multithreaded performance that is of secondary importance. Feels like better value though.

DDR4 is still crazy expensive, so I am in no rush anyway. Having an upcoming wedding doesn't help either.
 
Mine is running at 4.5Ghz, and mostly I'm just getting the itch. There are a few games limited by single core performance (Grim Dawn) that bug me, but in general I'm gpu limited. My system is reasonably balanced with a 980ti, 16GB RAM, SSD etc alongside the 3770k.

I would also like some of the newer chipset features (M.2 drives etc) that my board is lacking, so that's another reason. I quite like the idea of having lots of pcie storage so AMD's additional lanes appeal to me.

I have a wedding coming up so I'm skint until next year anyway, by which point Zen2 and whatever Intel have planned will be arriving. Hopefully another year of AMD keeping Intel on their toes.
 
NinjaCool said:
No doubt there will be a nice jump for the Ryzen 2 but I think the main target for the upper ranged Sandy/Ivy Bridge gamers will be in 2019.
We get Ryzen 7nm vs Intel’s Ice Lake on 10nm and hopefully cheaper GFX cards and DDR4 ram prices :D
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We can only dream :p
 
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