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Who's buying a 6 core Coffee Lake CPU? (Poll Inside)

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You buying a 6 core Coffee Lake?

  • Yeah, I shall grab me that 6 core 12 thread i7 chip.

    Votes: 62 32.1%

  • Yeah, I shall grab me that 6 core 6 thread i5 chip.

    Votes: 11 5.7%

  • No thanks Intel. I'm not interested.

    Votes: 120 62.2%
  • Total voters
    193
Coffee Lake cannot possibly be a bad gaming CPU since it is KL+ 2 more cores clocked pretty high. It will be a great CPU, it just depends whether one is ready to shell out cash for a new board + a new CPU if he already has a high clocked 8T Haswell+.
 
TheF34RChannel said:
Precisely what I am thinking. The i5-8600K will be a gaming beast, however for those games that benefit from HT the i7-8700K will be a monster. I want the monster.
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Why you would consider the i5 is mindboggling to me...
We're on the same page. Sure the i5 will work. But why in god's name would you only want 6 threads of power?

Really, just get an i7. As a current i7 user, you can't go wrong. You don't wonder what if, you get great performance, it's just amazing. A lot of people upgraded from i5s to Ryzen 7s and were blown away. I think they just needed i7s in many cases to alleviate some background tasks.

The i7 is the best line from intel. I don't see a point in penny pinching for an i5/i3. It's WAY too close in price to an i7.

Imagine if a GTX 1080ti/1080/1070 were this close in price.....

The incremental cost of getting in i7... I seriously just don't get most people.

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I'd more likely recommend a Ryzen CPU than an i5. If you're going to penny pinch, penny pinch. Otherwise, just get the i7.
 
Madpacket said:
The real overall upgrade to the 4790K/7700K has been out for months already, it's the less expensive upgradable 8 core Ryzen 1700. Sorry Intel, maybe next generation.
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Easy for you to say when you don't have to sell an i7 CPU to buy a Ryzen 7 CPU.
You can say that on the sidelines as a person with no actual skin in the game just throwing out random comments.
For actual i7 users, your comments are hilariuos. I have never once considered Ryzen 7 to be a viable upgrade for my CPU.
I'm actually waiting for Zen 2 before I see if AMD is up to par for my use.
AMD is great for a budget option don't get me wrong. If you need raw price/perf AMD wins. But when you just want power? That's the reason I am going intel, and that's the reason I'm switching to Nvidia.
 
tential said:
Why you would consider the i5 is mindboggling to me...
We're on the same page. Sure the i5 will work. But why in god's name would you only want 6 threads of power?

Really, just get an i7. As a current i7 user, you can't go wrong. You don't wonder what if, you get great performance, it's just amazing. A lot of people upgraded from i5s to Ryzen 7s and were blown away. I think they just needed i7s in many cases to alleviate some background tasks.

The i7 is the best line from intel. I don't see a point in penny pinching for an i5/i3. It's WAY too close in price to an i7.

Imagine if a GTX 1080ti/1080/1070 were this close in price.....

The incremental cost of getting in i7... I seriously just don't get most people.

Edit:
I'd more likely recommend a Ryzen CPU than an i5. If you're going to penny pinch, penny pinch. Otherwise, just get the i7.
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On average the i7 will likely only outperform the the i5 by 10%, and cost 30%+ more.

It's pretty simple choice for bang/buck buyers.
 
PeterScott said:
On average the i7 will likely only outperform the the i5 by 10%, and cost 30%+ more.

It's pretty simple choice for bang/buck buyers.
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I dont' disagree about the bang/buck on a pure benchmark basis.
But that's just based on how you sliced and massaged the data.

I could say that the i7 will outperform the i5 by 44% in HT threaded games but only cost 30% more, and that I value having access to that large performance difference in cases where HT is utilized....
 
tential said:
I dont' disagree about the bang/buck on a pure benchmark basis.
But that's just based on how you sliced and massaged the data.

I could say that the i7 will outperform the i5 by 44% in HT threaded games but only cost 30% more, and that I value having access to that large performance difference in cases where HT is utilized....
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You could say that, but you would be lying.

I have never seen even a single case where HT gives a 44% boost.

Intel HT is pretty weak, 20% boost from HT is considered a good result.
 
tential said:
I dont' disagree about the bang/buck on a pure benchmark basis.
But that's just based on how you sliced and massaged the data.

I could say that the i7 will outperform the i5 by 44% in HT threaded games but only cost 30% more, and that I value having access to that large performance difference in cases where HT is utilized....
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44%??? As much as I like HT and extra threads, this sounds optimistic to the point of hyperbole. I don't believe it can be substantiated, the uplift from 6 HT logical cores will probably be ~30% best case, and the best cases aren't normally games.
 
@tential shares my mode of thinking: Core i5-?600K and i7-?700K absolute difference in price is small: it is not like i7-6900K and 6950X. CPUs for gaming are infrequent updates, so spend more now to avoid upgrading sooner. Also, the price difference amortized over 5 years: it becomes pretty small.

My rule of thumb of Hyper-threading is in good-case (not gaming), 125% of no Hyper-threading.
 
Bouowmx said:
Core i5-?600K and i7-?700K absolute difference in price is small: it is not like i7-6900K and 6950X. CPUs for gaming are infrequent updates, so spend more now to avoid upgrading sooner.
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Tell that to people who bought 7700K over 7600K only to realize 6 months later that they paid $330+ for what was to become a $200 CPU. Poof! Making TCO calculations without proper context is a poor tactic at best.

And talking about context, we just heard Ice Lake increases core count yet again.
 
coercitiv said:
Tell that to people who bought 7700K over 7600K only to realize 6 months later that they paid $330+ for what was to become a $200 CPU. Poof! Making TCO calculations without proper context is a poor tactic at best.

And talking about context, we just heard Ice Lake increases core count yet again.
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I see that I picked a bad time frame to make an analysis. Would have made more sense in Intel 2nd-to-6th generation processors.
 
Should point out that Z390 isn't slated to come out until 2H 2018. So if you think about it, Z390 is irrelevant to any Coffee Lake purchasing discussion.
 
jpiniero said:
Should point out that Z390 isn't slated to come out until 2H 2018. So if you think about it, Z390 is irrelevant to any Coffee Lake purchasing discussion.
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Yeah, not wanting to wait for another year and already skipping Ice Lake in favor of Tiger Lake, whilst enjoying this news, I'm good with getting Z370 in a few weeks.
 
I'm going to wait. I really want one but a couple of things are stopping me.
1. Banner Lord is not released and I don't know if it will choke my i5-2500k
2. ddr4 prices
3. I'd really like 8 cores. If Intel gets an 8 core Coffee/Ice lake, or AMD gets a higher clocking/better IPC Ryzen out.
4. Price/Performance. I like a good deal. If its not a good bit faster than a 6800k OC then price will have to be very good for me not to look at a used system.
5. Wife.....

1 is most important, and for 5, what she doesn't know....
 
Arachnotronic said:
At some point you need to pull the trigger. There's always something better coming from the manufacturers in this space.
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My thoughts exactly. I would only refrain from buying something when I know something new is coming within a few weeks/months, and Ice Lake does not fit that bill. I need what Coffee Lake offers now, and besides, Tiger Lake will be the improved family which suits me fine.
 
frozentundra123456 said:
Did you mean 8700K? Because the 8600k will be very unlikely to be more expensive than the 8 core ryzen chips, and most likely will be a bit cheaper. And again, it depends on workload. It will be faster in many applications as well, namely those that utilize six cores or less.
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Oops I did mean the 8700K. Thanks for the correction.
 
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