If you aren't going to want to do CPU streaming I'm not sure that 8/16 does much more for you than 6/12 (core/thread wise).
I'm personally not exactly keen on Coffee Lake because... I7's in general sell for $349'ish as a US example and a 7800x on average is $40 more... So I don't see CL being lover than previous 4c/8t I7's and Intel will still want to sell those.... The only place to save money with CL is possibly on a motherboard or the fact you can just run dual channel ram. I already have a quad kit so that isn't a factor for me...
x99 of any flavor to me isn't that interesting because some things like the chipset interconnect were upgraded with x299...
It also depends on what you are running for storage... For someone that is running high speed M.2's with x299 you can in fact just run them on adapter and use the extra cpu lanes (if you are only running a single gpu you can still run 2 M.2 drives off the cpu lanes and avoid the chipset lanes). Or at least the x299 motherboard I have is setup to run in a x16, x8, x4 setup on the 28 lane cpu's so I just run my M.2 and U.2 via adapters.
If you are running slower storage... well then CL is probably a better and likely slightly cheaper option when it becomes available.
I would definitely snag a 5820k or 6800k before jumping to the 78xx series. You can google gaming benches with the whole lineup and there really isnt an improvement to justify the big cost to get a new mobo and cpu. With the money left over you could try to snag a vega or better ram.
gonna get ripoff by coffee lake in a few days if you chose either one of those cpus. if you want cheap many cores and do multitasking with only ~10% sacrifice on single threads get ryzen or threadripper. Otherwise it is no brainier to wait a few days, to get coffeelake with better performance for same if not cheaper price...
gonna get ripoff by coffee lake in a few days if you chose either one of those cpus. if you want cheap many cores and do multitasking with only ~10% sacrifice on single threads get ryzen or threadripper. Otherwise it is no brainier to wait a few days, to get coffeelake with better performance for same if not cheaper price...
I was unaware that they were going to offer a big boost. I thought the 8700k was gimped compared to previous gen offerings, and the IPC is rumored to not be that high. But it wouldn't hurt to wait and then see if prices drop.
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