[AFMUG] OT: PC upgrade

[George Skorup]

So I'm still running on my "vintage" i7-920/X58 system at home. I don't 
do a lot of gaming. Maybe BF4 once in a while. Got 6GB of RAM and a WD 
SATA3 spinner in it and it's fine for the most part.

Upgrade right now to an i7-7700/Z270 (which is twice as fast as the 
920/X58 and uses 1/3 of the power), with 16GB of RAM and an NVMe SSD on 
top should fly. Or wait for the i7/i9 X-series and X299 chipset to 
mature a bit more. Kinda leaning towards waiting a bit since the the 
X-series has much better multi-core performance. 7700 vs 7800X would be 
something like 15-20% better, just not sure it's worth it. All of the 
extra PCIe lanes w/ the X-series is kinda meh to me since I don't plan 
on running more than one PCIe GPU. Plus the 7800X is back up to using 
the power of the 920. But quad-core 7700 vs 6-core 7800X w/ better 
multi-core and upgrade to i9 later.

I'm torn.