I think coffee lake or gen 8 would be better then the 7700k.. it seems like the i7-8700 is going to be price competive with the 7700k with more cores. I'm fairly sure it's suppose to drop very very soon.
Shitty source but I found it quick on my phone. http://www.trustedreviews.com/news/intel-8th-gen-core-specs-technology-explained-2952599 You can't go wrong with the nvme. It's a huge boost.. from 100megabytes read write to gigabytes per second read write. The Samsung nvme are top of their class.. I hope the price drops again this fall because I want one. They seem to do a yearly refresh and sales seem to come up around black Friday. I did a refresh this year with a Ryzen 1700. I'm not disappointed. I hope AMD keeps pushing hard into the market again. If next year's refresh breaks into higher clock speeds I'll be very happy. I've got mine running at 3.7ghz on air easily. Joe On Sep 16, 2017 10:03 AM, "George Skorup" <[email protected]> wrote: 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.
