They're amazing. I have one in my laptop. I just want the price to go down a bit more before I upgrade again :(
On Sep 16, 2017 11:28 AM, "Joe Novak" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > > >
