Agreed. While a 4770K to a 7700K would be more than 15% (a quick Google shows 25-30%), the *perceptible* difference would be negligible. The biggest thing driving upgrades now, IMO, really is the platform--USB 3.0/3.1, NVMe, Optane support, etc.
I purchased an X99 board over a year ago. I purchased the i7-6950X the week it came out. Both are still sitting on the bench, along with 64GB of memory, a new Pascal GPU, a 960 Pro NVMe disk, and a Seasonic Titanium PSU. The biggest reason is because I'm exceptionally lazy, but I have to think that another part is simply because my ancient Sandy Bridge-E system (3930K) is still more than sufficient for most of what I do. It's a new era in computing. I think this really started when we first had quality dual-core processors like the Core 2--all of a sudden CPU performance wasn't the bottleneck like it used to be. Obviously the C2 is slow now, but anything Sandy Bridge or newer (> 6 years old!) is really still fine for most tasks. I am looking forward to the new Coffee Lake CPUs expected late this summer though, but only because I have a specific purpose where I need the Intel integrated GPU and could use more than 4 cores. -----Original Message----- From: Hardware [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Winterlight Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2017 11:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [H] Thoughts the the next processor upgrade With modern processors I don't even notice a difference unless a new CPU gives me at least 50 percent increase in power. I do video encoding and, I wouldn't consider a upgrade of my CPU unless I could double my processor power. That said, I have been running a six core since 2013 but come Oct the new X9 with up to 18 cores + 18 Hyperthreading designed for the consumer market will be for sale. ...at a cost of 2K for the 18 core. ...target market is gamer and enthusiast. Frankly, it is just not worth the time and effort required to build and set up a whole new workstation... unless something went south and, I had to do it. At 10:29 AM 6/17/2017, you wrote: >I've started looking at the next upgrade for my main box. Currently >I have an i7-4770K with 24GB on an Asus Maximus VII Hero. I already >know that the next upgrade will probably require a new set of memory. >However, I've been looking at CPUs and have to say that I'm >underwhelmed when comparing my current system versus the new >processors. It seems that for an investment of over 500 bucks, the >most I can hope for is *maybe* a 15% increase in processing >power. Right now I don't do any high end gaming, the most rigorous >stuff I do is running a lot of soft synths in Cakewalk >Sonar. What's everybody's take on picking a new processor? > >Thanks...Steve >
