kaby lake or zen ???

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I found someone to buy my i7-4790k rig for a good price and i have more than enough to buy a full kaby lake rig considering the cpu will cost 350$ and mobo 150$ lastly ram 120$
but would i regret it if zen came out later than kaby lake with half the price ?? or they will be priced close or is zen going to be too late for me ? i mean iam pretty sure kaby lake is coming out b4 zen ... should i wait for zen ? or could amd's comparing be fake for the 8 core skylake ??? and kaby lake is going to be better ?? i need help because i need to make a choice
 
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Short story: you won't be gaining much from ditching your i7-4790 for a Kaby Lake (or possibly Zen) CPU/platform and it makes little sense to worry about upgrading either way at this point unless you absolutely must have some of the new CPU/platform features right now.

In my case, I may end up keeping my i5 for another 2-3 years as I have no use for any of the updated IOs and no interest in spending $500+ on a new PC that is only 20-30% faster..
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Zen won't be half the price of intel. Surely AMD is cherry picking to show their best. The test was Zen vs the broadwell-E 6900 , not skylake or kabylake. Kabylake, then Zen, then Cannonlake. AMD has a very narrow window to milk prices for what they can get and then falling more and more generations behind like Bulldozer (2011-2016) vs sandybridge to now.
 
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CPU is not what's driving the purchase of new systems, or isn't what should be. The motherboard, and any new connectivity a new platform offers is what should be the primary motivator. That's in general, now if the PC is generating revenue for you where getting workloads done faster makes sense, well then that's a different story. Just my 2 cents.
 
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The best way to prevent buyer's remorse is to wait until all the facts are available. Multiple relevant benchmarks (doesn't do much good if a cpu performs well at video encoding, poorly at gaming and you want to game with it) and actual prices since that's what you'll be paying for motherboards needed and the cpu's themselves are all made known. Only then can an accurate informed decision be made.
 
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The CPU used to be what drove PC sales back when performance roughly doubled every 18 months or so. Now that CPU performance scaling has been at a standstill, there is honestly no reason for most people to upgrade their PCs whatsoever.

While new chipsets may have updated connectivity, few people genuinely need it: GPUs are still happy enough on PCIe 2.0 x16, SSDs are still plenty fast enough for everyday use on SATA3 (6Gbps), USB 3.0 is fast enough to handle most people's everyday data transfers (most people don't do any on a regular basis), etc. It is only enthusiasts and high-end people who care about those things.

That's why the high-end PC sales are still increasing while the rest of the PC market is crashing. People/companies who don't need/care about the latest features aren't upgrading their PCs as often since whatever they have is still good enough..I don't expect to have any reason to upgrade my i5-3470 any time soon if significantly faster CPUs fail to become available under $200. Generally, I ignore upgrades that yield less than double the net performance.
 
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Short story: you won't be gaining much from ditching your i7-4790 for a Kaby Lake (or possibly Zen) CPU/platform and it makes little sense to worry about upgrading either way at this point unless you absolutely must have some of the new CPU/platform features right now.

In my case, I may end up keeping my i5 for another 2-3 years as I have no use for any of the updated IOs and no interest in spending $500+ on a new PC that is only 20-30% faster..
 
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