i9 Kabylake or wait for i9 coffeelake?

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I dont want to throw away 1000-2000 dollars if coffee lake is just gonna wipe out kaby lake i9s in a few months. Should i wait? Or am i misinformed about something here? Id mostly be gaming at night....mostly.
 
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if you mean coffee lake i7 coming out in a few months (rumored august) beating out kaby lake i7s out now (there are no i9 kaby lakes out to date)...then yes i7 6C/12T coffee lake CPUs are supposed to be replacing i7 4C/8T kaby lake CPUs in the main stream very soon. AMD has Intel scared and pushing up product dates, having knee jerk reactions in the HEDT space (mobo makers didn't even know about there 18 core parts when Intel announced them). I am in the "thinking about my next build" stage now. AMD Thread ripper may well get my purchase. The only reasons I skipped Ryzen was 3200mhz ram speeds were restricted to 2 dimms and thus 32GB of ram and they didn't offer enough PCIe connectivity for my usage. Things Threadripper will solve...
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if you mean coffee lake i7 coming out in a few months (rumored august) beating out kaby lake i7s out now (there are no i9 kaby lakes out to date)...then yes i7 6C/12T coffee lake CPUs are supposed to be replacing i7 4C/8T kaby lake CPUs in the main stream very soon. AMD has Intel scared and pushing up product dates, having knee jerk reactions in the HEDT space (mobo makers didn't even know about there 18 core parts when Intel announced them). I am in the "thinking about my next build" stage now. AMD Thread ripper may well get my purchase. The only reasons I skipped Ryzen was 3200mhz ram speeds were restricted to 2 dimms and thus 32GB of ram and they didn't offer enough PCIe connectivity for my usage. Things Threadripper will solve. Sadly even Intels new Skylake X only solves both of these issues if I get a 1000 dollar CPU with 44 PCIe lanes. The ram issue is solved by all of skylake X CPUs though.
 
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waiting... is the only way to be sure.

But then you'll always be waiting, after coffee comes cannon and then ice?

The multithreaded lower cost ryzens will put pressure on threading, especially as games seem to like that now. Coffee 'should' be socket 1151? but importantly not 2066, and therefore a cheaper mobo, with the i7's having 6c12t.

I'm on a 3570k, and am waiting although i really have the urge to build, and build now.
 
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why not go for AMD and save yourself some few 100 bucks??.i9 is too costly ,get a ryzen as it offers about 70% performance of the i9 for 60% less price or you could wait for AMD Threadripper which will crush i9 in performance for almost less or same price tag.
 
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I feel you on the urge to build. Gaming at 4K my CPU is actually fine but, but, but...I haven't got to do a new build for myself in 4 years :( Gaming isn't all I do but it is usually the second biggest motivator for my CPU/platform upgrades besides my general urge to build new PC which is number one!

 
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I've nearly stopped gaming, don't know why I need a better machine, but 5 years... it's too long. I've rebuilt a server in between times, but it's not the same.
 
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