With coffee lake comming out and ryzen the core count is going up. I purchased my 7700k about a year ago, and im worried that it wont last me 3-5 years. Should i sell it now while i can still get decent value and switch to ryzen or get coffee lake. I didn't want to have to do that and deal with switching all my parts, but im worried 4 core 8 thread wont be good enough for gaming in the next few years. Im thinking the 8 threads will push the 7700k for the next few years but im not sure.
will the 7700k still be good for gaming for the next few years.
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You should be fine, I'm still using a i7-4770K from 2013 with no issues and most games/oculus doesn't even push the CPU above 60%.
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Yeah you should be fine till 2020. Sadly you might face some bottlenecking due to threads,some i7 users already do but the number is very small, unlike i5 users which are many now. Games like The Witcher 3, The Division, Rise of the Tomb Raider use 8+ threads and others like BF1, Watch Dogs 2, Ghost Recon Wildlands, GTA V can use near 16+ threads. The number of games that use a lot of threads will only grow. On the up side there are a lot of 4C/8T Intel users out there so devs won't forget them. Besides worst case scenrio if it does start to bottleneck, turn up more of the grpahics settings and get a btter picture with less stress on the CPU. Until a bottleneck makes 60FPS (or what ever your accepted frame rate is), you'll be fine. Plus even though many of games use a lot of threads, for now, being parallel the more cores/threads you have the less work each one does (DX12 at least 11 less so). You CPU might work harder but it should be good enough a few more years. If you question a CPU bottleneck or what your CPU can do in games...
1. Turn down all in game settings to low and the lowest resolution.
2. Run game with fraps or frame counter...
3. what ever that number your CPU can achieve it always can (maybe more but not to much) at any resolution and game setting as long as your GPU is strong enough.
More times then not it is your GPU that is the limiting factor for <90hz/fps gaming. Jump tp 120/144 then your cpu is A weak point too, always for the higher refresh rates.
1. Turn down all in game settings to low and the lowest resolution.
2. Run game with fraps or frame counter...
3. what ever that number your CPU can achieve it always can (maybe more but not to much) at any resolution and game setting as long as your GPU is strong enough.
More times then not it is your GPU that is the limiting factor for <90hz/fps gaming. Jump tp 120/144 then your cpu is A weak point too, always for the higher refresh rates.
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A new i7 will be good for at least 4 years of gaming. The i7-2700k is 6yrs old and still decent but showing age. The new coffee lake won't improve gaming.
Quad core is enough if Intel. The 6core Intel CPUs are behind the 4 core in gaming. So, I wouldn't wait for the new 6 core Coffee lake which is months away.
Quad core is enough if Intel. The 6core Intel CPUs are behind the 4 core in gaming. So, I wouldn't wait for the new 6 core Coffee lake which is months away.
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