Help with upgrading

mizudee · Aug 22, 2017

HI,
I have recently sold my mobo, i5 4690k and RAM. Looking to upgrade to i7 7700 with new mobo and RAM. Was wondering if I should go ahead with the purchase or wait for the 8th gen chips and mobo. It will be used for gaming primarily battlefield. Thanks in advance. (I will not be using RYZEN)

M04D18 · Aug 22, 2017

Ryzen that you will not use is a better option than 7700 in my opinion at the moment... So i suggest you wait some days for the 8th gen Intel processors.

boosted1g · Aug 22, 2017

Agree.

Ryzen is better buy than intel 7xxx so if you dont want Ryzen then wait for intel 8xxx

coozie7 · Aug 22, 2017

There's no clear release date for Coffee Lake, besides, it'll be a couple of months for the supply chain to catch up, so as a early adopter you'll have limited choices available for the motherboard and, most likely, CPU.

If you game at higher resolutions, or on dual screens I'll suggest you rethink using Ryzen, the performance loss with the AMD option at higher resolutions is marginal in current games while the extra cores/threads is more forwards looking (and dead handy in multi threaded multi core aware software). Although it's often higher in older titles their usually less demanding nature means they're running at such high frame rates that any performance deficit can largely be ignored.

Obviously, I'm not telling you to go Ryzen, that's your choice, but with no clear release date for Coffee Lake and the inevitably limited choices of CPUs and motherboards to early adopters I'll suggest you go for the i7 7700. Just be aware that if you plan to overclock these chips can be a problem to cool, it's down to the less than brilliant TIM Intel uses between the CPU die and the heatspreader here, not your choice of cooler.

mizudee · Aug 22, 2017

coozie7 :

There's no clear release date for Coffee Lake, besides, it'll be a couple of months for the supply chain to catch up, so as a early adopter you'll have limited choices available for the motherboard and, most likely, CPU.

If you game at higher resolutions, or on dual screens I'll suggest you rethink using Ryzen, the performance loss with the AMD option at higher resolutions is marginal in current games while the extra cores/threads is more forwards looking (and dead handy in multi threaded multi core aware software). Although it's often higher in older titles their usually less demanding nature means they're running at such high frame rates that any performance deficit can largely be ignored.
Thank you. Do you think the issues is mainly quality related because not evry user has that issue?
Obviously, I'm not telling you to go Ryzen, that's your choice, but with no clear release date for Coffee Lake and the inevitably limited choices of CPUs and motherboards to early adopters I'll suggest you go for the i7 7700. Just be aware that if you plan to overclock these chips can be a problem to cool, it's down to the less than brilliant TIM Intel uses between the CPU die and the heatspreader here, not your choice of cooler.

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