Doubt regarding Intel's upcoming 8th gen Coffee Lake cpu

Manoyal

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Hey guys, I have an important question regarding intel's 8th gen upcoming cpus. I am making a new gaming pc now and have bought most of the parts, only cpu,gpu and mobo is left(yep the main parts).
So since it is already spreading across sites regarding the coffee lake lineup I decided to wait for its release and see its benchmarks against ryzen and then buy it.As it was stated in many sites intel are releasing i3 8100, 8350k, i5 8400, 8600k and i7 8700 8700k. So here is the doubt...will only these cpus be released for the desktop chips? Will there be no i5 8500? As a successor to i5 7500 just like it was to 6500? Since I cant afford to buy 8600k with a Z series mobo,I would prefer 8500; and I dont wanna get 8400 because its clock speeds are way too low. And after I saw no 8500 in the lineup i got really sad :(
I would also like to add that if I buy ryzen then there will be some issue for me.As I wont be buying gpu until atleast beginning of 2018 so I wont be able to use my pc for some time. So I preferably should go with intel.
 
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Why would you buy any parts until you can use them all? You buy everything once you are ready to build. To buy early only means you are missing out on possible price drops, new products, product updates, news and the current market picture at that time.
The only reason I see to buy any part as soon as possible is if you are buying used and pick them up when you find them.
If you aren't buying the GPU until early 2018, wait to buy the other parts you need at the same time. Who knows what may happening in 4-6 months. I would say an 8500 isn't likely but AMD may have new cpu's out...


I'm wanting to believe that these new 6-core i5 will last 3-5 years sort of like the 2nd-gen i5 did.
 

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Intel's Coffee Lake presentation got leaked months ago. The i3 picks up the 4C4T mantle and all standard desktop i5 will be 6C6T and goes down to the i5-8400 which should have a max boost frequency of 3.8GHz if I'm reading the blurry picture correctly.
 

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Why would you buy any parts until you can use them all? You buy everything once you are ready to build. To buy early only means you are missing out on possible price drops, new products, product updates, news and the current market picture at that time.
The only reason I see to buy any part as soon as possible is if you are buying used and pick them up when you find them.
If you aren't buying the GPU until early 2018, wait to buy the other parts you need at the same time. Who knows what may happening in 4-6 months. I would say an 8500 isn't likely but AMD may have new cpu's out then.

 
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