Dear Forum.
Hoping someone can provide me with some insight.
I'm considering buying the Octane IV laptop from PC Specialist (see link below). I'd be looking at getting it with the i7 8700K, 1070 GPU and 64GB of RAM. This will be used for various CAD software on large projects.
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/octaneIV-15/
I'm hesitating though as I see on the "leaked" Intel Roadmap for 2018 (such as here http://www.legitreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4a57d565f5e9417ba5d4bbfdfc0b25a7.jpg ) it seems to be showing different/new Coffee Lake S 6 core 95W processors being released in Q1.
Is it likely that those new processors will be fitting the same 'need' as the i7 8700K? Seems very strange that they would be as it seems the i7 8700K was just released the last couple of months.
If it was just going to be a case of waiting a couple of months for a newer processor that was going to provide improved IPC/Turbo boost/Sustained Turbo or such I would wait. I'm not nearly as concerned with whether it has additional USB/Thunderbolt type options as I don't really connect much to my computer, it's really processor power and RAM that would be driving my decisions.
Any insight would be very much appreciated.
Hoping someone can provide me with some insight.
I'm considering buying the Octane IV laptop from PC Specialist (see link below). I'd be looking at getting it with the i7 8700K, 1070 GPU and 64GB of RAM. This will be used for various CAD software on large projects.
https://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/octaneIV-15/
I'm hesitating though as I see on the "leaked" Intel Roadmap for 2018 (such as here http://www.legitreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/4a57d565f5e9417ba5d4bbfdfc0b25a7.jpg ) it seems to be showing different/new Coffee Lake S 6 core 95W processors being released in Q1.
Is it likely that those new processors will be fitting the same 'need' as the i7 8700K? Seems very strange that they would be as it seems the i7 8700K was just released the last couple of months.
If it was just going to be a case of waiting a couple of months for a newer processor that was going to provide improved IPC/Turbo boost/Sustained Turbo or such I would wait. I'm not nearly as concerned with whether it has additional USB/Thunderbolt type options as I don't really connect much to my computer, it's really processor power and RAM that would be driving my decisions.
Any insight would be very much appreciated.
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