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What do you guys think, should I upgrade my 6700K to Zen 2 when it launches?

 

It still gives great gaming performance once OC'd to 4,7GHz, however even at 1440p it gets nearly maxed out in recent Battlefield games on CPU-intensive maps and I'd honestly prefer to have a few spare cores.

Ideally, I'm looking somewhere around 9900K's performance but I am not willing to pay the price of one and neither do I want to invest in Z390 as it's probably a "dead" platform already, meaning no upgrade path. And I was hurt by that fact with my 6700K - it was the first LGA1151 CPU and yet there's literally no upgrade available.

 

It was a platform with no upgrade possible from the launch day if you bought a 6700K :(

  1. Skiiwee29

    Skiiwee29

    Its to early to tell for sure, but by the leaks, Zen 2 is definitely looking promising. We should know more at the end of May when Dr Lisa Su does her Keynote opening speech for Computex on May 27th I believe it is?

  2. Nocte

    Nocte

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    I was hurt by that fact with my 6700K - it was the first LGA1151 CPU and yet there's literally no upgrade available.

    There is the 7700K. /s

    It is difficult to say for certain given the lack of benchmarks, but I think that you are better off waiting and upgrading to a Ryzen 7 (or maybe Ryzen 9 with 12 cores?) in June/July. According to rumours, leaks, etc. (still not a certain source though) it looks like that IPC and clockspeed improvements are going to put Zen 2 at least on par with Intel for gaming.

  3. Bananasplit_00

    Bananasplit_00

    I'm not switching from my I7 4790K any time soon, performance is still great, new CPUs are barely an upgrade even when spending €700 on the upgrade 

  4. XenosTech

    XenosTech

    I was thinking to do the same with my 7700k. Temps are bonkers so OCing is out of the question. It's a wait and see for me right now.

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