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
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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.