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Thank you for the answers guys ! Much appreciated @NerdModeEngaged I've been torturing myself over the past few days with either going with the Ryzen chip or the Intel chip. I have to say Ryzen's are pretty impressive for the price and certainly a lot more bang for your buck. But, long story short, I've found out that the Intel chip is the way to go for heavy duty music production projects because single core performance and clock speed are paramount for real-time audio processing and working at low latency - better than more cores clocked at lower speed like the current Ryzen chip. It's been a god damn head-itching reading through every possible forums and benchmarks, but I'm pretty confident now with the 8700K, even if the price isn't ideal - it just performs better in that regard (and this is my top priority as music production is my day to day work). Truth be told I was originally considering replacing my laptop with an Alienware 15 R3 at approx. 2.000€ so.. I'm pretty sure I won't hit that mark with a good upgrade, not even close. So most of you guys would consider an upgrade right now ? That's appealing indeed

Hey guys ! Currently debating if my rig could need an update with the new Coffeelake i7 8700K chip. I'm a music composer using Cubase and mostly creating orchestral music with pretty big projects, including a lot of tracks with VST's (Kontakt/Omnisphere/Diva/Bazille/EZDrummer..) and plugins (Waves, iZotope, FabFilter, Lexicon..). I'm also doing quite a bit of gaming at 1080p/60Hz. I wouldn't consider myself as a hardcore or competitive gamer, I just play games casually, most of them being single player RPG's, FPS's or online multiplayer games like Hearthstone or Overwatch. My current setup is : Proc : i5-4590 (3.3 Ghz) Mobo : MSI Z97 PC Mate RAM : 24GB DDR3 (yeah..) GPU : Sapphire R9 290 Tri-X OC 4GB OS : Windows 7 x64 While I don't have too much problems running most current games maxed out @1080p/60Hz, I do encounter some limitations when working on big Cubase projects (audio crackles, dropouts, CPU@100% load..). So ! My question is the following : is it worth upgrading at all ? If it is, is it worth upgrading to an i7 8700K or wait a little bit longer and see what Ice Lake has to offer in 2019-2020 ? I'm not sure if the performance gain will significant, that's why I'm not entirely sure if waiting for that could be a good strategy. Thank you for your answers !