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Hey Guys. Im building a pc in early may, and I was wondering if I should stick with kaby lake or wait for coffee lake. What do you think?

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If Coffee Lake is going to be released in about 2 months, then wait for it. Otherwise just go with whatever you can get right now off the market. No point in endlessly waiting for new CPUs to arrive if you ask me.

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I agree, I have been waiting for many years because of this. "I'll just wait for the next generation because it will be better"

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I don't see why not, if you have a computer that you're fine with why not wait.

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Well coffee lake will have a 6c6t i5 so you would have to be mad to buy a kabylake now. Also I would buy the ram now because that is still going up in price 

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9 hours ago, Jumper118 said:

Well coffee lake will have a 6c6t i5 so you would have to be mad to buy a kabylake now. Also I would buy the ram now because that is still going up in price 

 

9 hours ago, coldpizzas said:

I don't see why not, if you have a computer that you're fine with why not wait.

 

22 hours ago, rockon5622 said:

I agree, I have been waiting for many years because of this. "I'll just wait for the next generation because it will be better"

 

On 4/25/2017 at 10:27 PM, Simon771 said:

If Coffee Lake is going to be released in about 2 months, then wait for it. Otherwise just go with whatever you can get right now off the market. No point in endlessly waiting for new CPUs to arrive if you ask me.

They said it will be released in the 2nd half of 2017. Another rumor is that it will use the z270 chipset. I dont want to buy a CPU and then have it be outdated in a couple months. I am very anxious to build my computer, since the one I have right now is a potato.

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1 minute ago, Jacob Canale said:

 

 

 

They said it will be released in the 2nd half of 2017. Another rumor is that it will use the z270 chipset. I dont want to buy a CPU and then have it be outdated in a couple months. I am very anxious to build my computer, since the one I have right now is a potato.

I PERSONALLY doubt Coffee Lake will beat Ryzen, and certainly not by much. I'm expecting Coffee-Lake to bring Intel back into competition against Ryzen, so I wouldn't PERSONALLY worry about it. 

 

I'm expecting Coffee Lake to be something like: 4c/4t i3, 4c/8t i5, and 6c/12t i7 with 30% higher single core performance (accounting for IPC and higher clockspeeds) but abut 50% lower multi-core performance than Ryzen. All-in-all, I'm expecting the the two to be similar at the end of the day. 

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9 hours ago, Jumper118 said:

Well coffee lake will have a 6c6t i5 so you would have to be mad to buy a kabylake now. Also I would buy the ram now because that is still going up in price 

How'd you unlock 8 cores on your 1500x?

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3 minutes ago, djdwosk97 said:

I PERSONALLY doubt Coffee Lake will beat Ryzen, and certainly not by much. I'm expecting Coffee-Lake to bring Intel back into competition against Ryzen, so I wouldn't PERSONALLY worry about it. 

 

I'm expecting Coffee Lake to be something like: 4c/4t i3, 4c/8t i5, and 6c/12t i7 with 30% higher single core performance (accounting for IPC and higher clockspeeds) but abut 50% lower multi-core performance than Ryzen. All-in-all, I'm expecting the the two to be similar at the end of the day. 

Still, a six core 12 thread i7 would blow a kaby lake i7 out of the park. I dont want my pc to become outdated so quickly.

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I would wait Canon Lake before buying Intel again

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13 minutes ago, Jacob Canale said:

Still, a six core 12 thread i7 would blow a kaby lake i7 out of the park. I dont want my pc to become outdated so quickly.

Update to Ryzen, not KL. 

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3 hours ago, linustouchtips said:

wait for tiger lake buy a ryzen now 

I won't be doing any video rendering or stuff like that. I'll be doing more gaming, so I'm going to stick with intel 

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3 minutes ago, Jacob Canale said:

I won't be doing any video rendering or stuff like that. I'll be doing more gaming, so I'm going to stick with intel 

Ryzen is basically just as good as a 7700k in terms of gaming today and the long-term potential is FAR greater and FAR outweighs the current benefits of a 7700k. The 7700k aside, Ryzen is an all around better choice even for gaming today. 

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