Should I wait for the i9-9700X or buy an i7 7700K now?

[TheMasterNerd]

Ive been working cutting lawns and have enough to buy a 7700K and have a bit left over. Should I continue working until I raise the £750e needed to buy one of the new LGA2066 Core i9 Extreme processors. Im not working within a set budget but would like to keep it within £4000 I have set aside £1600 for 2 EVGA GeForce GTX 1080Ti FTW3 cards. I am building a system primarily for video editing and gaming in a Corsair Carbide Series 400C ATX case and using a RM1000x power supply (both of which I have already bought). It seems to be a little strange to see a 13 year-old beginner jumping in with a high-power, high-cost system after using a low spec late 2012 mac for almost 5 years but I am fed up of not being able to play games at 1080p on settings higher than lowest stably. On less demanding games I can usually squeeze 20-30fps out of my 512mb GeForce GT 640M at 1080p. I would also like to be able to access more VR games as the PlayStationVR game library is very limited and is lacking many adventure games but I am really enjoying playing Star Trek Bridge Crew that I pre-ordered months ago that came jut the other day. I am willing to work for the money like I have been for the past three months. I AM ONLY GOING FOR INTEL/NVIDIA since I believe they are the best for Multi-Threadded performance although AMD's new X399 'Threadripper' CPU seems pretty promising. I just thought to ask for advice.

[Electronics Wizardy]

why not ryzen or threadripper? Those are looks much better right now.

[Tiwaz]

Just now, Electronics Wizardy said:

why not ryzen or threadripper? Those are looks much better right now.

intel all the way

[3 Lions]

The 9700X would be based on the Cannonlake architecture, that will be at least two years away. 

[TheMasterNerd]

6 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

why not ryzen or threadripper? Those are looks much better right now.

they are looking promising, not really a fan of AMD though, but the Price-Performance is higher.

4 minutes ago, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

The 9700X would be based on the Cannonlake architecture, that will be at least two years away. 

I thought it was based on Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake

[LienusLateTips]

Just now, TheMasterNerd said:

I thought it was based on Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake

its 7900X

[3 Lions]

2 minutes ago, TheMasterNerd said:

I thought it was based on Kaby Lake or Coffee Lake

That will be the Intel 9000 series which will be Cannonlake. 

[TheMasterNerd]

Just now, LinusTechTipsFanFromDarlo said:

That will be the Intel 9000 series which will be Cannonlake. 

ok thanks, didn't know

[LienusLateTips]

But if your going to buy now, get R7 1700.

[DrMikeNZ]

If you use AVX2/AVX512 applications, consider Intel i9, if not, and you need a lot of cores for multithreaded processing, Ryzen 9 Threadripper would be the better choice.

[TheMasterNerd]

Just now, JDE said:

But if your going to buy now, get R7 1700.

I don't exactually like the Ryzen lineup if I'm honest

[LienusLateTips]

Just now, TheMasterNerd said:

I don't exactually like the Ryzen lineup if I'm honest

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[TheMasterNerd]

Just now, DrMikeNZ said:

If you use AVX2/AVX512 applications, consider Intel i9, if not, and you need a lot of cores for multithreaded processing, Ryzen 9 Threadripper would be the better choice.

I use some AVX2 apps especially for animation

 

[Thyldor]

I'd say that given that you had to ask which one to get, you should get the 7700K. Personally, I would rather go for AMD as it stands, as they have a lot better performance in productivity and lag behind 10-15% at most in gaming (which I think is more due to a lack of optimization than the lack of raw horsepower). 

 

As for the graphics cards, 2 1080TIs in SLI seem a bit much. Given how badly SLI scales, go for 1 to start with and if you really feel like you need another, buy another then.

[DrMikeNZ]

1 minute ago, TheMasterNerd said:

I use some AVX2 apps especially for animation

Then Ryzen will give you weak performance, wait for the i9 lineup.

[done12many2]

2 minutes ago, DrMikeNZ said:

Then Ryzen will give you weak performance, wait for the i9 lineup.

 

Very overlooked fact.  If you use AVX, AVX-512 in Skylake-X is going to bring about some nice gains.   Things are definitely going to get a bit warm when running it, but the rewards will be worth it.  

 

7 minutes ago, TheMasterNerd said:

I don't exactually like the Ryzen lineup if I'm honest

 

You don't have to justify your preference.  If you like Intel stick with them.  If performance is all that matters, keep an opened mind to all brands.

 

I can tell you that a 7700k / 1080 Ti SLI is a pretty insane combo.  I run this setup currently.  

 

How soon will you be ordering your parts?  I'll be picking up x299 and the biggest Skylake X chip available upon release.  

 

With that said, if there are some specific examples of performance that you are looking for, I can run those tests on the z270 and x299 platforms for you.  

 

Good luck man.  

[DrMacintosh]

tbh AMD Ryzen processors are a better value in terms of performance and price. Threadripper looks like its going to put the i9 CPUs to shame and for less money too. 

[tiggar47]

52 minutes ago, TheMasterNerd said:

I don't exactually like the Ryzen lineup if I'm honest

Wait couple of weeks and buy Threadripper, it'll be worth it when paired with 2 1080Ti's in SLI.