Upgrade to 7700k or wait for coffee lake?

[Mantis21]

I'm currently running an fx 8350 with my GTX 1070. I mostly play games and do some light coding and rendering tasks. I don't think I do enough big processing tasks to warrant buying Ryzen. Do you guys think I should go ahead and upgrade (cpu, mobo, RAM) to a 7700k or wait for coffee lake? 

[zMeul]

if the launch is still in 2017, I would wait - you waited that long

if you can't/won't, 7700K is still a very good buy

[Mantis21]

Just now, zMeul said:

if the launch is still in 2017, I would wait - you waited that long

if you can't/won't, 7700K is still a very good buy

Thanks for the input, I was thinking about waiting too

[done12many2]

I think we are getting danger close to Coffee Lake dropping so the wait would more than likely be worth it.  

[WhatPlantsCrave]

I would wait to see what covfefe-lake brings, but again it might be fake news...

[VVoltor]

It's the 4th revision of their 14nm process, performance gains will be minimal. I think we can expect slightly higher clock speeds on a similar lineup of chips, just like when we went from Skylake to Kaby Lake. And better on-board graphics. That's about it, nothing to get excited about.

 

So, if you want a 6 core CPU, that might be worth waiting for, at least if the price of that thing is going to be similar to AMD's offering. (pro tip: it won't)  If you want 4 cores, just get a 7700k.

 

Do you think it was worth waiting for the 7700k when the 6700k was around? Exactly.

[Princess Luna]

@VVoltor

 

Yah don't forget the main selling point on Coffee Lake are the extra cores, I can't see how a 6c/12 mainstrem CPU on latest IPC available won't be a much better option vs x299 overpriced 6c/12t alternative and since it'll be offering even superior gaming performance facing the 7700k as "minimal" as it is the wait is well worth it.

[VivashTech]

My opinion is get the 7700k while its still hot and has deals for it. It will be a big step up from your 8350 and if intel's lineup continues to look like it is i think that is a good option. Not to mention the prices of x299 motherboards and processors which are not worth it for what you want out of your computer

[Personator]

Well, if the rumors are correct about there being a 6c/12t sku, I thinkw aiting for Coffee Lake would be better. I'm waiting myself, to upgrade from a i5 7400, to whatever the best Coffee lake mainstream there is.