Upgrading worth it or should I wait?

[W!SS]

Hello guys, I currently have a Core i7 7700, 16 GB DDR4 RAM (2166) and an RTX 2070 Super my Mainboard is an MSI Gaming M3 (H170 Chipset)

My system is handling everything great including Games and Music Production as I use Ableton Live to produce music and it needs lots of CPU power, now the thing here is that I made some research about the 9 series Intel CPUs and made some comparison, I'll get some performance boost but it does not justify the $600+ that I'll be spending, do you think I should wait for the 10 nm Intel CPUs?

[Boinbo]

Honestly, you probably don't need to upgrade at all until 2021-2022. Until then, it is still very capable. The only thing I might maybe upgrade, for overclocking, is your mother board, to a z270 motherboard (idk if z370 supports 7th gen Intel).

Edited August 7, 2019 by Boinbo

[Dedayog]

I wouldn't upgrade, and definitely not the motherboard.  No increase in performance with a motherboard purchase, it's a foundation for the other parts only.

 

Look at AMD's new stuff, if you need CPU horsepower like you say.  Their CPUs are inexpensive for all the cores/threads you may need.  Otherwise just wait til next year to see what Intel's 10nm and AMD's Zen 2+-^&(*^*R$$^ (their naming scheme is so fucking stupid) are like.

 

basically, skip this generation unless you music production needs grow.

[Sorenson]

If you want intel i would wait a couple months for the 10th series chips. Intel generally only supports a cpu platform for two years, so 10th gen will probably be a new motherboard.

[W!SS]

Thanks for your input guys, yeah I think I'll wait for now!

[Mister Woof]

What's your display? Maybe that might be a good place to look at upgrading

[EmoChipmonk]

Honestly Your pc is quite good. Unless you plan on really wanting to use Ray tracing then mabey wait to upgrade to the amphere 80ti card when it comes out next year (Prob like may at the earlyest). Other wise maybe just focus on peripherals.

[cried22]

I upgraded from a 6700k to an 8086k at 5.2 and noticed a significant performance lift in games with a 2080ti.

[EmoChipmonk]

57 minutes ago, EmoChipmonk said:

Honestly Your pc is quite good. Unless you plan on really wanting to use Ray tracing then mabey wait to upgrade to the amphere 80ti card when it comes out next year (Prob like may at the earlyest). Other wise maybe just focus on peripherals.

Unless ivelake give a 15 or more preformance uplife from coffee lake then you should just stick with what you got till what comes after ice lake.

[Epimetheus]

10th gen doesn't look so good as of now, so i'd still wait a second generation for the process to mature. I'm saying that based on the fact that Ice Lake which Is based on 10nm too doesn't achieve more clock speed than its predecessors

[diwall]

I think the 7700k is fine. I just find the memory frequency a bit low. Maybe there is an optimization to do here (3000mhz for example) . But for the CPU and GPU, it's all good. if you find your in trouble with other software than games (DAW, Video recorder / editor...), maybe you should look at a better workstation CPU like a ryzen 7 3700x. But it's not mandatory, your CPU is still good.