Should I have waited for Ryzen?

[NinjaSandvich]

I just built my new gaming rig, and I got the I7-7700k. I am wondering if this was a mistake. Should I have waited to see what AMD Ryzen had to offer? 

 

My I7-7700k I got for £300, and the biggest problem with it is the heat it gives off. There is nothing I can do now, but I just want to know if I made a mistake upgrading from my old I7-3770k to the new I7-7700k.

[Cryosec]

There is no way to know until they're released. Personally, I think you didn't make a mistake. For that price you could (maybe) get the SR5, which I don't expect to be at you CPU's level.

[SageOfSpice]

If you like waiting, I suppose there will always be something better.

You've got a solid setup. I'd be happy. You're guaranteed better performance, and who knows how Ryzen's pricing is going to go down. Probably blasted out the roof for the first half anyways.

 

 

[Guest Kloaked]

AMD is not going to come out with anything groundbreaking. They will not obliterate Intel in performance, ever. If they do I will eat one of my dirty shoes.

 

What they can and will probably do is match Intel in gaming performance, but you will be paying up for that. Don't count on Ryzen being super good, if at all. I guarantee you from how it's looking there are going to be a ton of issues.

[NinjaSandvich]

2 hours ago, Cryosec said:

There is no way to know until they're released. Personally, I think you didn't make a mistake. For that price you could (maybe) get the SR5, which I don't expect to be at you CPU's level.

 

2 hours ago, Kloaked said:

AMD is not going to come out with anything groundbreaking. They will not obliterate Intel in performance, ever. If they do I will eat one of my dirty shoes.

 

What they can and will probably do is match Intel in gaming performance, but you will be paying up for that. Don't count on Ryzen being super good, if at all. I guarantee you from how it's looking there are going to be a ton of issues.

 

2 hours ago, SageOfSpice said:

If you like waiting, I suppose there will always be something better.

You've got a solid setup. I'd be happy. You're guaranteed better performance, and who knows how Ryzen's pricing is going to go down. Probably blasted out the roof for the first half anyways.

 

 

Thanks to all, this is good to hear, I was getting kinda worried I had spent too much on something I could have got for less.

[smokefest]

3 hours ago, Kloaked said:

AMD is not going to come out with anything groundbreaking. They will not obliterate Intel in performance, ever. If they do I will eat one of my dirty shoes.

 

What they can and will probably do is match Intel in gaming performance, but you will be paying up for that. Don't count on Ryzen being super good, if at all. I guarantee you from how it's looking there are going to be a ton of issues.

you know the futur ? lolll

Acutally their ryzen was benchmarked and resulted in :

 

gaming : just under a skylake 6400

 

workstation : just under a 6950x

 

So will probably be  a great cpu but probably not gonna be better than intel tho..

But the price could be interesting

[Guest Kloaked]

6 minutes ago, smokefest said:

you know the futur ? lolll

I am making an educated guess based on previous AMD claims.

[AnonymousGuy]

You can buy a 7700K now, Ryzen is still not available.  The end.

 

If you're the type to buy i7 you're probably not going to be interested in anything AMD has to offer anyways.  They're competing on value not performance.

[Leftymonroe08]

I'm going through the same thing. My pc  should be built around end of February. I want the ryzen but I don't feel like waiting till probably end of march for it.