I7-7700K vs I7-8700K Question

[Nick91]

Hello,

 

I recently acquired an I7-7700k for free and G. SKill Trident Z RGB 16 GB DDR4. I wanted start a new PC build and planned to buy everything this week but with the news of the new 8th gen processor coming out, it made me contemplate whether to stick with the 7700K or sell it and get the 8700K next week. Would the 8700K be worth the wait? I do not have any other computer parts yet except the two mentioned above. Any input would be great. I mainly play games and do some photo editing for work. 

 

I currently use a Lenovo Y50 laptop. It runs ok but it starts to have graphic issues with gaming. I had to recently lower my settings just to load into PUBG, Starcraft, Overwatch, and ARK. ARK being the worse then PUBG then the other two. The Y50 is is I7-4XXX (can't recall what version), GTX 960M, 16 GB of RAM, 250 SSD, 1 TB HD. IPS monitor

[shooter2749]

3 minutes ago, Nick91 said:

Hello,

 

I recently acquired an I7-7700k for free and G. SKill Trident Z RGB 16 GB DDR4. I wanted start a new PC build and planned to buy everything this week but with the news of the new 8th gen processor coming out, it made me contemplate whether to stick with the 7700K or sell it and get the 8700K next week. Would the 8700K be worth the wait? I do not have any other computer parts yet except the two mentioned above. Any input would be great. I mainly play games and do some photo editing for work. 

 

I currently use a Lenovo Y50 laptop. It runs ok but it starts to have graphic issues with gaming. I had to recently lower my settings just to load into PUBG, Starcraft, Overwatch, and ARK. ARK being the worse then PUBG then the other two. The Y50 is is I7-4XXX (can't recall what version), GTX 960M, 16 GB of RAM, 250 SSD, 1 TB HD. IPS monitor

yes change it

[SeanAngelo]

8 minutes ago, Nick91 said:

Hello,

 

I recently acquired an I7-7700k for free and G. SKill Trident Z RGB 16 GB DDR4. I wanted start a new PC build and planned to buy everything this week but with the news of the new 8th gen processor coming out, it made me contemplate whether to stick with the 7700K or sell it and get the 8700K next week. Would the 8700K be worth the wait? I do not have any other computer parts yet except the two mentioned above. Any input would be great. I mainly play games and do some photo editing for work. 

 

I currently use a Lenovo Y50 laptop. It runs ok but it starts to have graphic issues with gaming. I had to recently lower my settings just to load into PUBG, Starcraft, Overwatch, and ARK. ARK being the worse then PUBG then the other two. The Y50 is is I7-4XXX (can't recall what version), GTX 960M, 16 GB of RAM, 250 SSD, 1 TB HD. IPS monitor

get the 8700k. some say its not worth it but i think it is, especially the two extra cores and two extra threads. 

[dcgreen2k]

If you want, you can. You could probably sell it for ~$250 and then buy the 8700K for $330. Personally, I would just keep the 7700K until I'm not happy with the performance; that's why I only just upgraded from a Core 2 Quad last week...

 

OH CRAP EDIT: I didn't know that the 8700K was 6-core! Heck yeah, go get coffee lake!

[Misanthrope]

Absolutely: Sell it while you can still get a decent price for it waiting 1 or 2 weeks is not too much. You might even be able to get away with just the 8600k that's still gonna be 6 cores hyperthreading is not that big of a deal if you already have 6 strong physical cores.

[Princess Luna]

The i7 7700k is still an awesome processor it deserves claps, unless you're feeling bleeding edge performance there is no need to upgrade, in fact having a Kaby Lake i7 I'd personally only upgrade on Ice Lake which will be Cannon's Lake 10nm processors refresh.

[tyrage]

Wait for cannonlake

[Fardin]

you might feel to upgrade also when cannon lake 10nm or ryzen zen2 release at 2018 , since you got it free & its an amazing chip. i say hold on to it. upgrade next year if you need, that would be worthy.  

[Nick91]

Thanks everyone for the input. It's has been a conflicting question to myself all day with everything ready to buy for the I7-7700K. I think I may just build this one as it should be more than enough to do what I need to do.