i7 8700k and Z370 board or upgrade my gtx 1060 to 1080 or 1080ti

[mattyamy84]

i have a asrock z270 extreme 4 with i7 7700k at 4.9ghz with a gtx 1060 6gb. should i buy i7 8700k and Z370 board or upgrade my gtx 1060 to 1080 or 1080ti. i play some games and dont really use my cpu for anything more intensive than civilization 5 or just lots of apps and browsers open at once playing video off youtube at 4k if possible. i game on a acer predator x34 at 100hz with G-sync. i like to have newest hardware  and my faviroute part of pc's is just building them and upgrading. i prefer to build a system than game on one, and i like my pc to look good as case is all glass thermaltake view 71 riing rgb edition. 

i want to get z370 and i7 8700k because its new(well will be in few days) but is it really gonna help my performance, or would a new gpu really be a better way to spend my money 

[WereCat]

There is absolutely no reason to upgrade CPU for your usage scenario...just grab better GPU and you're set.

[JoostinOnline]

We know next to nothing about Coffee Lake. Wait till it's released. 

 

But probably a GPU upgrade. 

[rodrcastro]

Spend it on a GTX 1080 or 1080Ti. Your CPU is already very new and will be just fine for everything you said you do

[Mi26]

GTX1080/Ti since I7 7700K is still going strong in single core performance 

[Drak3]

28 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

We know next to nothing about Coffee Lake.

We know it's Skylake architecture on a 14nm++ node refinement with 2 extra cores, using the same Cache structure as Sky-S and Kaby. We know the IMC can push higher RAM clocks out the gate.

 

The only thing we really don't know is overclocking capability.

[ARikozuM]

1080 would be the better upgrade, but wait until October 7th. 

[DocSwag]

Get a better GPU for sure. With a 1060 and especially at 3440x1440 your GPU is gonna be the bottleneck even with a ton of stuff in the background.

[SeanAngelo]

38 minutes ago, mattyamy84 said:

i have a asrock z270 extreme 4 with i7 7700k at 4.9ghz with a gtx 1060 6gb. should i buy i7 8700k and Z370 board or upgrade my gtx 1060 to 1080 or 1080ti. i play some games and dont really use my cpu for anything more intensive than civilization 5 or just lots of apps and browsers open at once playing video off youtube at 4k if possible. i game on a acer predator x34 at 100hz with G-sync. i like to have newest hardware  and my faviroute part of pc's is just building them and upgrading. i prefer to build a system than game on one, and i like my pc to look good as case is all glass thermaltake view 71 riing rgb edition. 

i want to get z370 and i7 8700k because its new(well will be in few days) but is it really gonna help my performance, or would a new gpu really be a better way to spend my money 

upgrade from a 7700k? not worth it. if it was like a 3570k or 4770k then yeah.

 

get a 1080ti instead

[JoostinOnline]

1 hour ago, Drak3 said:

We know it's Skylake architecture on a 14nm++ node refinement with 2 extra cores, using the same Cache structure as Sky-S and Kaby. We know the IMC can push higher RAM clocks out the gate.

 

The only thing we really don't know is overclocking capability.

I hadn't seen that Intel made an official announcement yesterday.  Two days ago it was almost entirely rumors.

[Drak3]

2 minutes ago, JoostinOnline said:

I hadn't seen that Intel made an official announcement yesterday.  Two days ago it was almost entirely rumors.

No, we've had confirmed into for a good bit of it. Only unknowns until recently were IMC and Ring bus vs Mesh bus.

[JoostinOnline]

5 minutes ago, Drak3 said:

No, we've had confirmed into for a good bit of it. Only unknowns until recently were IMC and Ring bus vs Mesh bus.

We didn't even know the prices.  There were leaks, but that's not the same thing.

 

Edit: And no, I'm not counting what a few sellers said on their website.  Prices are often placeholders until the company announces the official price.  And that's exactly what they were.