Should I hold off my CPU purchase?

[hosty1337]

Hi guys,

 

I have a GTX 1080 and I'm looking to upgrade basically everything but the GPU and drives. I got an i5-4670k @4,3GHz right now and am looking to upgrade to 8700k. So the question is: Should I wait for the 9th gen Intel or just grab the current i7 at slightly lower prices than when released. I need just gaming performance, no rendering or workstation stuff is intended for this build. I'm gaming at 1440p, 165Hz. Games I play are mainly PUBG, Dota 2 and any new good release. If the rumors of the i7 getting rid of hyperthreading and giving it to just i9 and making the i9 cheaper doesn't sound great to me. My school mate also said something about that the new gen having better TIM under the IHS and slighlty better clock 
(cca 200 MHz). Since Coffee lake came out around this time last year is it worth waiting slighlty longer for what most likely will be just a refresh of CL? It's still going to be 14nm right? I just want to grab a new pc ASAP since both pubg and dota both are getting bottlenecked by the CPU. So what do you guys think? I'm open to any suggestions. 

 

Thank you very much if you've made it this far and have a nice day. 

[Od1sseas]

Get the i7 8700K

[JuztBe]

Having solder is enough of a reason to wait for 9th gen personally. 
8 cores shold perform better than 6 with HT anyway.

[hosty1337]

Just now, JuztBe said:

Having solder is enough of a reason to wait for 9th gen personally. 
8 cores shold perform better than 6 with HT anyway.

Interesting... Can you elaborate a little more about the solder? How much does it affect the thermals? 

[JuztBe]

1 minute ago, Gwinbleidd said:

Interesting... Can you elaborate a little more about the solder? How much does it affect the thermals? 

Delided 8700k with liquid metal can drop temperature by ~20C. 

Of course solder wont be as good as liquid metal, my guess would be 10+ degrees compared to tooth paste intel uses.

[userzero]

Why are you upgrading? What is it struggling with? Asking because I see so much of this unnecessary upgrading just to say you have the latest stuff, which if is the case, I find pretty pathetic.

[hosty1337]

9 hours ago, userzero said:

Why are you upgrading? What is it struggling with? Asking because I see so much of this unnecessary upgrading just to say you have the latest stuff, which if is the case, I find pretty pathetic.

As I mentioned before, I'm playing at 165Hz and 1440p and when I check the usage of my GPU and CPU I just feel underwhelmed that the CPU is at 100% almost all the time while the GTX 1080 is around 70% so I'd like them both to be equal, also I'm not reaching those 165fps that I desire with the 165hz monitor. I know it's not going to be that much better performance improvement, but it's definitely going to be noticable from what I've gathered so far. Also it's either this or a new expensive phone and I just prefer to have my sexy desktop up to scratch. 

[Zando_]

10 hours ago, Gwinbleidd said:

Hi guys,

 

I have a GTX 1080 and I'm looking to upgrade basically everything but the GPU and drives. I got an i5-4670k @4,3GHz right now and am looking to upgrade to 8700k. So the question is: Should I wait for the 9th gen Intel or just grab the current i7 at slightly lower prices than when released. I need just gaming performance, no rendering or workstation stuff is intended for this build. I'm gaming at 1440p, 165Hz. Games I play are mainly PUBG, Dota 2 and any new good release. If the rumors of the i7 getting rid of hyperthreading and giving it to just i9 and making the i9 cheaper doesn't sound great to me. My school mate also said something about that the new gen having better TIM under the IHS and slighlty better clock 
(cca 200 MHz). Since Coffee lake came out around this time last year is it worth waiting slighlty longer for what most likely will be just a refresh of CL? It's still going to be 14nm right? I just want to grab a new pc ASAP since both pubg and dota both are getting bottlenecked by the CPU. So what do you guys think? I'm open to any suggestions. 

 

Thank you very much if you've made it this far and have a nice day. 

For just gaming the 8700K, though you can save money and get the 8600K, it matches and sometimes beats it in most games, and in those it falls behind it's only a few fps drop.