truthfully BW-E is pretty crap, clocks awfully and 6900K is extremely overpriced, so I am not extremely impressed if Zen has parity with it and smashes it in price/performance .. would not recommend BW-E even if Zen didnt exist
I expect Skylake-X to improve on it in terms of clocks substantially, maybe with better price to .. then we'll see
I would much rather instead of competing with their 8 cores against BW-E that Zen OCed quads and hexas could go toe to toe (or come close) with an OCed 6700K/7700K in games .. now that would be amazing
Assuming I do upgrade, I'll prob go with the 1800x, even if the 1700 can OC or come close to 1800x performance, I'm a lazy simple man and I'd just be happy with out of the box performance.
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Nope, not really. There just have not been any large improvements in CPUs for the past several years. Just really tiny little improvements. Ryzan is a huge leap for AMD, but it's still really just putting them on par with intels performance, not way ahead or anything. If you had a 3-4 year old AMD CPU, it might be worth upgrading, but since you already have intel, no real reason.
someone was saying earlier that 7700K dont hit 5.0 GHz
https://siliconlottery.com/collectio...ducts/7700k50g
As of 2/22/17, the top 59% of tested 7700Ks were able to hit 5.0GHz or greater.
Most of Kaby Lake processors are not able to operate on those freqs with a safe voltage. If you want to argue: about 1/4 of Skylake skews I tested (which is around 30-40) were able to hit 5 Ghz, but I wouldnt risk to advice on going with it on the daily basis. Kaby Lakes have about 300 Mhz bump over Skylakes: most Skylakes can hit 4.5-4.6, most Kaby Lakes hit 4.8-4.9 as a stable overclock.
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You know... overclocking to 5.0 has shown to be extremely bad thermal wise, and at the really unsafe range. Just cause you can do it doesn't mean you should.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/10968/...ce-champion/11
They're using a Coolermaster Nepton 140X, so it's not the best on market cooler whatsoever, however it does kind of outline how fast the temperature rises and you can sort of extrapolate by performance delta of the coolers where yours is going to hit.
1.4v for 4.8GHz looks like a subpar sample.
I think most 5-5.2GHz stable samples use -200...-400MHz AVX offset
I'm really hoping amd can get a win here, bring some balance and most importantly competition back to the CPU market
It's officially on, AMD is back in the race.
http://wccftech.com/amd-ryzen-7-1700...ly-benchmarks/
If the 1700x is crushing benchmarks like in multiple and single core, and at this price Intel better be worried. I would be, I'm getting a 1700x as soon as possible.
Anyone else notice the "performance bias" setting in the bios? Apparently it increases cinebench score with whatever trickery is at play, and depending on how much it could falsify AMD's claims of being faster than the 6900k at the press conference.