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Originally Posted by pasi
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Rog - why the 7700k? My impression from the tech community was that its barely an upgrade.
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Barely an upgrade from the 6700k yes. It's definitely not worth upgrading if that's what you have. But I've been planning to build a PC for some time now. Almost did it last year with the 6700k but decided to wait when I read about more cores coming.
Then Broadwell-E came and the highest IPC was the 6850k, and the highest binned overclock was 4.6 GHZ. I need IPC more than I need cores, so I decided to wait again. Now with the 7700k out, we're seeing much higher overclocks than any of the chips within the last 5 years.
When doing a clock-for-clock comparison, each generation does yield about a 5 to 10% performance improvement from a previous generation at the same speed. Consider that I'm 4 generations behind (Ivy Bridge), currently running at 4.6 GHZ, and my new processor will probably run 5.3 or 5.4 GHZ after delidding. That's an 800 mhz increase on top of the 4 gen difference.
Not to mention all the other components I'd benefit from in a new PC.. NVME, GTX 1080 [Ti], etc. I don't like to do partial upgrades so I just rebuild when I'm ready.
Honestly, my 3770k could probably last me another year or two. But 5 years is a long time to go without building a new PC, for a performance freak like me
[You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]. I also don't think the next processors from Intel (which should be the new 10nm architecture) will come close to the same overclocking potential until the tock refinement, which is 2 years away. The reduction in die size will cause a lot of heat issues that need to be worked out.