Intel 6-core Coffee Lake Processors Launch October 5th

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Emille

2017-09-07 10:53

Nice. I can't wait to see how these are for gaming.

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Cbotha15

2017-09-07 11:06

Hmmm can you smell that..I smell a possible upgrade coming for my current i5 rig

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Angantyr

2017-09-07 11:26

Think there will be any reviews of the Coffee Lake processors before launch?

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BLEH!

2017-09-07 12:07

Just wait for WCCF to post something...

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Silva

2017-09-07 12:41

Although I wouldn't buy from Intel again, I'm curious to see their reaction to Ryzen.

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heffeque

2017-09-07 12:58

Looks like i5-8400 is a very fine CPU. I appreciate what Intel is doing in response to AMD. Though personally I'll go Raven Ridge as soon as possible (different segment, I know).

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JamesSneed

2017-09-07 13:45

I wonder though if most people who wanted a few more cores already bought into Intel's HEDT or AMD Ryzen. Seems like this round of sales may be muted a bit. Pretty awesome 6 cores is here in the consumer CPU space from Intel, these should be wonderfull CPU's.. The 10 year old q6600 vs the 7700k the difference is smaller than I expected. Was just curious thinking back of how little things progressed in CPU's over the last decade. If you go back another decade from 2007 to 1997 if you pick the best consumer Intel CPU's you would be comparing 300 MHz Pentium II(single core cpu) to the Q6600 (quad core). http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core2-Quad-Q6600-vs-Intel-Core-i7-7700K/1980vs3647

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Shaq34

2017-09-07 14:09

Pricing will be really interesting here. Will AMD drop prices to counter?

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Emille

2017-09-07 14:12

JamesSneed:

I wonder though if most people who wanted a few more cores already bought into Intel's HEDT or AMD Ryzen. Seems like this round of sales may be muted a bit. Pretty awesome 6 cores is here in the consumer CPU space from Intel, these should be wonderfull CPU's.. The 10 year old q6600 vs the 7700k the difference is smaller than I expected. Was just curious thinking back of how little things progressed in CPU's over the last decade. If you go back another decade from 2007 to 1997 if you pick the best consumer Intel CPU's you would be comparing 300 MHz Pentium II(single core cpu) to the Q6600 (quad core). http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core2-Quad-Q6600-vs-Intel-Core-i7-7700K/1980vs3647

Synthetic benches are meaningless. I had a q9450 which was better than a q6600 and when I upgraded to my earliest i7...the i7-870, my framerate in dragon age at the time went from 20 frames in the city to 60, the same same gpu, whatever was the highest at the time, maybe a gtx 280. There are some games like farcry 2 that had absurd frame rate increases with cpus witb hyperthreading, so I imaging there are a lot more games like that these days, and that's not even getting into the ancient pci and ram specs that you would be stuck with on the q6600 platform.

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airbud7

2017-09-07 14:29

JamesSneed:

The 10 year old q6600 vs the 7700k the difference is smaller than I expected. http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core2-Quad-Q6600-vs-Intel-Core-i7-7700K/1980vs3647

You're Kidding... Right? How the heck my post got a link^???

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Ryu5uzaku

2017-09-07 14:44

No clue how your post is a link lol. Also Q6600 vs 7700k in gaming according to user benchmark 73% difference not much ay others being 73% and 83% difference mmm nom. I expect this to be roughly equal to 7700k in gaming and possibly overclocked 7800x and 6850k (if all of these have similar clocks) that is about it.

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nz3777

2017-09-07 15:04

Ah at $400 usd for top=model I do not see them selling to well to be honest,They need to be in the $250 range in my opinion.

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airbud7

2017-09-07 15:15

nz3777:

Ah at $400 usd for top=model I do not see them selling to well to be honest,They need to be in the $250 range in my opinion.

$250^....Loool........8700k for $250/....its gonna be the fastest gaming processor out the box.

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Ricepudding

2017-09-07 15:38

Silva:

Although I wouldn't buy from Intel again, I'm curious to see their reaction to Ryzen.

That's quite an odd statement to make. What happens if AMD goes under, would you still never buy from them? I think as a consumer you should leave all doors open and buy what best suites you at the time. Example, my friend was very unsure about AMD ryzen, and i showed him how they perform on par in gaming at 1440p in most games and that it was a better and cheaper alternative right now from Intel. He would have most likely never gone for AMD but i showed him he should leave his options open as both intel and AMD seem to be producing good processors right now. it just depends on what you want it for.

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D3M1G0D

2017-09-07 16:53

Ricepudding:

That's quite an odd statement to make. What happens if AMD goes under, would you still never buy from them? I think as a consumer you should leave all doors open and buy what best suites you at the time. Example, my friend was very unsure about AMD ryzen, and i showed him how they perform on par in gaming at 1440p in most games and that it was a better and cheaper alternative right now from Intel. He would have most likely never gone for AMD but i showed him he should leave his options open as both intel and AMD seem to be producing good processors right now. it just depends on what you want it for.

Yup, a true enthusiast knows no brand loyalty. You should always get the best product for you and your particular needs, at a price that you're most comfortable with. Coffee Lake will probably make great gaming processors, but I think most of the benefits will be for those who can make use of those extra cores. Streamers, small-time content creators, or anyone needing a boost to multicore tasks. For someone who just plays games and has a 7700K or equivalent, it probably won't be worth upgrading.

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Emille

2017-09-07 17:24

D3M1G0D:

Yup, a true enthusiast knows no brand loyalty. You should always get the best product for you and your particular needs, at a price that you're most comfortable with. Coffee Lake will probably make great gaming processors, but I think most of the benefits will be for those who can make use of those extra cores. Streamers, small-time content creators, or anyone needing a boost to multicore tasks. For someone who just plays games and has a 7700K or equivalent, it probably won't be worth upgrading.

This is quite possibly the most absurd statement I have ever read. So you mean to tell me......that someone with a cpu that is only 7 months old, and also the best gaming cpu you can buy, regardless of price, would likely not need to be upgraded for it's replacement for gaming. That is some profound revelation. In other news, people owning a ryzen 1800x would likely not need to upgrade to threadripper for light multitasking such as recording and gaming /s

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D3M1G0D

2017-09-07 17:42

Emille:

This is quite possibly the most absurd statement I have ever read. So you mean to tell me......that someone with a cpu that is only 7 months old, and also the best gaming cpu you can buy, regardless of price, would likely not need to be upgraded for it's replacement for gaming. That is some profound revelation. In other news, people owning a ryzen 1800x would likely not need to upgrade to threadripper for light multitasking such as recording and gaming /s

Yeah, I thought that statement was obvious, but I'm willing to bet a lot of Intel fans will upgrade anyway. There seems to be a lot of hype and excitement for Coffee Lake (much more than any other Intel chip of late) and I wouldn't be surprised if a gamer with a 6700K or 7700K dumps their system for CL (and justify it by saying that it's future-proofing).

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airbud7

2017-09-07 17:42

8700k will be my Christmas present/...I hope Lol

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nz3777

2017-09-07 18:00

Well when I compare Coffee-lake to Ryzen 400 vs 189 and both being 6/12 Thread I am perfectly fine with loosing a few fps and saving myself over $200 dollars for a high-end Motherboard, I do not want Intel to go under I was just saying the sales will suffer in my opinion unless they lower the prices to better compete with Amd. ( opinion)

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Emille

2017-09-07 18:09

D3M1G0D:

Yeah, I thought that statement was obvious, but I'm willing to bet a lot of Intel fans will upgrade anyway. There seems to be a lot of hype and excitement for Coffee Lake (much more than any other Intel chip of late) and I wouldn't be surprised if a gamer with a 6700K or 7700K dumps their system for CL (and justify it by saying that it's future-proofing).

You said 'it probably won't be worth upgrading', pc enthusiasts upgrade for all sorts of reasons, often qhen they don't need to. But whether enthusiasts will upgrade regardless is different to your comment that it wouldn't be 'worth' upgrading for gaming, which is the most obvious statement imaginable.

nz3777:

Well when I compare Coffee-lake to Ryzen 400 vs 189 and both being 6/12 Thread I am perfectly fine with loosing a few fps and saving myself over $200 dollars for a high-end Motherboard, I do not want Intel to go under I was just saying the sales will suffer in my opinion unless they lower the prices to better compete with Amd. ( opinion)

You are acting like ryzen is some kind of miracle. In aus the 1800x is $659 compared to the $459 price of the i7 7700k, an absolute rip off for gaming, and the amd 7900x is $799, the exact same price as the 7820x with the same number of cores and significantly higher overclocking potential and gamjng performance, plus the threadripper motherboards are way more expensive. The only thing amd has to offer is the budget ryzen cpus and they can't even compete with an i5 in gaming, so depending on what you are doing, they are either overpriced and poorly performing chips for gaming, or a good budget chip for everything but gaming.