You have zero need to buy a new processor.. 2500K is not a bottleneck at all.. and the CPU's for only gaming are side grades if anything especially vs your CPU overclocked.
WAIT FOR COFFEE LAKE. 3 months is absolutely nothing compared with how long a modern CPU lasts you. Just wait.
Why? It's not likely in his price range and, more importantly, not better value than a $250 1600x. And by the time it comes out, we'll be telling him to wait for Zen+, since that will be right around the corner.
Hmmm,didn't we see that especially with a lot of threads the fabric causes more trouble/slowdown?This is really a short term or long term question.
If short term get a 7700k, will likely be fine for 1-3 years, till game engines make the switch to being DX12 based not DX9-11 based. Its dead end platform but thats irrelivent for short term solution.
So future upgrade with a more modern CPUs should not be taken for granted for either platform.
QFT. If money is a big concern then my recommendation is Ryzen. You'll be able to upgrade it whenever using the same motherboard. You'll have to purchase a new motherboard when upgrading to a new processor if you buy intel later on down the road.Intel Core i7-7700K uses LGA1151 socket while Ryzen is AM4 so LGA 1151 socket is a dead socket and You can not upgrade to new CPU, while AM4 socket has 4 years lifespan.
LGA 1151 supports up to 4 cores/8 threads but AM4 up to 8 Cores/16 threads.It's possible to have a new CPU Zen+ and feature 8 cores with a high clock.It's depend on your future.
Um, AMD said they were supporting AM4 until 2020 with Zen+ and possibly Zen++ too.
Um, AMD said they were supporting AM4 until 2020 with Zen+ and possibly Zen++ too.
What single-player games would do high refresh-rates at 1080p on a RX 480?To the OP, you should also tell us what monitor you have. A high refresh rate monitor (ie 144-165Hz) requires a powerful CPU to hit those framerates, so if you want to game at high framerates, then the 7700K would definitely be more ideal. Also might be worth waiting for Coffee Lake, which is supposed to arrive in a few months.
What single-player games would do high refresh-rates at 1080p on a RX 480?
AMD supporting it is very, very different than motherboard vendors supporting their old boards.
But then AMD has declared future support for sockets only to cancel it later.
Socket compatibility is a red herring. Motherboard compatibility is the real issue, and nobody guarantees that. And even if they did, a guarantee isn't a warranty. Find a motherboard maker that warrants their current motherboards will fully support AMD (or Intel) CPUs released in 2020.
Hmmm,didn't we see that especially with a lot of threads the fabric causes more trouble/slowdown?
Ashes was like one of the things that ran the worst and had to be fixed by the devs,not many devs are going to go through that kind of trouble WD2 was tooted as one of the things that would boost ryzen sales since it would obliterate the i7 but we are still waiting on that one....
Because a modern CPU will last you a decade, and waiting 3 months is next to no time at all compared to the useful lifespan of the product.
Or we could all just be emotional children and run out and buy the first thing because delaying gratification is hard and buying stuff now is fun
Well thanks for calling me a child. Do you feel better about yourself now?
So Aots was running badly until they fixed it,so it wasn't due to the fabric but some other problem,how is this lying? They still had to fix performance for aots and they still did not fix performance for wd2,if peoples argument is that future dx12 games will run better on ryzen then there should be at least a little bit of evidence supporting this,wd2 scales up to 8c/16t on intel that's why people where saying that ryzen would blow the i7s away,still we only see the ryzen be on par with i7, I'm repeating myself on a game that scales very well on 8c/16t.Why is it that every time you speak about Ryzen you basically lie?
The issues with aots had nothing to do with fabric at all, it was about behaviour difference between Intel and amd on certian non temporal instructions.
It's unlikely for games devs to patch something that is running well, even if it could run better.
1600X is the gaming CPU.
Faster clocks than the 1700 or 1700X.
2 more cores and 4 more threads than 7700.
Cheaper than both.
You were claiming to know the cause, and that cause had major implications. It turns out you knew little or nothing about the cause. Pretending to know something is a lie at best (the other option is worse imho).So Aots was running badly until they fixed it,so it wasn't due to the fabric but some other problem,how is this lying?
But then AMD has declared future support for sockets only to cancel it later.
Socket compatibility is a red herring.
"Hmmm,didn't we see " does not indicate any knowledge, I wasn't claiming to know the cause,fabric was talked about as the cause for mayor performance issues in the same time frame aots bad performance was talked about,I'm sure most people (that don't go over each review with a magnifying glass) wouldn't make a distinction or wouldn't even care if the performance drop comes from one problem or the other,the important thing is that ryzen has problems that devs will have to code around and that is something that only happens very rarely.You were claiming to know the cause,