Position of a 6700k in current market and after six months?

[ithehappy]

Hey guys you can see my rig in my signature, now I bought it about a year ago (except the GPU, which is almost two years old now), for the sole purpose of gaming. Then this January my father passed away and since then until now I have not done gaming for more than 10-12 hours maybe due to my psychological condition, so basically the system is completely unused in that sense. Anyway, now I am going out of country for about six seven months, and there is the main question, when I come back, maybe early next year or something, will a 6700k be in any position where the latest titles could be played well? Obviously the main thing to even think something like that is the release of them Ryzen chips. Now I am completely out of touch with the reviews but just seeing the glimpse of some reviews tell me that they offer some exceptional value to performance ratio.

So my simply question is, will I be better off to sell my rig and, (because current selling price is still decent, not sure what will happen to resale value after six months) then buy a latest one in first quarter of next year when I come back? What all them Intel and AMD CPUs are upcoming in next six months, and how much better will they be in comparison with a 6700k?

My main purpose of the system remains gaming. Now obviously I would like to have more cores and more threads but IF those are utilised in gaming. That and as power efficient as the system can be, that's very important to me too.

Thanks in advance.

 

[IEC]

Well, considering that in the interim Kaby Lake (7700K) and Skylake-X (e.g. 7740X, 7800X) have launched as well as Ryzen, and now the next gen Intel Coffee Lake 6-core chips are launching next month (e.g. 8700K)... you might be better served getting as much money as you can for your current system and revisit in seven months or a year or whenever you are ready to revisit. It's a fairly safe bet Coffee Lake will offer 50% more cores *and* more performance per core versus your 6700K.

As it is, you are just losing money to depreciation without using your 6700K system. It's a good time to sell right now IMO what with inflated graphics card prices and high demand for second-hand PC parts.

 

[coercitiv]

If you can get a good price now, sell. The reason is by the time you get back next year your i7 will be equal or even slower in games than a new gen i5. The number of cores in Intel chips will be increased from 4 to 6. This will also reflect in the resell value of your CPU.

Just make sure you get a good price for your current hardware.

 

[moonbogg]

Any title for the next several years (and likely longer) will certainly be played well on a 6700K. The newer 7700K has the same performance clock for clock and the new 6 core coffee lake won't be any better, it will just have two more cores. If you must have the absolute best CPU performance, then yeah, you need to always buy the latest one released. Buy seriously, you won't notice hardly any difference at all. If you are concerned with games running at their best, a 6700K is still top tier and will continue to be for good while. 6 months into the future is nothing where CPU performance is concerned, lol.

 

[bigboxes]

Unless you have a hole burning in your pocket, you'd be wasting your money. You are right in the sweet spot. Intel is not advancing at that fast of pace these days. You're going to be fine for at least a couple of years.

 

[Hendrickson]

I think now would be the best time to unload your current rig. With Coffee Lake coming out in the near future, the resell price for a 6700k is going to tank (probably). Worst case, you should be able to buy a used similarly spec'ed 7700k system in 6-7 months for the same price, or cheaper than you sell your 6700k system for now. Best case, you would be able to replace your current rig with a coffee lake, or Zen+ system with updated graphics for only a couple hundred (or less) over what you sold your current system for.

That being said, I don't think you are going to have to worry too much about the 6700k not keeping up in gaming. It should be fine for a couple more years. A 6600k or 7600k I'd be worried about though.

 

[ithehappy]

Well, considering that in the interim Kaby Lake (7700K) and Skylake-X (e.g. 7740X, 7800X) have launched as well as Ryzen, and now the next gen Intel Coffee Lake 6-core chips are launching next month (e.g. 8700K)... you might be better served getting as much money as you can for your current system and revisit in seven months or a year or whenever you are ready to revisit. It's a fairly safe bet Coffee Lake will offer 50% more cores *and* more performance per core versus your 6700K.

As it is, you are just losing money to depreciation without using your 6700K system. It's a good time to sell right now IMO what with inflated graphics card prices and high demand for second-hand PC parts.

Thanks.

Well if this is anywhere near true, that a Coffee Lake will offer 50% more performance per core over my Skylake 6700k, then I won't even hesitate a moment before selling my rig off.

 

[IEC]

Thanks.

Well if this is anywhere near true, that a Coffee Lake will offer 50% more performance per core over my Skylake 6700k, then I won't even hesitate a moment before selling my rig off.

50% more performance due to # of cores in multi-threaded tasks.
BUT it will likely also have slightly higher turbo speeds meaning you will get more performance even when all the cores are not being used. It won't be a huge difference (certainly not 50%!), but it's something.

Sorry if that wasn't clear.

 

[PeterScott]

Thanks.

Well if this is anywhere near true, that a Coffee Lake will offer 50% more performance per core over my Skylake 6700k, then I won't even hesitate a moment before selling my rig off.

For gaming. Upgrading your CPU to Coffee lake will almost certainly be completely irrelevant.

 

[ddogg]

If you're not going to be using your PC definitely unload it now while it's worth something. When 2018 rolls around you can then see if upgrading to something else would make more sense for your usage.

 

[PeterScott]

If you're not going to be using your PC definitely unload it now while it's worth something. When 2018 rolls around you can then see if upgrading to something else would make more sense for your usage.

It only makes sense to sell it now, if you are intent to selling in the next year regardless.

You could use that same system for 4 more years of gaming just upgrading to a new GPU later down the road. That would be the most economical solution.

 

[ithehappy]

I just made a little calculation and I will lose about 20% of the total purchase value of the said rig. Just thought about putting it out.

 

[GaiaHunter]

Unless something extraordinary happens, that 6700K OC to 4.5-4.6GHz will last another 3 generations of GPUs.

 

[bigboxes]

If you're upgrading Sandy Bridge, then yes, a new CPU is in order. 6700K? No way.

 

[frozentundra123456]

Thanks.

Well if this is anywhere near true, that a Coffee Lake will offer 50% more performance per core over my Skylake 6700k, then I won't even hesitate a moment before selling my rig off.

Coffee Lake will be the same architecture as skylake, therefore offering essentially no improvements *per core* compared to Skylake. It will offer maybe 50% more total performance in workloads that scale perfectly with the number of cores, assuming it clocks as high as the quad core chips. This will not be true in gaming. Nobody really knows how future games will scale with cores, but my guess is 20% or less faster than 6700k in gaming.
I agree with bigboxes and others: If gaming is your primary purpose, keep the 6700k system.

 

[CHADBOGA]

I just made a little calculation and I will lose about 20% of the total purchase value of the said rig. Just thought about putting it out.

I am amazed that you would only lose 20% of your purchase price, if you sold your computer now.

I figured you would lose probably 50%.

So if it is truly just 20%, then I would sell immediately.

 

[ithehappy]

LoL I will lose almost nothing on the memory kits, as the price has almost doubled since when I bought it. The CPU too hasn't decreased price that much at all even when 7700k is around. That Z170 motherboard is where I will lose a lot, more than 30% probably, and the cooler is holding its price as well!

So it kinda amazes me how would you think a less than one year old system will decrease 50% in value!

 

[coercitiv]

So it kinda amazes me how would you think a less than one year old system will decrease 50% in value!

Just wait and see what will happen to resell value for a 7700K system in Q1 2018.

 

[happy medium]

You may be able to pop a 6 core coffee lake in your current board.

 

[JimKiler]

With Threadripper and Zen 2 coming out the value of intel products will continue to decline faster than it had prior to 2017.

 

[ithehappy]

You may be able to pop a 6 core coffee lake in your current board.

Really? This is possible?

 

[TemjinGold]

Really? This is possible?

HIGHLY doubt that. If you had a Z270, MAYBE but a Z170? No way.

 

[ddogg]

Extremely unlikely it will be compatible with your existing z170 board.

 

[CHADBOGA]

LoL I will lose almost nothing on the memory kits, as the price has almost doubled since when I bought it. The CPU too hasn't decreased price that much at all even when 7700k is around. That Z170 motherboard is where I will lose a lot, more than 30% probably, and the cooler is holding its price as well!

So it kinda amazes me how would you think a less than one year old system will decrease 50% in value!

I am loathe to buy 2nd hand equipment for most things and especially electronic things, so unless a very large discount is on offer, I just wouldn't consider buying a 2nd hand computer from someone I don't know.

 

[IntelUser2000]

I bought my 2600K for $330 + tax in Canadian dollars.

The CPU still sells on Craigslist for $180-200. Your 6700K will probably last 10 years before it even reaches $300.