Enthusiast grade cpus

[A guy on the wifi]

Is lga 2066 going to be replaced with intels eight series of cpus? And will there be an enthusiast grade i5?

 

[jaslion]

Is lga 2066 going to be replaced with intels eight series of cpus? And will there be an enthusiast grade i5?

The enthousiast grade i5 we have now is the 7640x which is an exact copy of the 7600k but runs hotter (so a worse copy). The nromal i5's and i7's were never meant to exist on the xx99 platform but where pretty much just thrown on there because of trying to make people buy x299 thinking those were better (which they are not).

 

[bjornl]

Is lga 2066 going to be replaced with intels eight series of cpus? And will there be an enthusiast grade i5?

I would not buy a lga2066 platform unless I had a specific need only served by the higher core count models. The mid-tier enthusiast models are all very poor performers on that platform. When you compare the perofmance and price of the CPU and MB the coffeelake platform is just the obvious choice. Coffeelake is both faster and cheaper.
The x299 platform works so poorly that I wonder if they did something fundamentally wrong and a bios update might someday bring it at least to parity with the older stuff.

 

[Viking2121]

Back when I bought my x99 system, I wanted and needed 6 cores and 12 threads, I could use an 8 core but wasn't paying the price they wanted, and AMD all they had was the FX stuff. The only platform to get a good performing 6 core was the x99, at the time there were no main stream CPU's that offered 6 or 8 cores.

Now that AMD and Intel both have main stream 6 and 8 cores that perform well, x299 seems vary poor decision for gaming or even video editing in many cases. I would avoid x299 unless your in need of something that x299 supports, All round good performer would be the i5 8600k, $300 USD, and 6 cores which would easily perform the same as the 8700k in games and will still do vary well in video rendering and editing.

Just gaming and light video rendering, the 6700k or the 7700k is still a vary good option if you can find for a decent price that is, Don't go and spend $300+ on a 7700k when that i5 is $300 if you know what I mean.