I9 9900k/i7 9700k or i7 8700k

[siremilrahbek]

Hey folks.
I resently sold my i5 6600 with some other stuff expecting to upgrade when the 9th Gen Intel chips released. (which I thought was September 1st. Not October..) now the question is? Should I wait for October and watch the price fall of the i7 8700k or pay more and get the 9th Gen. My budget is only capable of the pricerange of the i7 8700k. Is it worth to wait and see the change in price? Or?

 

[Lutfij]

I'd always suggest that you wait, since it's too close to the release date. Given what we've seen in the past, chances are that the 7th and 8th gen might get phased out in favor of the 9000 series of processors from Intel.

 

[sizzling]

As for price drop there might not be much. At the moment the 8700k can be had for £300 while the 7700k for £270.

If you can wait I would but I also don’t think the 8700k price will drop steeply.

 

[siremilrahbek]

Hmm. That's what I'm scared of will happen. I don't want to wait a month without a working pc just for a 10$ price fall

 

[sizzling]

If you wait you get the option of 9th gen. Intel mixed it up with 8th gen being a big step up over 7th gen. 9th gen is looking to be another big mix up of cores and threads, how that translates performance we don’t know.

Looking back the i7 7700k is slightly outperformed by the i5 8600k. Will we see such an improvement next time, who knows?

 

[mdd1963]

There likely will be no significant price drops soon on 8700K's, so, that wait could be quite excessive...if we use the 7700K's price drops the last 12 months as guides to future behavior...

 

[Globespy]

I decided to buy the 8086k since there was a good deal on Amazon for $35 more than the 8700k.
I'm going to run on an AsRock Taichi and should get at least 5.1-5.3 on water cooling.

We know that the i7 9700k is 8C/8T and there's literally a couple of games that can truly take advantage of more than 4 cores, let alone 6 or 8!
Plus quite a lot of games still benefit from HT, so makes the decision between 8700k/8086k and the 9700k much easier.

Assuming my 8086k is a well binned chip and I can sit at 5.1-5.3 on all cores, I truly don't see how the 9700k or even the 9900k could offer much more than a modest improvement.
It's not a different CPU architecture, it's just soldered coffee lake so for gaming any benefits over a nicely binned 8700k/8086k are not worth the extra money, and if you already have this chip, certainly not worth the upgrade if you use your PC mostly for gaming.

If you have other things you do, streaming or video production then sure, the 9700/9900 will be a good option, but if you are like me and 99% gaming, there's likely no value for the additional cost that intel will of course charge.

Cheers.

 

[mdd1963]

I don't think the 8700K is going to fall much, truthfully, as the 9900K will be $500, 9700K at $400, and no real reason for 8700K prices to fall much...