Should i upgrade to an i5 7500 or wait?

[omagi55]

Hi, Just build a cpu a few weeks ago. I mainly play League of Legends and PUBG. My CPU is

G4600
Asrock b250 pro4
Galax GTX1060 6gb exoc white
Crucial Ballistix sport 2x8gb 2666mhz
Samsung 850 evo 250gb
WD blue 1tb
Seasonic m12II 520w bronze

Should i upgrade to an i5 7500 now or wait for the budget mobos for coffeelake and sell my g4600+arock b250 and buy i3 8100/i5 8400+b370 board? Which would be the best choice and good for my wallet?

 

[InvalidError]

I wouldn't bother with a platform upgrade until the post-Meltdown/Spectre chips launch. Get the i5-7500/7600 for now, upgrade to Icelake or whatever has the hardware fixes later.

 

[smorizio]

your better off going with the i5 cpu and selling the old cpu or using it as a back up. i would use your rig with the i5 upgrade till it failed. coffee lake was a stop gap/nee jurk from intel. as a tech i tell people liek you not do jump on cofee lake cpu as the next cpu that dropping soon may not work on cofee lake cpu. intel lost points when the older x200 chipset and coffee lake cpu wont run. there ben a lot of people that got burnt by buying parts a few days before the nda dropped thinking the old mb would work. in real life work the newer cpu are not much faster then the old ones. but your paying $$$ for intel newest cpu. i would use your rig for a few years then swap if the games are killing the cpu.

 

[omagi55]

your better off going with the i5 cpu and selling the old cpu or using it as a back up. i would use your rig with the i5 upgrade till it failed. coffee lake was a stop gap/nee jurk from intel. as a tech i tell people liek you not do jump on cofee lake cpu as the next cpu that dropping soon may not work on cofee lake cpu. intel lost points when the older x200 chipset and coffee lake cpu wont run. there ben a lot of people that got burnt by buying parts a few days before the nda dropped thinking the old mb would work. in real life work the newer cpu are not much faster then the old ones. but your paying $$$ for intel newest cpu. i would use your rig for a few years then swap if the games are killing the cpu.

Okay sir ill go with the i5 7500.

 

[omagi55]

I wouldn't bother with a platform upgrade until the post-Meltdown/Spectre chips launch. Get the i5-7500/7600 for now, upgrade to Icelake or whatever has the hardware fixes later.

What do you mean by meltdown? The coffee lake has problems?

 

[InvalidError]

The Meltdown and Spectre security bugs that have been covered extensively by the tech press throughout most of January.

 

[Sithtiger]

Well I'm not sure if Intel will be releasing a new CPU anytime soon, but they will be releasing a new chipset, the Z390. The main advantage the Z390 has over the Z370 is it can accommodate an 8-core CPU. The Z370 can only support a 6-core. Then AMD should be releasing Zen+ soon. We're hearing March 2018, but it's just a refresh. The big change will be Zen2, but that won't get released until 2019.

If you can, I'd wait and see if Intel will be releasing some new CPU's soon. You'd think if they're releasing a new chipset, some new CPU's would follow. If they do, I'm not so sure it will include a hardware fix for meltdown and spectre, the two vunerabilities that are supposed to be patched now via Windows update, but of the two AMD is safer. Someone has to physically be at the computer to use those exploits, while with Intel, they can use them remotely.

I really wouldn't wait until Zen2 next year because there is always going to be new CPU's released every year, sometimes twice a year, but right now a new release is close, so it's worth waiting a few weeks to see what's going to drop. Who knows, Zen+ may have this massive increase in clock speed, which most games respond too and maybe it turns out to beat Intel in gaming. I have to admit, I've used Intel for a loooong time. The last AMD CPU I had was the Athlon XP 2500+. AMD CPU's were always great, but I always pick who's faster at gaming, since I'm a gamer and Intel has dominated for so long.

With a 1060,I think a CPU makes more of a difference. When you have a faster GPU like a 1070 or above, gaming at 1440P pretty much makes any modern processor run about the same. If you have a 1070, an i7 2600K runs the same framerate as an i7 8700k if you're using a resolution of 1440P or 4K. The GPU is the bottleneck in most games now. The lower the resolution though, the more the CPU matters.