Help me resolve this dilemma.

[Super Nade]

Hi guys,

I am looking for suggestions, comments and questions regarding my upgrade path. I'll make a few statements, present a few questions/scenarios and OCF can help me decide.

Current situation:
I would like to upgrade my current Haswell platform. I am using this rig to run MATLAB, compile LabVIEW FPGA code and a occasional session or two of gaming (FO4, Witcher 3 etc). I am not unhappy with my current setup. The CPU has an average overclock (4670k @ 4.6 GHz) has been delidded and thus runs cool, plenty of RAM (32 Gb) and no hiccups with the GTX-SLI setup. Perhaps I can ride this out a few more years, but sometimes you get that itch...you guys know what I'm talking about.

Upgrade paths

1. Ryzen 1700 platform + M.2 SSD + liquid cooling (?)
2. Wait to see what Coffeelake brings to the table, only because it is slated to be out in less than a month. liquid cooling (?) + M.2 SSD.
3. Threadripper platform + M.2 SSD + quad ch DDR4 + liquid cooling (?)
4. Intel Dual Xeon Server platform (ebay an older generation setup)

Complication
I have an LGA 1151 Maximus Hero VIII (Z170) in hand, with no other matching components. Should I:

1. Buy a Celeron, one stick of DDR4, test it and sell the board + CPU + RAM.
2. Buy a Celeron, 16 Gb DDR4, M.2 SSD + Liquid cooling (basically everything I plan to upgrade), test and sell board + cpu.
3. Get the cheapest K CPU I can find and blow this thing up.
4. Go all in. This is my upgrade platform.

Costs:
I'd like to keep upgrade costs to sub $1k.

They say a fool and his money are soon parted. Am I destined to be that fool?

PS: I also have a couple of LGA775 CPUs on hand that definitely need to be blown up (anybody have a MB laying around I could destroy? )

 

[Tír na nÓg]

I'd wait for Coffee Lake, it is 2 weeks away...

Why not just sell the z170 mobo? Without buying anything extra?

 

[Super Nade]

I'd wait for Coffee Lake, it is 2 weeks away...

Why not just sell the z170 mobo? Without buying anything extra?

I could do that as it was purchased in store exactly one day ago (open box). I've never sold anything I have not personally tested, hence I was on auto-pilot mode.

 

[Tír na nÓg]

I could do that as it was purchased in store exactly one day ago (open box). I've never sold anything I have not personally tested, hence I was on auto-pilot mode.

I am sure if you sell it on the OCF, making clear it is open box not tested, but supposed working, it should not be an issue

Bought quite a few Open boxes myself and never ran into any problem.

 

[Super Nade]

I am sure if you sell it on the OCF, making clear it is open box not tested, but supposed working, it should not be an issue

Bought quite a few Open boxes myself and never ran into any problem.

I'll see if I can find an LGA 1151 in the lab somewhere (we have an incredible amount of junk!) before I go that route.

 

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Does your haswell struggle with the current work load ?

Do those programs like multi cores or strong single core ?