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- Jan 12, 2001
- Location
- Kansas, USA
My sweet Sandy Bridge system has lasted almost 7 years. Reckon it's time for me to crawl out of my cave and gather up components for an overhaul.
Skylake and Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake... OH MY!
Guess I need to catch up with what's going on. So, all of the above are 14nm technology, right? Cannonlake (or something like that) will usher in the 10nm process, but apparently that is still way off in the future.
What to get for my future build?
Please, do not post about Ryzen or Threadripper. Yeah, AMD finally/again has some nice CPUs available. But, this is the Intel CPU section, right?
I like what I see from Kaby Lake, the 7700K and z270 chipset seems to be the ticket. However... I'm in no hurry. What about the supposedly soon to be released Coffee Lake? My limited understanding is this will be based on Kaby Lake, but further improved, refined, and optimized. Coffee Lake will probably be released in September (that's my prediction after reading 4-1/2 tech articles and looking at the tea leaves in my cup). Perhaps I'll plan to be an early adopter of an i7-8700K (unlocked 6-core/12-thread chip with 12MB of L3 cache and a 95W TDP). If it's a step up from the Kaby Lake, logic suggests it should be a good overclocker.
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Skylake and Kaby Lake and Coffee Lake... OH MY!
Guess I need to catch up with what's going on. So, all of the above are 14nm technology, right? Cannonlake (or something like that) will usher in the 10nm process, but apparently that is still way off in the future.
What to get for my future build?
Please, do not post about Ryzen or Threadripper. Yeah, AMD finally/again has some nice CPUs available. But, this is the Intel CPU section, right?
I like what I see from Kaby Lake, the 7700K and z270 chipset seems to be the ticket. However... I'm in no hurry. What about the supposedly soon to be released Coffee Lake? My limited understanding is this will be based on Kaby Lake, but further improved, refined, and optimized. Coffee Lake will probably be released in September (that's my prediction after reading 4-1/2 tech articles and looking at the tea leaves in my cup). Perhaps I'll plan to be an early adopter of an i7-8700K (unlocked 6-core/12-thread chip with 12MB of L3 cache and a 95W TDP). If it's a step up from the Kaby Lake, logic suggests it should be a good overclocker.
Comment?