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mrhankey946
I'm thinking coffee lake and z370 is my best bet if everything shapes out to be what it's looking like from leaks. I'm anxious to see what Intel releases on Monday about coffee lake and I think z370. 

Coffee Lake will be logic choice of all smart gamers.
What gamers need more than GTX1080 and Coffee Lake.
Together they could fit easy in small case as EVGA Hadron and don't even need ATX PSU.
AMD RX Vega 64 need more power than whole RIG.
 
We can say that Intel fail to launch nice successor of X79 and X99 platform and hurry and made some mistakes as number of PCI-E lanes, prices and flux solder. Except that they don't have successor compatible with same socket because Kaby Lake-X is launched with 4 cores. That probably mean shorter life time than X79 and X99 before new architecture.
Coffee Lake-X could be launched 12 months after 8th generation show up before Cannon Lake.
I don't know how many people who are gamers on first place will pay 1000$ for CPU.
If some gamers think to do that It would be nice to have watercooling, because overclocked i9-7900X could give nice performance in games. But he is expensive and generally slower than competition for same price. Example overclocked to 4.6-4.7 GHz could be looked as nice gaming CPU, single threaded performance in Geekbench over 6.000, but ultra expensive, his price should be half, they are far weaker in Cinebench and real work than AMD, and paying 1000$ for weaker CPU is hard.
Someone to give me to choose between AMD 1950X and i9-7900X... I don't know... really. 
 

mrhankey946
Yah I was thinking of x299 for a while and it sounds great with possibly having 18 cores. After thinking about it though it's just not financially or realistically worth it unless you're using it heavily for a workstation. Mainly for the price but the performance for just doing rather simpler tasks and gaming won't see much of a usable benefit. 6 cores for what seems to be around $300-$400 and good performance thats great. I believe that rumors for z370 have 28 pci lanes? Which would be fine with me having full access to a GPU and adding m.2.

PietroBR

mrhankey946
Yah I was thinking of x299 for a while and it sounds great with possibly having 18 cores. After thinking about it though it's just not financially or realistically worth it unless you're using it heavily for a workstation. Mainly for the price but the performance for just doing rather simpler tasks and gaming won't see much of a usable benefit. 6 cores for what seems to be around $300-$400 and good performance thats great. I believe that rumors for z370 have 28 pci lanes? Which would be fine with me having full access to a GPU and adding m.2.

That's exactly what I think.
Since I'm not going to do any real heavy work for the CPU, 6 cores 12 threads makes more sense for a new build for gaming only.
One thing I will not be surprised for, is that 8700K hardly will outperform the 7700K, because of the slower clock. But still, even a coffee lake I5 will be faster then my I7 3820 .

Also, the z270 platform have pretty decent features, so, the only thing I would ask for the manufacturers is to add a dual slot m.2, even at an ITX MB.
 
It is said that the 8700K will come with 24 PCIe lanes - http://wccftech.com/intel-coffee-lake-8th-gen-cpu-300-series-platform-details-leak/ - For my build, since I don't plan to SLI, it's perfect (16x GPU / 4+4 dual m.2 Raid0 [Hell, even if you SLI, you would lose only 2/3% performance using 8+8x on GPU, and would still have lanes to use 8 other spare pcie lanes]).

PietroBR
 
 
Performance would be less than 5% on x8 (It's not that much). 
Let's see what Intel will say at monday, 21. Hope we will be having full specs about the Coffee Lake and also ETA for these hitting the market.

mrhankey946

PietroBR
 
Performance would be less than 5% on x8 (It's not that much). 
Let's see what Intel will say at monday, 21. Hope we will be having full specs about the Coffee Lake and also ETA for these hitting the market.

Maybe I'll think about SLI down the road then, hmmm . Yah i'm really optimistic for what gets released on monday. Hopefully good news!

SuperITMan
same X58 user,
I can't decide between 1950x or 7900x.
I do like the EVGA X299 Dark a lot, but Intel is weak right now.

HALO280
Finally finished my build a couple of days ago.Working out so far 7820x does get a little warm but I have it overclocked 4.8Ghz at 1.275v on one 360mm rad with a GTX 1080 on the loop too.I might add a 120mm RAD on the back.