Intel 8th gen (Coffee Lake) Core processors unveiled

[j.o.s.h.1408]

I have not OC since maybe the 3rd gen of the i7's.

It was a lot of flaffing around and my time these days are extremely limited now.

i work 9-5, go gym after work and then i relax with the missus. On weekends i am socalising and doing photography.

So i dont have time to maintain OCed computer these days and also the likes of LR/photoshop and the games i play(PCARS2,PES,SQUAD) already run past 60fps

[bitbucket]

I ran an overclocked 2600K bundle from the 3XS guys at Scan for around 5 years before it started to become unstable last year. It's back at stock frequency now - poor thing must've just had enough.

[The Hand]

This sounds pretty appealing tbh. A minor drop would twist my arm further. Maybe it could slightly speed up development on Ryzen +/2 too. That's what I'm currently waiting for. Had such amazing bang for buck from a 2600k, being the 2nd gen Intel part (bought in March '11) that I'm still sat on it 6+ years later with no particularly worthwhile upgrade path.

Would be tempted with this but... I think I'd rather go with AMD's 2nd round as the CPU wars are back on.

Yes it's been a while! If there is a Ryzen price cut then I might be tempted by a Ryzen 5 1600 in the £150-160 range or the Ryzen 5 1400 if it ends up around the £130 mark, but I'd most likely get the 1600 for extra cores and L3 cache. I doubt i can wait for Ryzen 2 but you never know!.. I might hold out if there's no significant price cut for ryzen this year.

[elites2012]

again and again. why is intel still pushing a quad core as a high end chip? make 6 cores and 8 cores with 4 megs of l3 cache. sell it in the same spot you put the stupid i7 quad core. its not that hard.

[scaryjim]

... why is intel still pushing a quad core as a high end chip? ...

Erm ... they're not? The only quad cores in this announcement are the i3s, which are *not* high end chips. The i5 and i7 are 6 core. There is no quad core i7.

Did you even read the article?