Anybody regret their 7700k purchase?

Panmaster said:
But it's not. Just under 20% absolute and under 10% IPC over IvyBridge is rubbish. It hits 76C at stock under water so you need to add $50 for delidding and there's no guarantee it'll go beyond 4.5Ghz stock without being AVX unstable failing Prime95 and IBT.

Waiting for 6-core CoffeeLake or getting a 1080Ti if you don't already have one are far better investments than upgrading from a 3770K to 6800K or 7700K.
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That's your opinion. If a 20% overall increase doesn't do it for you, then great. I, for one, see a 20% jump as pretty stout.
 
I'd recommend micro center in OH if you are looking for a US store for pricing close to Buffalo. Its a good day trip, but worth it if buying a few parts for a system build. MC will usually beat out online pricing with walk in store only pricing which can add up to well more than the fuel cost if getting a CPU, MB, RAM and GPU. Take a 7700k, its $299 at MC. This beats out newegg and amazon, but not enough to justify driving costs from Buffalo. Add in maybe another $100 in savings from other parts like case, mobo, ram etc and you could have a build in your hands in a day.
 
dave343 said:
In the Toronto area, we have Canada Computers (CC), which I guess it equiv to your Fry's in California, we also have NCIX, which is like Canada Computers but only sell's pc parts, not all electronics. And then of course New Egg etc... but if you want to walk in a purchase a board and cpu, the places to go are CC and NCIX. Both of which ship across Canada, but isn't NCIX also in the US? Both retailers have 10+ locations across the greater Toronto area and Canada, mostly of course in the big cities. There are a handfull of small part retailers but generally I find the bottom barrel prices are at NCIX and CC.
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NCIX and CC are good and all but still sometimes they have limited selection, I find newegg has alot more choice.
 
psy81 said:
Its not stable until you run it through P95
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Well, it is 100% stable if it will do everything you need it to do every day without crashing when it comes to your personal machine.
 
dave343 said:
In the Toronto area, we have Canada Computers (CC), which I guess it equiv to your Fry's in California, we also have NCIX, which is like Canada Computers but only sell's pc parts, not all electronics. And then of course New Egg etc... but if you want to walk in a purchase a board and cpu, the places to go are CC and NCIX. Both of which ship across Canada, but isn't NCIX also in the US? Both retailers have 10+ locations across the greater Toronto area and Canada, mostly of course in the big cities. There are a handfull of small part retailers but generally I find the bottom barrel prices are at NCIX and CC.
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psy81 said:
NCIX and CC are good and all but still sometimes they have limited selection, I find newegg has alot more choice.
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Prior to the Ryzen launch, both Mike's Computer Shop and Newegg.ca's ebay page had the 7700K for $429.99 CAD - likely due to stock overflowing. I haven't seen it that low since.
 
To the guy saying you need to delid your 7700k to get over 4.5ghz. Uhhh.. BS. I'm at 4.6 on air not decided.
 
Mithan said:
Does anybody regret their 7700k purchase enlight of ryzen?
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Considering there was no way to know Ryzen would be as good as it is, I don't think anyone could regret it. Any time you buy hardware, within a couple years much better stuff will be out. That's just something you have to live with in this hobby.
 
Panmaster said:
But it's not. Just under 20% absolute and under 10% IPC over IvyBridge is rubbish. It hits 76C at stock under water so you need to add $50 for delidding and there's no guarantee it'll go beyond 4.5Ghz stock without being AVX unstable failing Prime95 and IBT.

Waiting for 6-core CoffeeLake or getting a 1080Ti if you don't already have one are far better investments than upgrading from a 3770K to 6800K or 7700K.
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There is never any guarantee on overclocking at all.

That being said my 7700K runs AVX @ 4.8 GHz on 1.24v. Without delid.
 
Slade said:
I'd recommend micro center in OH if you are looking for a US store for pricing close to Buffalo. Its a good day trip, but worth it if buying a few parts for a system build. MC will usually beat out online pricing with walk in store only pricing which can add up to well more than the fuel cost if getting a CPU, MB, RAM and GPU. Take a 7700k, its $299 at MC. This beats out newegg and amazon, but not enough to justify driving costs from Buffalo. Add in maybe another $100 in savings from other parts like case, mobo, ram etc and you could have a build in your hands in a day.
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Oh, and I agree with the recommendation, which is why I bought the Ryzen upgrade for both my systems at that very one. :) I bought my first one on the 2nd of March and my second one on the 10th of March. I would have tried a different board for the second build but, I just wanted to be sure it would work so I stuck with the Prime X370 Pro. I do not regret it at all because it was a fun trip, both times.

To those who bought the 7700K enjoy it until your next upgrade, whenever that may be.
 
Panmaster said:
CoffeeLake being released so soon threatens making the 7700K obsolete more than Ryzen. Ryzen is only good for dumbed-down console shooters and productivity.
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I double dog dare you to go say that in the AMD forum.
 
I wish I still lived in CA though as I had access to a Fry's there. If MC was within a few hr drive round trip, I'd would do that for my next build.
 
My only regret is getting a 4770k instead of a 4770. I really could use vt-d functionality...
 
Got 7700k only because I did not want to mess with teething problems or wasting time with odd issues with brand new arch/platform. Performance-wise did not care about differences between ryzen and KL. Basically more interested in motherboard/chipset features and having a more up-tp-date system vs previous (been on 3570k for 4 years).
 
Got a 7700k... don't regret it per se as it worked great out of the box and my AIO bolted on without trying to track down a bracket or backplate. Honestly don't do anything the extra cores would benefit from. I really want Ryzen to succeed though, I'd been buying AMD since the 486 days (no lie!). When the p4 Northwood came out I switched and never went back. Sigh...
 
I got my 7700k for a pure gaming machine. Runs at 5ghz with a Noctua 15 air cooled , with 32GB of Ram at 3600. With zero tinkering , zero dicking around with this ram wont boot , this ram will with one stick etc. And it's been this way since Jan.

Which Ryzen should have I bought that will let me achieve the above ?
 
psy81 said:
I got an infraction in the past for cursing. I think you should too... no one is above the law :p
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I curse all the time and never get infractions. It's when you Troll that Kyle burns you. Trust me I know.... right Kyle haha
 
Does anybody regret Mithan's decision to start this thread?
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Kyle's cursing almost saved this thread for me.. but alas time for me to..

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tangoseal said:
I curse all the time and never get infractions. It's when you Troll that Kyle burns you. Trust me I know.... right Kyle haha
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Same here, he also likes to give vacations when you pull the razor's edge on someone, I speak from experience. ;)
Whatever happened to your user title saying "Banned" when you received a vacation?
 
I regret getting 6700k in October 2015 and NOT 7700k at the end of last year :D My cpu is stuck at 4.5 @ 1.32 under AIO and I can't reach 4.6 at 1.35, so i don't want to go further because of temps. Envy those guys with 5 GHz on 7700k with around 1.3. My skylake turned out to be bad in OC lottery.
 
I'm sure people are queuing up to admit on a tech forum that they regret their recent purchase. Honestly.
 
I really don't get the weird brand loyalty this forum has so much of.

It's CPUs. They're not subjective. They're literally better or worse than each other at certain things, that's entirely why we benchmark them - to obtain objective data.

People who need more cores and can live with a lower IPC and clockspeed (Streamers, video editors, people running massively threaded apps) should be buying Ryzen and people who need raw IPC and Clockspeed and can live without more cores en masse (Basically everyone else) should be buying Intel.

If there's some other factor that affects your purchase it should really come down to pretty specific, non-subjective factors. The only exception is the people who bought Ryzen on the implied promise of it's overclocking getting better, or application optimisation getting better - both of which are gambles some people were or were not willing to take, but are possibly good reasons to invest in Ryzen right now.

There's a market argument that AMD making competitive product forces Intel to also put more effort in, which is good for the consumer, but beyond that, what the hell is the deal with people jumping to the defense of Intel or AMD as a company? Some people post like they just want to see one or the other of the two not only fail, but also all of it's employees sacrificed on the altar. That's just fucking weird. They're huge multinational corporations. They don't care about you jumping to their defense with your half-assed emotion-led arguments and lack of information. They're not going to send a prostitute to your house if you talk shit about their competitors online.

All they're gonna do is take you and your wallet for a ride in any way they can justify or get away with. It's what they're built to do. AMD being competitive is good for Intel consumers as well as AMD's own.
 
GlacierNine said:
I really don't get the weird brand loyalty this forum has so much of.

It's CPUs. They're not subjective. They're literally better or worse than each other at certain things, that's entirely why we benchmark them - to obtain objective data.

People who need more cores and can live with a lower IPC and clockspeed (Streamers, video editors, people running massively threaded apps) should be buying Ryzen and people who need raw IPC and Clockspeed and can live without more cores en masse (Basically everyone else) should be buying Intel.

If there's some other factor that affects your purchase it should really come down to pretty specific, non-subjective factors. The only exception is the people who bought Ryzen on the implied promise of it's overclocking getting better, or application optimisation getting better - both of which are gambles some people were or were not willing to take, but are possibly good reasons to invest in Ryzen right now.

There's a market argument that AMD making competitive product forces Intel to also put more effort in, which is good for the consumer, but beyond that, what the hell is the deal with people jumping to the defense of Intel or AMD as a company? Some people post like they just want to see one or the other of the two not only fail, but also all of it's employees sacrificed on the altar. That's just fucking weird. They're huge multinational corporations. They don't care about you jumping to their defense with your half-assed emotion-led arguments and lack of information. They're not going to send a prostitute to your house if you talk shit about their competitors online.

All they're gonna do is take you and your wallet for a ride in any way they can justify or get away with. It's what they're built to do. AMD being competitive is good for Intel consumers as well as AMD's own.
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100% agree. I game, my PC does nothing but game so I went with a 7700k. If I had use for more threads, I would have gone with a Ryzen.

I don't get brand loyalty either. What I hate though, is when I read how "Ryzen is better for games", "Ryzen will only get better in time", "Ryzen is more future proof".

All of which is nonsense, of course. I wish people could just get on, not bash someone else's decision of how they spend their hard earned cash. It's like the whole Titan Xp thing, people saying "I'm sorry for those who bought the original Titan X (Pascal)" etc. People who buy Titans know what they're doing, no need to feel sorry for them. Funny thing is, most of these brand loyalists are virgins running low spec PCs who only moan because they can't afford better hardware.
 
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