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I have a 2500k, and I am going to upgrade (it's 6 years old).
Seriously considering an i7 7700k, people keep telling me to go for Zen because I am going to see a "big difference with games", even though those same people know that Zen will run slower on a per core basis (based on rumored benchmarks, which are going to tilt up if anything, not down).
I don't see this "big difference" with extra cores in today's games.
We can extrapolate based on current benchmarks, that the i7 7700k will be faster for games, as seen by using the 68xx Intel Series to compare against.
I can see a "big difference" going from Core i5 to Core i7 or Core i5 to 6/8 Cores, but I don't see a big difference going from Core i7 to 6 or 8 cores in GAMES like Ashes of the Singularity, which some benchmarks show a 30% increase going from Core i5 to Core i7 6700k but then when you go from 6700k to 6 or 8 core 68xx series, you show a much smaller increase.
I get that unzipping documents, handbreak, etc are all going to be faster, but I don't particularly care about all those apps I rarely use (if I use them). It isn't like a 7700k is going to choke on Chrome or that I care if it takes a 2gb file an extra 10 seconds to unzip.
I get that a 6 or 8 core will let me play a game and stream content faster (I don't stream).
Example:
Big increase from i5 to i7, then not so big increase...
Can anybody else sound in on my opinion?
Seriously considering an i7 7700k, people keep telling me to go for Zen because I am going to see a "big difference with games", even though those same people know that Zen will run slower on a per core basis (based on rumored benchmarks, which are going to tilt up if anything, not down).
I don't see this "big difference" with extra cores in today's games.
We can extrapolate based on current benchmarks, that the i7 7700k will be faster for games, as seen by using the 68xx Intel Series to compare against.
I can see a "big difference" going from Core i5 to Core i7 or Core i5 to 6/8 Cores, but I don't see a big difference going from Core i7 to 6 or 8 cores in GAMES like Ashes of the Singularity, which some benchmarks show a 30% increase going from Core i5 to Core i7 6700k but then when you go from 6700k to 6 or 8 core 68xx series, you show a much smaller increase.
I get that unzipping documents, handbreak, etc are all going to be faster, but I don't particularly care about all those apps I rarely use (if I use them). It isn't like a 7700k is going to choke on Chrome or that I care if it takes a 2gb file an extra 10 seconds to unzip.
I get that a 6 or 8 core will let me play a game and stream content faster (I don't stream).
Example:
Big increase from i5 to i7, then not so big increase...
Can anybody else sound in on my opinion?
