The upgrade from Sandy Bridge to KabyLake is under consideration.
The upgrade from Sandy Bridge to KabyLake is under consideration.
DRagor :
joelwalkingzombie :
It's worth noting, so in the long term I'd prefer to be at Coffee Lake (or the Ice Lake expected next year) instead of just installing a 1080 into an OC'd 2500k. (I'm aware there could be bottlenecks, but I could always upgrade the CPU later and have a 1080 ready to go.) Thanks for your quick replies.
In any case, if I understand correctly, you're suggesting a swap of RAM, motherboard, CPU—possibly even GPU (though that's less important since the GPU can be moved to a newer build)—so why invest in components from several generations old? I could agree with your point about Kaby Lake versus 2500K; it doesn't offer much new quality, just a slight boost. But the 8th generation brings not only speed but also more cores, which really matters (and will matter even more in the future).
You're right. I had missed the extra cores Coffee Lake provides, until recently I wasn't seriously thinking about such an upgrade, focusing instead on overclocking a 2500k for another few years until something better appeared. But adding cores is probably not going to be revolutionary for consumers anytime soon, and I now understand why.
Also, I thought Coffee Lake and general PC gear were too costly for the performance jump you're expecting (you know, I haven't been into computers much since the Pentium 4 days, only used an i3 Sandy Bridge about three years ago and thought it was amazing until I started playing PC games again...lol).
What you're looking at, re: performance:
Sandy---OC
Sandy----------------------KabyLake
Sandy--------------------------------CoffeeLake
Since you're changing mostly everything anyway....no reason to buy
last years
stuff, for basically the same cost as
this years
stuff.