Coffee Lake - Worth the Wait?

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A question for those who are using the Coffee Lake platform: Is it worth waiting for the i7-8700 to come back in stock or should I just go for the Kaby Lake i7-7700?

The computer will be used mainly for software development and numerical processing (finite element and computational fluid dynamics). There will typically be one VM running at a time. Both single- and multi-threaded software will be used. The OSs will be Linux and Windows 10. There will be no GPU hand-off at the moment, but this may happen in a few months time.

The reason I am asking people who have used this platform is that synthetic benchmarks show a significant performance boost for Coffee Lake, but benchmarks done with real-world applications do not always reflect this result. Ponder also posted a link to heavily discounted i7-7700 processors on another thread.
 
garyc said:
A question for those who are using the Coffee Lake platform: Is it worth waiting for the i7-8700 to come back in stock or should I just go for the Kaby Lake i7-7700?

The computer will be used mainly for software development and numerical processing (finite element and computational fluid dynamics). There will typically be one VM running at a time. Both single- and multi-threaded software will be used. The OSs will be Linux and Windows 10. There will be no GPU hand-off at the moment, but this may happen in a few months time.

The reason I am asking people who have used this platform is that synthetic benchmarks show a significant performance boost for Coffee Lake, but benchmarks done with real-world applications do not always reflect this result. Ponder also posted a link to heavily discounted i7-7700 processors on another thread.
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Price/performance, go with the i7 7700. Depending on use-case of course.
http://carbonite.co.za/showthread.p...7700-i5-7500-amp-i5-7400-Processors-Clearance
That's about half the price of getting an i7 8700 and (haven't checked prices lately though) the newer gen motherboards are more expensive as well.

Rather take that price difference and get an SSD, or better GPU if gaming.

Use case is important.
 
garyc said:
A question for those who are using the Coffee Lake platform: Is it worth waiting for the i7-8700 to come back in stock or should I just go for the Kaby Lake i7-7700?

The computer will be used mainly for software development and numerical processing (finite element and computational fluid dynamics). There will typically be one VM running at a time. Both single- and multi-threaded software will be used. The OSs will be Linux and Windows 10. There will be no GPU hand-off at the moment, but this may happen in a few months time.

The reason I am asking people who have used this platform is that synthetic benchmarks show a significant performance boost for Coffee Lake, but benchmarks done with real-world applications do not always reflect this result. Ponder also posted a link to heavily discounted i7-7700 processors on another thread.
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Wait for coffee lake OEM to come, should be around R3300 I guess.

Otherwise if you need to upgrade get i7 7700 now.
 
garyc said:
A question for those who are using the Coffee Lake platform: Is it worth waiting for the i7-8700 to come back in stock or should I just go for the Kaby Lake i7-7700?

The computer will be used mainly for software development and numerical processing (finite element and computational fluid dynamics). There will typically be one VM running at a time. Both single- and multi-threaded software will be used. The OSs will be Linux and Windows 10. There will be no GPU hand-off at the moment, but this may happen in a few months time.

The reason I am asking people who have used this platform is that synthetic benchmarks show a significant performance boost for Coffee Lake, but benchmarks done with real-world applications do not always reflect this result. Ponder also posted a link to heavily discounted i7-7700 processors on another thread.
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Are you in a rush, can you wait a month or two?
 
It would be convenient to use the Christmas break to to the build and setup, but I guess that I can wait another month for the 8700 to come out.
 
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