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7700k seems kinda overpriced. Why not pay $40 more for the i7-7800X and get 50% more cores and double the memory bandwidth/channels?
by sliken 9y ago
7700k seems kinda overpriced. Why not pay $40 more for the i7-7800X and get 50% more cores and double the memory bandwidth/channels?
- BoorishBears 9y agoPlenty of reasons: Higher base clock on the 7700k, biggest reason for entertainment alongside: Higher OC potential (back in the 4790k days 5Ghz on air was something else, for the 7700k not getting 5Ghz is considered "losing the silicon lottery") Cheapest 7800X motherboard is 100$ more than cheapest 7700k motherboards (which are still quite good) because X299 is a HEDT platform Most entertainment machines won't benefit from quad channel over dual channel in a meaningful way. The 7700k is generally regarded as the fastest gaming CPU available, that's why so many benchmarks use it. I'm pretty sure AMD used it to showcase Vega because even if it becomes a bottleneck, no other CPU on the market can be "less of a bottneck" And I'll add, this is all with my entertainment/gaming hat on. For a dev machine where I'd expect to work with compiled languages or compiling OSes I'd definitely go with more cores.