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jmanatVT

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When it stops meeting needs and reinstalling the OS or upgrading a part


is no longer sufficient or feasible.

FWIW on what's coming up for intel:

Ice Lake (expected) next year is a brand new microarchitecture which will reduce the transistor size to 10 nm. It's rumored to be the biggest leap in performance in a while (since Skylake in 2015 or Sandy Bridge before that in 2011). If you really want an i9, there may not be an Ice Lake i9 released until 2020. Will an Ice Lake i7 outperform a Coffee Lake i9? That's hard to say.

The Coffee Lake generation has the i9-9900k is rumored to be released on Oct 1. Rumored price is $450. That isn't too bad considering the Skylake-X desktop i9's started at $989. Way to rich for my needs though.

There's also Cascade Lake, an announced optimization of Skylake that is mostly for server and enthusiast; no idea when that will be released though. I'm not sure it'll be worth much to even a serious home user with Ice Lake coming out.
[Post edited by jmanatVT at 08/15/2018 11:19AM]

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