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Trade Your Intel Core i7-8086K for a Threadripper 1950X

R0H1T said:
So we'll never know if the offer tempts you enough, assuming you qualify for the upgrade.
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Nah, too much novelty/nerd factor value for me. :laugh: I'd keep the thing sealed in its box and stick it on display on a shelf. Yes, I'm sad, I agree.
 
jabbadap said:
I would. Then sell that threadripper and buy i7 8700k with mobo and memory bundle :roll:
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Great strat, bro. Spoken like a true hardcore gamer. :cool:
 
It really depends on your use case. If you need a High Core Count CPU to get your work done faster, then Threadripper is a great solution.

If on the other hand your work does not benefit from 16cores (or an 18core from Intel ), then I'd select the processor with the highest responsiveness - lowest latency.

Coffee Lake or Ryzen 2.
 
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jabbadap said:
I would. Then sell that threadripper and buy i7 8700k with mobo and memory bundle :roll:
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You know what I wouldn't mind that, but I'd rather get the 1180 or 1180Ti, I seriously doubt though if the next Nvidia flagship will cost just $800 :cool:
 
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Hood said:
I wouldn't trade my i7-4790K for a TR 1950X. Not even if they included the motherboard and RAM with it. Threadripper is garbage, they cant even give them away.
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Haha. What a troll. Wonder why they cant' sell all of their 800$ CPUs. :O

qubit said:
Oh, that's cutting! :laugh:
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That's a very weak ripost in my opinion. AMD was the winner troll here.
 
B-Real said:
That's a very weak ripost in my opinion. AMD was the winner troll here.
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Yeah probably, cuz moar cores!! <facepalm>

Personally, I'd get the 8086K/8700K any day, because I want the best gaming performance. Threadripper 2 might change this equation, but at the moment, Intel is still king for games and that's all I care about for my home PC.
 
16x3.4GHz=54.4GHz, who wouldn't trade a binned 8700K for that.
 
R0H1T said:
You know what I wouldn't mind that, but I'd rather get the 1180 or 1180Ti, I seriously doubt though if the next Nvidia flagship will cost just $800:cool:
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Even Nvidia cant grasp the concept of sub $1000 flagship cards. Especially when the previouscurrent gen cards are still $1k+
 
The funny thing is I would keep that i7..... if it worked in my motherboard. But it doesn't of course thanks to Intel's patented Milking Tech.

Even when I want to buy Intel, they find a way to destroy any proposition of me considering them again. There's just no point in buying their nuclear reactors anymore...
 
Captain_Tom said:
The funny thing is I would keep that i7..... if it worked in my motherboard. But it doesn't of course thanks to Intel's patented Milking Tech.

Even when I want to buy Intel, they find a way to destroy any proposition of me considering them again. There's just no point in buying their nuclear reactors anymore...
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Why does Intel always get the blame for it?

Who stands to make money out of a different socket, Intel or the motherboard vendors?

Think about it.
 
[XC] Oj101 said:
Why does Intel always get the blame for it?

Who stands to make money out of a different socket, Intel or the motherboard vendors?

Think about it.
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Both obviously. Intel gets the blame because they are the ones making that decision.
 
[XC] Oj101 said:
You mean doing what the vendors ask of them.
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Actually, the motherboard vendors have a record of going against Intel's rules, like when they allowed overclocking the unlocked Pentium G3258 on H81 chipset boards. But I don't think Asus, Asrock, and Gigabyte could coerce Intel into arbitrarily changing sockets, just so they can sell more boards. That would cut into Intel's profits, the ultimate sin (to Intel). Fewer people will by their new CPUs if it requires buying a new board.
 
[XC] Oj101 said:
You mean doing what the vendors ask of them.
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That's completely incorrect. ASUS said they wanted to allow support for the new 6-core i7's on their old motherboards, but Intel wouldn't let them.

Are you intentionally lying, or did you literally just make up this "fact" in your head so you can rationalize blindly defending another anti-consumer decision by Intel?
 
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