jib Posted March 28, 2021 Share Posted March 28, 2021 (edited) I am building a new gaming PC this month (mainly just play DCS and Total War) and was going to get the 10th gen Intel i7 10700k for £280 but as the 11th Gen Intel i7 11700k is out this week I'm sort of tempted but it is £110 more. It is going to be paired with a my current GPU a RTX 2060 and 32GB 3600mhz RAM. Early leaked units of the i7 11700k have show shockingly similar performance to the i7 10700k and even sometime worse in some games. https://www.anandtech.com/show/16535/intel-core-i7-11700k-review-blasting-off-with-rocket-lake/16 Maybe I will wait a few weeks until someone does a DCS benchmark (but I do want my new PC now!) , it will be interesting to see how it performs! Edited March 28, 2021 by jib Mods I use: KA-50 JTAC - Better Fire and Smoke - Unchain Rudder from trim KA50 - Sim FFB for G940 - Beczl Rocket Pods Updated! Processor: Intel Q6600 @ 3.00GHz GPU: GeForce MSI RTX 2060 6GB RAM: Crucial 8GB DDR2 HDD: 1TBGB Crucial SSD OS: Windows 10, 64-bit Peripherals: Logitech G940 Hotas, TrackiR 5, Voice Activated commands , Sharkoon 5.1 headset. ,Touch Control for iPad, JoyToKey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reece146 Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 If it were me I'd wait a week or two - rumour mill says big price cuts on 10700K in the next week or so. 11700K is not a compelling chip - I'd skip it. $0.02 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
agrasyuk Posted March 29, 2021 Share Posted March 29, 2021 instead of 11700K I just purchased a 10700K at a very nice discount this Friday (and MB+RAM to go with it). It's basically the same thing but without direct lanes for the SSD. If all of a sudden the 11th get proves to get few FPS more in DCS I will not be majorly upset Anton. My pit build thread . Simple and cheap UFC project Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
McVittees Posted April 15, 2021 Share Posted April 15, 2021 (edited) My new 11600k cpu arrived today. I currently run a 3570k (!) so it won’t be anything but good for me, even if it’s a lame upgrade compared to more recent cpu releases eg 9700k/10700k/Ryzen 5600k. Doubt I’ll get more FPS but certainly will help keep what I get now more stable when lots going on. Shame I doubt I’ll be able to upgrade from my gtx960 2gb anytime soon Edited April 15, 2021 by McVittees [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] "Great minds think alike; idiots seldom differ.":pilotfly: i5 3750K@4.3Ghz, MSI Z77A GD55, 8GB DDR3, Palit GTX 670, 24" Benq@1920*1080, X52 Pro, Win 7 64bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jskibo Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Thanks to the 11700 release grabbed a 10700k for $269, decent upgrade from the 8600k I had Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reece146 Posted April 16, 2021 Share Posted April 16, 2021 Funny - in spite of "pooh-poohing" the 11700K above I just bought one. But, the 10700k is staying in my DCS rig. The 11700k is going into one of my Linux workstations. I was eyeing the 10900k for this Linux machine but the 11700k seems to have similar multi-core performance as the 10900k AND it has a better, Xe based iGPU. That way I can slave the discrete GPU to a virtual machine and have the Linux host still be good enough for workstation tasks with Xe. Use case and all that... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jib Posted April 19, 2021 Author Share Posted April 19, 2021 I ended up getting the i5 11600kf instead of the i7 11700k because it was only 0.1 GHZ lower in turbo clock speed and DCS wouldn't use the extra 2 cores anyway and there was a £70 ($100) price difference for an imperceptible performance gain. Mods I use: KA-50 JTAC - Better Fire and Smoke - Unchain Rudder from trim KA50 - Sim FFB for G940 - Beczl Rocket Pods Updated! Processor: Intel Q6600 @ 3.00GHz GPU: GeForce MSI RTX 2060 6GB RAM: Crucial 8GB DDR2 HDD: 1TBGB Crucial SSD OS: Windows 10, 64-bit Peripherals: Logitech G940 Hotas, TrackiR 5, Voice Activated commands , Sharkoon 5.1 headset. ,Touch Control for iPad, JoyToKey Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlpineGTA Posted April 19, 2021 Share Posted April 19, 2021 I've just bought an i5-11600K. It seemed to be recommended as all you need for a decent gaming PC. Either way, it should be an improvement on my current old i7-3770 i5-11600K CPU, 64GB DDR4 RAM, XFX Speedster MERC319 AMD Radeon 6900 XT, Oculus Quest 2, HP Reverb G2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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