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Pemalite said:

JEMC said:
Intel Coffee Lake processor reviews are not up! Here's a roundup of several of them:

https://videocardz.com/73089/intel-8th-gen-core-coffee-lake-s-review-roundup

Some good gains there... I say "good" only because we had gotten used to 0-5% gains each year.
Going from benchmarks I am looking at a 25-35% increase across the spectrum when compared to my 6 year old 3930K, whilst using 30w of power less.

It has made the LGA 2066 Quad and Hex core chips absolutely worthless buys in my opinion.

If you are running Nahelem, Phenom or FX, this is a great chip to upgrade to... Keen to see what next year brings with Ryzen 2 and Ice Lake, we do need some IPC gains.

There's one reason to go 2066, and that's PCIe lanes.

Coffee Lake offers 16 lanes while the i7-7800X has 28. If someone wants to go with a dual GPU setup plus one or two NVMe drives, those extra lanes will come in handy.