Kaby Lake (upcoming Intel CPU) looks like a dud

[BoilerDown]

Something new and previously unknown:

Kaby Lake-X series i7 7740K: https://videocardz.com/67610/intel-core-i7-7740k-and-asrock-x299-professional-gaming-i7-spotted

New socket, higher stock speed, higher TDP, no integrated GPU (which only generates waste heat for a gamer with an add-on GPU).  This has the specs of a gamer dream CPU.  Looks like they decided that since Kaby Lake overclocks so well, they might as well do some of it stock and sell you the improvement.  If I were upgrading my gaming PC now, this is what I'd get.

[Skuzzy]

Not happening for me at all.  No Windows 7 support, so I am done with anymore hardware updates for Windows computers.

[Bruv119]

harsh, I installed my new kaby lake processor last night, re-loaded windows 10 in ten minutes.  Happy days!!   

[MADe]

X299 chipset
optane
cannon lake x series

wow my build is obsolete already.
But still no 5GHz+ stock cpu's..................

they have over a billion transisters in a cpu now. If people were transistors, you could barely make a dozen cpu's........

the 3 core lake at 4.5GHz stock is prolly an option I'd consider if building new now. As skuzzy pointed out, gamings use of multithreading is not necessarially practical, but speed, you can never have to much.

 

[BoilerDown]

A little more info... Skylake-X and Kaby Lake-X being pushed out a bit sooner:
https://techreport.com/news/31719/rumor-intel-pulls-x299-and-skylake-x-release-to-late-june