| From: Russell via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | Intel Core i5-7500 Kaby Lake 4-Core 3.4 GHz CPU w water cooling unit I get the feeling (i.e. have not checked) that Intel has introduced the 8th generation at similar price points to the 7th, but the 8th has two more cores at most levels. So I'd look at i5-8xxx. The current motherboards for 8th gen are the expensive ones and cheaper ones will be introduced (price based on chipset). Intel probably made the 8th gen a better value than the 7th was at its day is that AMD became credible again. If you are going to use a separate video card, consider looking at AMD processors. If you are just going to use integrated graphics, you have to go Intel at this time. | I follow with interest the posts on UEFI, secure boot, SElinux, USB, | udisks, udev, mobile linux and systemd. Now is my time to see if I have | learned anything. It mostly just works. Unless it doesn't. Or you try to do something different.