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So basically the current CPU marketflow is mostly inviting the idea of "more cores = better" To avoid myself in getting tempted to buy the i9 the question I want to put up here is: Who is gonna benefit from more than 6 cores on a CPU? And very interesting would be some valid data where it shows that most games only optimize 4 cores/8 threads. Thy opinion plus data please! (I could turn this into a poll if I got a nice selection of answers)

A topic I've been wanting to talk about is air coolers of the future. As many are aware Intel revealed their i9 lineup and AMD countered with their threadripper lineup at computex this year. These CPUs are going to have a very high core count of 18 and 16 cores respectively. Not to mention the die size of AMD's threadripper is massive. So I have to ask how are these things going to be kept cool? Especially on air? I think I even saw something where Intel's stock cooler for thier i9's is actually going to be a water cooler. Is water cooling going to be a requirement going forward now with the way CPUs are going? Personally I hope not. While I have had generally good luck with AIOs the risk of a leak, noise, and additional point of failure pushed me to move to to my Noctua cooler on my 1800X. Then there comes the question of overclocking. Now I wouldn't expect to get much OC headroom from CPUs with this many cores but trying to cool it I can imagine would be quite a challenge. So my question I pose for discussion is how or what can we expect to see from air coolers going forward? Will we see gargantuan heatsinks and fans?

Mainly need help picking waterblock cooling. I would prefer a ratiator that can fit 3 fans, so I might need a different recommendation on a case. (no 900D, Tempered glass lyfe) I wont be buying anything for about another month. So I am just getting parts together as of now. PC Part Picker Amazon List * - Q: "Why do you need 128GB of ram?" A - ** - Q: "RGB is dumb" A - I have Razor Chroma peripherals, I want to work on making firmware so my case does the same thing my mouse, keyboard, and mousepad do with certain games. Also, I like to change my colors to the same color or two tone, no time for that Seizure effect non sense.

Buy Intel Core i9 Processors: Amazon: http://geni.us/2awAbtJ Newegg: http://geni.us/MSqofD The numbers are in, and we've got a much better idea of what Core i9 really looks like. So - should you upgrade?

Hey guys, so sorry about this. As pointed out by @patthehat over in the official thread, the Performance Per Dollar graph as shown in the video is incorrect - It was showing the weighted averages of the benchmarks. It SHOULD show the following: Hopefully that makes a bit more sense!

I just wanted to know everyone's thoughts on the matter, maybe start a discussion.

Hi, i'm working on a new project including the i9-9900k and i was hoping to get some clarification on temperatures. How does a 9900k perform on a 120mm AIO (or custom) water cooler? Need some pointers in order to decide how much cooling I'll need. I've read insane reviews where they say the power draw exceeds 250W (on 95W standard chip?) and that it's impossible to overclock on anything less than a 360 rad... Any help is appreciated, doesn't necessarily need to be a 120 mm that's just where i'm coming from.

With current prices, an i9 - 9900KF paired with a Z390 Gigabyte Aorus Master comes out to $689.98. A 3700X paired with the equivalent X570 Gigabyte Aorus Master comes out to $687.88. Difference of $2.10! If I use my PC primarily for gaming is there any reason to get the Ryzen setup? It would be paired with an existing RTX 2080 and 240hz monitor. Other than maybe PCIE4 and productivity which I rarely use the pc for... dollar for dollar wouldn't it be a no brainer to get the 9900KF? Thoughts appreciated!

So I have 4 I9 systems that I need to get the best STABLE overclock out of. Here are the specs: CPU: I9 9900k Mobo: Asus Z390 Gaming-E RAM: 64GB @ 3200MHz Cooler: Corsair H100i Pro RGB Case: Rosewill RSV-L4000 (4U Rackmount) Bios Settings are as follows: (Anything not listed is default) XMP I profile enabled MCE: Auto SVID Behavior: Best Case Scenario CPU Core Ratio: Sync All Cores @ 50 Digi + VRM -> Load Line Calibration: Level 6 (Might have the name wrong, writing this from home) Internal CPU Power Management -> IA AC Loadline & IA DC Loadline = 0.01 CPU Core Voltage: Manual = 1.3V The machines are in a 64 F server room so ambient temp is not an issue. They will be used in a compute cluster to run FPGA builds and simulations which can be AVX heavy workloads. They will be run 24/7 and potentially be running the overclock for years at a time so stability is key. My goal is to get all chips to 5GHz (AVX/non AVX). My problem is that I am running into temperature issues. I am seeing temps in the 90s and sometimes 100c on some cores. The weirdest thing to me is that there can be a temperature delta of 13c between cores on the CPU. I don't know if this is common to 9900K or just a bad cooler mount. When I run prime95 to stress test I either have an incorrect result/hardware failure or a thermal shutdown. We got these CPUs specifically for the lightly threaded performance and every MHz matters. So if anyone has any suggestions on better BIOS settings it would be really helpful. I plan to check the mounts on the coolers. No additional thermal paste was added to 3 of them, so I have a feeling that may be part of it.

Hi guys, I have recently bought a new workstation with i9-9900k and I think it is overheating. When I am rendering in blender (all cores and threads on full load) the temperature goes up to 90+°C (194°F). And I don't know what am I doing wrong. :D Is it because the Noctua NH-D15 can't handle that cpu or what? Thanks for any response. Sorry for my english, it is not my native language.

Can i pair up an intel core i9 9900k with a X99A sli plus msi mother board???

I'm running a i9 9900k on a gigabyte aorus z390 elite and cooling it with Noctua DH-15. While running AIDA stress test on core, cache, FPU and system memory I get 9% throttling, and temps around 90-100 celsius. While playing battlefield 5 i get to 80 celsius and core voltage is at 1.45 witch I think is too high and the processor runs at 4,8GHz. Can I decrese voltage? Edit: also the processor wont go above 4.8GHz even if at 60 celsius.

Dear all Today when i was searching for good performance and budget laptops, i came around with a dell inspiron 7591 with CORE I9 9880h . And it only cost about $1400 US DOLLARS (1,04,000 inr). That is ridiculus because most i9 laptop start at US $2499 dollars. If anyone interested in this laptop. You could buy or see it from dell official website. Also it is not available in US https://www.dell.com/en-in/shop/laptops-2-in-1-pcs/new-inspiron-15-7000-laptop/spd/inspiron-15-7591-laptop

First I know the title sounds stupid, but let me explain. Where I work one of my coworkers got one for free, but he cannot sell it nor gift it. However he is willing to give it to any coworker that wants to build a PC, because he is not gonna use it anyway. So I want to build a gaming PC with it. I can spend about $500 in the whole thing (tower only, no peripherals). Also I want to know if it is worth building it or building one with a different processor(one I buy) is better. Note: I already have some HDDs, so only a SSD would be necessary

I’m planning to get the Ryzen 9, which one of those cpu you guys suggest? Anyone knows when the Ryzen will go back to stock?

So I've overclocked both my CPU and RTX 2080 ti Strix to a level where I feel they hold without making my rig take off. However, I'm limited to only a 750W power supply, which means I'm afraid the wattage is gonna hit past that if there's any workload that uses both the CPU and GPU at the same time. I have a wattage-meter so I can see the drainage from the wall socket, but the biggest problem is that I don't have any stress tests that test the CPU and GPU at the same time. I use Intel's overclocking manager and the Asus GPU tweak II. So far, if I put my CPU at 4.0 and cache to 2.8 and stress test it, the meter shows around 500-600w, but I guess that's only for the processor. When I play a game like Metro Exodus with everything on highest, RTX on ultra and in 4K DLSS mode, I hit around 530w with the processor only at 30%. I would imagine that if the processor went up to 100% and the GPU also around 100%, that would seriously max out beyond my 750w. Question is, will it ever do that? Is there ever an occasion where both the GPU and CPU works at the same time at 100%? It seems that every task is either using the GPU or CPU primarily, but never both. Question is, how high can I go on my current rig? Theoretically, that is. At the moment, I've only dared to set my CPU at 4.0 clock and cache to 2.8, while my 2080 ti is set to: 1750 clock Nothing added on the memory clock Fans to 45 Power level to 120 Metro crashes if I go higher. I tried setting the 2080 ti to 1800 clock, but that crashed it even more times. I've read however that Metro seems to crash because of overclocking, so I'm not sure if it does so because my overclock fails or is unstable or if the game doesn't work with overclocking. When I looked at JayzTwoCents's overclock of the Strix 2080 ti, he just blasted it up to 1800 core clock, maxed out memory clock, power level to 125 and fans to 100 percent and it was no biggie. He didn't touch the voltage at all, which feels safe, but wouldn't such an overclock just be a very high risk if my processor has a high wattage count when working? I also seem to see in BIOS that my RAM is set at 2800 instead of 3600 MHz and I don't know what that's about? I'm not very experienced at overclocking and I'd rather have a stable overclock than winning any overclocking contests, but since I have both a CPU and GPU that is meant for overclocking, then it's just a waste of money not to do it. But I'm not sure what is safe for my system. Temperature seems to work fine, I have a lot of Noctua fans pulling some air through the rig, and the Kraken on the CPU with two Noctua fans blowing at the radiator on the top ceiling. Need some advice here Here's my rig: intel Core i9 7960X 2.8 GHz 22MB Corsair 64GB (4x16GB) DDR4 3600MHz CL18 Seasonic FOCUS Plus 750W Gold WD Gold 10TB 7200rpm 256MB (Main big storage) 3 WD Gold 6TB 7200rpm 128MB (BIOS RAID for 4-6K footage editing and color grading) Kraken X52 (On the CPU to the radiator at the top with the two Noctua's blowing upwards) ASUS WS X299 SAGE ASUS Thunderbolt EX 3 ASUS RTX 2080 ti Strix Fractal Design Define XL R2 Black Noctua NF-A14 140mm PWM (one at the bottom, one at the rear and two in the front) Noctua NF-A12x25 PWM (two on the radiator) Windows 10 Pro Swe 64-bit OEM Samsung 970 PRO 1TB (Main boot Drive with Windows 10)

Hey folks, So I just build my new workstation pc with i9 9980xe and 128 GB ram. It's an workstation pc only for rendering and 3d. But I want some more performance. So is there any safest way to overclock this cpu?? I am using liquid cooling because of this beast cpu. PS Are those pre overvlocked CPUs worth? If yes then where can I buy one? PSS sometimes I play games, I mean only cs go, but it doesn't matter because it's in my office so . Thanks in advance for replies. Peace!!!

Hello all! I am new here, this is my first post, anyways, I got a score of 2940 on Cinebench for this i9 in my Laptop. Just want to know what y'all think? 16GB 2400Mhz RAM I was also wondering if this is a CPU that should be paired with more or faster Mhz RAM? Thanks! EDIT: RAM specs

So in my past i've always either bought a pre-built system or taken a system i bought pre-built and upgraded it. However to save a bit and get some experience while putting the saved money into a more powerful system I decided to build my own using my own research into quality products currently available. My goal for this PC is to be able to game, stream, video edit and possibly other small programs with my 3 monitor system i already run. The PC i bought 6 years ago still handles alright for what i spent when I bought it but I feel its time for a new upgraded system that can handle everything i want to do now. The ultimate goal which im finding difficult is finding all the best product middle grounds when it comes to price, performance, and sound output. That being said I plan on using an i9 9900k as my cpu and a 2080 graphics card. Here is my current build. If you feel that the build itself has issues feel free to let me know. I am definitely no PC building expert just an enthusiast and want to make sure the quality for the price is the best that I can do. Thanks for your input!

So basically I'm planning to build a new PC soon but I'm not sure which CPU I should get. I will mostly just be gaming on my PC so I'm thinking an i9-9900K might be a bit overkill though I'm planning to probably keep my computer for 6-8 years without upgrading it (well, probably just the graphics card once or twice) so I'm thinking an i9-9900K might be worth it in the end. What do you guys think? Is it worth spending an extra $150 on an i9-9900K or not? Thanks!

Hi All, I looking to purchase the a Zbook for school will be doing (mainly CAD, Photoshop and video editing), will not game much on it as I have a Desktop with a GTX1060. the computers are configured so that i7-8850H comes with P2000 and i7-8750H comes with P1000. I not sure the price difference should be about 400 (still waiting for a quote) Now is the i7-8850H better than i7-8750H? (the i9 Versions are also available cost $500 more just for the i9, which is insane) Is the P2000 worth it over the P1000? The laptop come with 3 yr warrenty and should last me at least 4 yr or more. Is the price premium worth it in the long run? Thank you!!

This is my first time overclocking my cpu. I followed the instructions on the linked video to a T, except to the voltage of the cpu, as i didnt know what my cpu could handle. im averaging just over 4 ghz and peaking at 4.6. My highest cinebench score is 4714 if that helps any troubleshoot for me.

Hello Everyone, My old x58 i7 930 computer has finally bit the dust after a very long journey together; which has now brought me a void in my life. I want to build a new system that will last me the same amount of time my old rig has and i wanted some input. I was planning to build on the x299 platform using MSI x299 creation and i9 9820x cpu along with 128GB of ram paired with the new rumored RTX 20x0Ti super gfx card. However i have been seeing a lot of negative reviews with the current platform from intel (link, link). I wanted to know what i should do? do i wait until the next gen comes out? if yes what is the next gen and when can we expect it? P.S: i am aware of AMD and i will be building a AMD rig as a streaming pc as a itx build. the intel build will be for my main rig for gaming + lot of other stuff i do like coding, hosting, 3D work etc.....

In this week, when i was browsing about processors in cpuserbenchmark, i saw that AMD ryzen 9 3900x (12c/24t) processor is beaten by i9 9900k by 6% (It is just merely 8c/16t).I want to know that why it is showing results which is impossible. And it is also not possible because of 7nm processing node and implementation in 3900x as well as with have 12c/ 24t. So then, why this is showing that i9 9900k beats ryzen 9 3900x? Like for the comparison: https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-9900K-vs-AMD-Ryzen-9-3900X/4028vs4044

Hi, I've been using a pre-built gaming PC for about 4 years now and I'm getting urges to upgrade soon since I can feel the PC starting to struggle as well as me having money saved up rn. Down below I've featured three systems 1 that is my current build as well as 2 potential upgrade alternatives I've been looking at. When I game on this computer I usually tend to play some light games since my computer is incapable of running newer titles like apex and pubg etc. at 144hz, so it doesn't become a pleasurable experience. Current system: CPU: Intel - Core i5-6500 3.2 GHz Quad-Core Processor Motherboard: MSI - Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Memory: Corsair - Vengeance LPX 8 GB (2 x 4 GB) DDR4-2133 Memory Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage: Seagate - SkyHawk 2 TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card: Asus - GeForce GTX 960 2 GB Video Card Case: Fractal Design - Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: Corsair - CSM 450 W 80+ Gold Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply Cost: 0$ Upgrade alternative 1: CPU: Intel - Core i7-7700K 4.2 GHz Quad-Core Processor CPU Cooler: NZXT - Kraken X62 Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard: MSI - Z170A PC MATE ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Memory: Corsair - Vengeance RGB Pro 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage: Seagate - Skyhawk 2 TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card: Sapphire - Radeon RX VEGA 64 8 GB NITRO+ Case: Fractal Design - Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: be quiet! - Dark Power Pro 11 650 W 80+ Platinum Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply Cost to upgrade: 1420$ Upgrade alternative 2: CPU: Intel - Core i9-9900K 3.6 GHz 8-Core Processor CPU Cooler: Corsair - H60 (2018) 57.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler Motherboard: Asus - ROG STRIX Z390-F GAMING ATX LGA1151 Motherboard Memory: Kingston - HyperX Fury 16 GB (2 x 8 GB) DDR4-2666 Memory Storage: Samsung - 850 EVO-Series 250 GB 2.5" Solid State Drive Storage: Seagate - SkyHawk 2 TB 3.5" 5900RPM Internal Hard Drive Video Card: MSI - GeForce RTX 2070 8 GB VENTUS Video Card Case: Fractal Design - Define R5 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case Power Supply: be quiet! - Dark Power Pro 11 650 W 80+ Platinum Certified Semi-modular ATX Power Supply Cost to upgrade: 1955$ If you think I should look to AMD processors and likewise please tell me which because I'm not very updated on AMD's current line up. (Might add another "Upgrade alternative" to the list with an AMD alternative.) I really appreciate any help on this since I don't really feel like having to return 3 parts just because I didn't do enough homework and missed something crucial and lose my sanity. Thanks to all in advance