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Dark Rock 3 for a 9th Gen i7/i9

Mateyyy
By Mateyyy
in CPUs, Motherboards, and Memory
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Hi forum, 

 

I'm looking to upgrade to a Z390 platform in the future, with an i7-9700K or an i9-9900K.

I was wondering how my Dark Rock 3 would handle either of these, especially the i9.

My guess would be that it would handle the i7 quite well, even overclocked (though I heard Coffee Lake run fairly warm compared to the last few generations), but I really don't know what to think about the i9. The TDP listed on the spec sheet is 95W (stock) but I've heard it actually uses way more power than that, especially when turbo boosting, and runs super hot, even without overclocking.

So, do you guys reckon I'd have to upgrade my cooling for these two CPUs, and if not, do you think I could also overclock a fair bit (at least the i7)?

 

Cheers!

 

Edit: Just realised this should've probably been on the Air Cooling section of the forum, rather than over here so I apologise

Edited by Mateyyy

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