Putting 9900k in Prime-A Z370

[PopsicleHustler]

Hi all

So currently I have 8700k @5Ghz running in my Asus Prime-A Z370 for over 2 years right now. I was thinking putting 9900k in that board, possibly overclocking it SLIGHTLY. 

My reason is this - I'm playing mainly BF2042, and that game hates CPUs. 8700k is just barely cutting it for high FPS. 9900k would give me much needed boost for relatively low upgrade cost (I can get brand new for 200 euros).

 

I'm not doing a full rig upgrade right now. Will wait until new hardware comes out, then go shopping full tilt when I know I have $$$ to play with. New CPU/RAM/BM, all the fun stuff. 

 

For know though, what you think? 

[xxx.sps]

This would work. You can also get a new PSU that is about 850 watts, also 16gb of RAM isn't much for a system of this level especially at 3000Mhz, get a new RAM kit too and it should be golden.

[Zando_]

 If you aren't having VRM temp issues right now, you likely wouldn't with a 9900K (especially with a lower OC). So it should be fine. 

 

EDIT to avoid double posting, @xxx.spswhy would they need 850W? The 9900K seems to pull up to 250W at the most, OP would need to get their 3080 to pull a clean 400W and then have 100W in fans to actually hit the limits of a good 750W unit. 

[Mister Woof]

3 minutes ago, xxx.sps said:

This should work, if you also get a new PSU that is about 850 watts, also 16gb of RAM isn't much for a system of this level especially at 3000Mhz, get a new RAM kit too and it should be golden.

Personally don't see a need to upgrade the PSU unless it doesn't work; new RAM is a bit expensive, probably not worth the effort this late in the game.

[Mister Woof]

But if you're playing BF2042 I'd say you got bigger problems

[xxx.sps]

8 minutes ago, Zando_ said:

 If you aren't having VRM temp issues right now, you likely wouldn't with a 9900K (especially with a lower OC). So it should be fine. 

 

EDIT to avoid double posting, @xxx.spswhy would they need 850W? The 9900K seems to pull up to 250W at the most, OP would need to get their 3080 to pull a clean 400W and then have 100W in fans to actually hit the limits of a good 750W unit. 

Mostly to prevent an issue in the future it wouldn't be required but it would definitely be pushing the limits of it. Personally I don't know much about EVGA PSUs so I don't know how trustworthy it would be.

[PopsicleHustler]

4 minutes ago, xxx.sps said:

This should work, if you also get a new PSU that is about 850 watts, also 16gb of RAM isn't much for a system of this level especially at 3000Mhz, get a new RAM kit too and it should be golden.

I don't see a reason to get RAM and PSU now. As I said, I'm planning a major system overhaul in 2023, I just need a CPU that is a little more powerful until then. My current EVGA 750 GQ is perfectly capable of running what I have. RTX3080 consumes 350W at peak load, 9900k should be around 200w MAX if I overclock it a bit. Lets just say rest of my system: x5 Silent wing fans, few LED strips, motherboard and x3 SSDs eat a whopping 100W. I still have 100W of headroom.

 

As for the RAM, why? I'm perfectly fine with 16GBs that I have now. So whats the point of getting more DDR4, if I will be going for DDR5 quite soon.

[Zando_]

3 minutes ago, xxx.sps said:

Mostly to prevent an issue in the future it wouldn't be required but it would definitely be pushing the limits of it. Personally I don't know much about EVGA PSUs so I don't know how trustworthy it would be.

Don't need to. OP already has the PSU with an 8700K and 3080, and the 8700K pulls similar power to the 9900K going off people's compilation threads (~220W when OCed with around 1.35v vCore - with some outliers). 

[xxx.sps]

1 minute ago, Zando_ said:

Don't need to. OP already has the PSU with an 8700K and 3080, and the 8700K pulls similar power to the 9900K going off people's compilation threads (~220W with some outliers). 

Ok, thanks for clarifying.

[PopsicleHustler]

27 minutes ago, Shimmy Gummi said:

But if you're playing BF2042 I'd say you got bigger problems

Go ahead, judge me

[Zando_]

24 minutes ago, PopsicleHustler said:

Go ahead, judge me

I need to boot it up again if I can pull myself away from Elden Ring, how are the new changes? I was watching JackFrag's video on it, seems some guns got tuned as well as the larger changes like VOIP and UI scaling. 

[PopsicleHustler]

1 hour ago, Zando_ said:

I need to boot it up again if I can pull myself away from Elden Ring, how are the new changes? I was watching JackFrag's video on it, seems some guns got tuned as well as the larger changes like VOIP and UI scaling. 

Most attachments got re-worked. Some of them works completely different than before. They cut number of vehicles for most maps, added VoIP and a metric ton of additional sliders/UI options for making every possible UI element/Player icon bigger, smaller, less visible, any RGB color you want etc.

 

The biggest change was improvements to mouse aiming. Oh boy, does it feel good now.