Is 9th Gen Intel a platform worth upgrading in?

cowswearbras · November 28, 2023

Hey everyone, I'm currently in a dilemma. My current build is currently running an i5-9600KF, and I have been definitely noticing slowdowns in day to day tasks. Sometimes my whole pc just slows down when I open too many tabs too quickly, or my steam download speeds are just bottlenecked by the cpu trying to unzip the files. I'm wondering if it would be worth it to buy a used 9900KF, which where I'm from I can get it for the equivalent of US$190? I'm not sure if I should just wait a little longer to upgrade my entire system, as it is long long overdue. My main boot drive is still a 250gb ssd from my first build (4th gen intel), and my drive situation now is basically quite a mess.. What do you guys think? Thanks!

PDifolco · November 28, 2023

8 minutes ago, cowswearbras said:

Hey everyone, I'm currently in a dilemma. My current build is currently running an i5-9600KF, and I have been definitely noticing slowdowns in day to day tasks. Sometimes my whole pc just slows down when I open too many tabs too quickly, or my steam download speeds are just bottlenecked by the cpu trying to unzip the files. I'm wondering if it would be worth it to buy a used 9900KF, which where I'm from I can get it for the equivalent of US$190? I'm not sure if I should just wait a little longer to upgrade my entire system, as it is long long overdue. My main boot drive is still a 250gb ssd from my first build (4th gen intel), and my drive situation now is basically quite a mess.. What do you guys think? Thanks!

I'd say 9th gen is not worth an upgrade, it was still in the middle of Intel stagnation era and aged badly

You'd better wait a bit longer and put the $200 in a full new rig

Alinz · November 28, 2023

I'd say get a NVMe drive for your system and put the OS on that, your motherboard supports PCIe gen 3 NVME drives. You can take the drive to a newer build and it should be a nice jump in overall smoothness now.