Who is the 9900K for?

[Streetguru]

2 minutes ago, Phentos said:

 

Ryzen 3000's going to be probably $300 for the 8 core with probably 85-90% of the same performance. Might even have something higher than 8 cores

[xg32]

11 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Ryzen 3000's going to be probably $300 for the 8 core with probably 85-90% of the same performance. Might even have something higher than 8 cores

i expect 10 or 12 cores, barely 10% slower in SOME games, but that's still like 6 months out, and it won't be 300dollars, probably closer to 400.

[Phentos]

22 minutes ago, Streetguru said:

Ryzen 3000's going to be probably $300 for the 8 core with probably 85-90% of the same performance. Might even have something higher than 8 cores

I just hope they deliver... Single-thread performance within 5% of the 8700K with boosts to more than 4.5Ghz are what it needs to succeed in my book. 

 

If I wait for Zen 2 and they don't deliver, then Intel I go whether it's a 14nm+++++++++++ or 10nm CPU. No looking back at that point.

[tonymc]

If you are enthusiastic, you like this PC hardware world a lot and also have money, or rather money is not a problem for you, go for the 9900k without problems. Now if the problem is that you do not have money to spend so easily, then look for a more balanced configuration, in short nothing of what you do with a 9900k, it will not do with an 8700k.I would upgrade to Coffe Lake from Haswell, but I would not do it from Skylake / Kaby Lake, but good for me the money is not very easy, I have to think about the updates well.

[DildorTheDecent]

On 10/12/2018 at 2:14 AM, Vegetable said:

People like my brother lol. Back in 2015 he bought a 980 ti HOF and an i7 4790k, which was the best shit for gaming back then. He paired it with a 1600x900 60hz monitor he got for free from our hs. I always told him that it wasn't a good value proposition, but he said and I quote: "I don't care if it makes sense. I don't care if I could get better price/performance. I just want the best." - My older brother circa 2015

If he wanted the best he wouldn't have bought a HOF card lol.

[Vegetable]

Just now, DildorTheDecent said:

If he wanted the best he wouldn't have bought a HOF card lol.

It boosts to 1515mhz out of the box so I beg to differ. Doesn't OC a single Mhz higher but its still a beast at stock. Close to a 1080 in performance.

[DildorTheDecent]

48 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

It boosts to 1515mhz out of the box so I beg to differ.

That's BS, but ok.

48 minutes ago, Vegetable said:

Doesn't OC a single Mhz higher but its still a beast at stock.

Stop it. You're being silly now.

[Vegetable]

15 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

That's BS, but ok.

Stop it. You're being silly now.

Its a shame he lives in Virginia (blame the navy) otherwise I would just snag it and run a couple benchmarks to prove it. I can say for sure it does boost to 1500mhz no problem though, believe it or not. Aside from maybe a kingpin 980 ti, it definitely is the best there is.

[tonymc]

I am disappointed with intel to some extent, the 9th generation is nothing more than Skylake Refresh Refresh Refresh, there is nothing new in the 9900k architecture, only additional cores and high frequencies. As for the z390 chipset, native wifi and usb3.1. I do not plan to update until something less than 14nm arrives, with changes in architecture. I hope that something like the passage of the Pentium D over the 3Ghz to the Core2 Duo with lower speed and much more IPC, was something beautiful, like It happened also with the arrival of Sandy Bridge. The truth is that we are at 14nm since 2015. I think Ryzen3 forced things, that AMD has lifted the flight again has benefited us.