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3600x vs 9600k upgrade, advice needed.

Saitex

Saitex

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Hello. So!

With my motherboard being on its last legs and the CPU slowly but surely dying, I figured that it's time for an upgrade.

The problem is deciding between 3600x or 9600k.

Now I heard both of them run hot, the important question is, which one runs, well, less hot. I've been having thermal issues since the dawn of time, so if I've got to make a choice on which sun I want in my rig, I'd prefer the cooler one.

2nd, I'm using an H100i V1, will the brackets fit AM4 & 1151? Saw threads of people saying it's fine, and saw some saying that there are slight issues, but none had a concrete answer, so I'd like to know for certain on whether it will or will not fit.

At the end I've got no preference, both gaming performance is roughly the same, AMD would likely be better for multi tasking as it has more cores. But due to the total price being exactly the same I'd prefer the cooler option.

Thanks!
 
The only reason it may seem hot is because in order to hit high single core speeds it ups the voltage to 1.45v or there abouts for short bursts. This leads to spikes in heat regularly.

I avoid all that by just running mine at 1.275v so it never goes above that making it run cool without any spikes. Not saying every chip can do that though.

Regardless though, in my opinion it would be mad to go for a 9600K.


RavenXXX2 said:
3600 does not run hot, even if it did I would still take it over a 6 thread dodo.
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Hey Raven, no luck with overclocking your new 3600X? Did not see any bench scores on the cinebench thread from you :p
 
3600X is the better option.

To give a 9600k a performance advantage it will have to be clocked around 5 - 5.2ghz and even still in many cases the performance isn't much, if any at all but it will need good cooling if you get a bad clocker.

You can also buy a Ryzen 4xxx series next year as an upgrade path, the 3600X has 6 extra threads and has less security issues that effect Intel cpu's.
 
Appreciate everyone's input. 3600X it is.

Checked around and apparently h100i should mount on AM4 just fine.

Now just going to hold off till 26th, in case of any boxing day deals.
 
faceman123 said:
Pretty much the same I can't tell the difference, if anything the minimums might be better, aside from that in other tasks it's a monster
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Nice one, thanks man. I'm loathe to switch atm but only because this Intel chip is solid as a rock and doing a great job. Tempted by a 3700X/3800X mITX sys though...
 
If you are mainly gaming on a 3900X then by turning SMT Off and running it as a straight 12C/12T CPU you will be able to get 100 MHz more performance per core out of it for the same voltage.
 
joedeath332 said:
ahh never knew this , interesting food for thought :)
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My 3950X runs stably at 4.3 GHz at 1.29375 Volts with SMT On (16C/32T) and at 4.4 GHz at 1.3 Volts with SMT Off (16C/16T).

I have created two profiles, one for SMT On and one for SMT Off and switching between them means one reboot.

Most of the stuff I do, I don't need the 32 Threads, although those do come in handy for video editing.
 
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