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5600x to 12600KF?
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No, although someone correct me if I am wrong but the 12600k and 5600x are pretty much equal in terms of gaming performance (in terms of cost of upgrade over keeping the 5600x) Plus you'll need a new motherboard, so you'll end up paying, say £240 for the 12600 plus another say £200 for a motherboard to have similar performance to keeping your 5600x. Maybe you'll need to buy a new mount for the cooler? Maybe you current cooler doesn't have an LGA1200 mount, so you might need a new one etc. etc.
Just been reading up on it all now and especially for gaming which is it's primary use. I'll stick with my 5600x for that wee bit longer then in this case. Cheers for the feedback and always appreciated!
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Let’s be clear here, most CPU benchmarks are done with a 3090, which exaggerates the differences.
Even if the difference was, say, 10%. For the initial outlay, you’re almost always better off investing in a new GPU, especially when your existing CPU is the 5600X
Even if the difference was, say, 10%. For the initial outlay, you’re almost always better off investing in a new GPU, especially when your existing CPU is the 5600X
very rare is it worth upgrading so soon
but that depends if 5-10% max increases are important to you and how much everything would be once you sell the old parts
if you enjoy building and pulling things apart and love installing windows go for it
if your running a full stable and working pc I wouldnt bother until there is a meeningful jump in performance this tends to be every 3-4 years
If you were buying from scratch and choosing between the 5600X and 12600k then the 12600k is the better choice but swapping a 5600X to a 12600k is not worth it, check back in a year or two and see what's new out then if you want to see a worthwhile jump for gaming.
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this x 1000 . People will feel Intel buyers remorse once AMD 3D drops....
power consumption on Intel ADL is actually very good in gaming workloads.
https://www.igorslab.de/en/intel-co...ng-in-really-fast-and-really-frugal-part-1/9/
Is it? AMD have been shipping TSMC CPU and 3D cache modules to its new assembly plant for months.
According to that at 1080P the 5600X is 64 watts with the 12600K 69 watts.
Does that matter? i don't think it does, the reason that crap keeps getting posted by others is because the 5900X uses 13 watts more at 1080P than the 12900K, that was really important to them.
The 12600k has 4 more cores though albeit small ones and is a 125w TDP part so being that close to the 6 core 65w 5600X is pretty decent, the 12400 which has the same amount of cores and same TDP only pulls 45w while delivering the same performance as the 5600X so ADL clearly has good efficiency in gaming workloads.
Price/performance: 5600X any day
You can use it in a great x470 board like MSI Carbon Pro (~£80 used with high-end quality VRM unlike Asus which is crap - see Buildzoid's take on them on YouTube). It is the same quality as a £400 Z690 MSI Carbon board. After BIOS update you also have PCI-E 4 gen, which can not be saturated currently. X570 is literally marketing, nothing else. The only thing you would need is good memory (3600Mhz and up - but make sure that Infinity Fabric is 1:1) but the whole system would be still way cheaper than the any Alder Lake if you compare like to like.
If you however don't mind to spend roughly +50% for 15% increase in single core performance and have a decent cooler by all means go for Intel. Bear in mind that at QHD and up the FPS difference is negligible and for productivity there are better CPUs out there.
You can use it in a great x470 board like MSI Carbon Pro (~£80 used with high-end quality VRM unlike Asus which is crap - see Buildzoid's take on them on YouTube). It is the same quality as a £400 Z690 MSI Carbon board. After BIOS update you also have PCI-E 4 gen, which can not be saturated currently. X570 is literally marketing, nothing else. The only thing you would need is good memory (3600Mhz and up - but make sure that Infinity Fabric is 1:1) but the whole system would be still way cheaper than the any Alder Lake if you compare like to like.
If you however don't mind to spend roughly +50% for 15% increase in single core performance and have a decent cooler by all means go for Intel. Bear in mind that at QHD and up the FPS difference is negligible and for productivity there are better CPUs out there.
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You do realise the X470 pro carbon uses a 5+2 phase VRM while the Z690 Carbon uses an 18 phase so it's really not the same quality.
Which bios supports PCIe gen 4.0 as well as the 5000 series because as far as I'm aware even if it shows PCIe gen 4.0 in the bios if you check software in Windows it's actually running gen 3.0
By that logic you could also go for the 11400F which is almost 50% cheaper again and puts out the same gaming performance as a 5600X at QHD.