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I'm eager to find out the 6700K to 9900K gaming benchmarks 
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9700k vs 9900k Gaming
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Yeah to be honest I only buy via themselves or someone with thousands of reviews.. Just launched usually means scams.
I agree, most sellers like this are scammers.
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9700K very solid in Games.... I mean how many games support HT and extra virtual cores, Small amounts of Cache is making little difference and without HT you gain some OC room and voltage headroom too.
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De-liding isn't free!
60 quid?
More like 160 quid?
Rainforest had some decent deals, managed to haggle my processor from them down to 370 (8087k).
More like 160 quid?
Rainforest had some decent deals, managed to haggle my processor from them down to 370 (8087k).
Yep. 9700k looks like a sweet spot for a gaming rig. Enough cores for some productivity too.
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This^
8700k is pretty much exactly a 9700k, but with HT. 9900k isn't that much better either.
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Sounds like a 2700x
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Price / value discussions aside, would turning off hyperthreading allow the cores on the 9900k to clock higher?
They both have 8 cores with the 9900k having more cache and hyperthreading as well as a slightly higher stock turbo setting. It looks like the 9900k is just a higher binned 9700k with hyperthreading enabled.
So if ht was disabled would that give the 9900k more room to clock the 8 cores higher?
This is just curiosity, nobody needs to point out that buying a 9900k and disabling ht would be terrible value.
They both have 8 cores with the 9900k having more cache and hyperthreading as well as a slightly higher stock turbo setting. It looks like the 9900k is just a higher binned 9700k with hyperthreading enabled.
So if ht was disabled would that give the 9900k more room to clock the 8 cores higher?
This is just curiosity, nobody needs to point out that buying a 9900k and disabling ht would be terrible value.
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I'm eager to find out the 6700K to 9900K gaming benchmarks
There won't be a huge difference just yet but give it another 12-24 months and I'm sure there will be noticeable gains. The latest assassins creed games hammer the CPU. 4/8 like mine is regularly over 90%
Well yeah, but for the Intel loyalist crowd. Personally I’d still go for the 2700 for price\performance, but I get that people would want the 9700 for being the faster CPU regardless of cost.
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No need to delid. I would get 9700k for gaming above 9900k in all honesty.
Pretty much all these cpus you can push cache also to gain some ipc.
Judging by the differences between the old 4c/8t chips and their 4c/4t counterparts, I'd say a lot.
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I think it's not using ht efficiently though.. Especially in an 8c for gaming....
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I'd have to agree if anything from my knowledge of video work crosses over.
It's got to the stage that I now disable HT as I've found it to hamper performance once you have enough real cores that can be used efficiently. Sometimes the software will select too many 'fake' cores and leave a 'real' core unused. This has the overall effect of actually slowing things down and not giving any improvement over just using 'real' cores.
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So, ultimate, money no object, throw money at it because you are crazy, gaming cpu would be 9900k with ht off and as big an oc as you can get on the 8 cores and cache?
Best 9 series cpu for gaming if you have to have intel would be 9700k?
And 9600k is a bit of a, what's the point when 8 series cpus exist?
But outside of gaming if your workload likes threads and speed the 9900k would be a consideration? Or for the price would you be looking at HEDT?
Best 9 series cpu for gaming if you have to have intel would be 9700k?
And 9600k is a bit of a, what's the point when 8 series cpus exist?
But outside of gaming if your workload likes threads and speed the 9900k would be a consideration? Or for the price would you be looking at HEDT?
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Rather go for the 8086k as its at 5.2GHz
It's definitely true that SMT is less useful the more real cores you have, just due to the way that multithreading works in most applications. But in general games seem to use SMT just fine, given the example I gave. Maybe in a few years those with 8c/8t chips will wish they'd have bought 8c/16t ones (kinda like the i7-2600K lasting longer than the i5-2500K), but who knows.