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[IT Troll]

I've seen one review saying this. The same review that boldly claimed the 9700k and not the 9900k is the best gaming processor in the world or some other clickbaity title.

That would be the Techpowerup review which reached that conclusion; however the title was simply “Intel Core i7-9700K Review”.
Up to now that is the only in depth review I have seen. They tested 11 games across 4 resolutions. The other reviews published around the same time were quite light on gaming and only tested a couple of titles. They tended to focus on highly threaded workloads like rendering in order to fully test the 9900K.

I’ve not fully read the recently published Gamers Nexus review, but it looks like they just tested 4 games. Thought they would have done more given how much time has passed since this CPU was launched.

I know one 9900K owner on this forum has disabled HT because they get better clock speeds and therefore performance, on the games they play.

 

[easyrider]

I know one 9900K owner on this forum has disabled HT because they get better clock speeds and therefore performance, on the games they play.

He needs to man up...Totally pointless doing this. Either get the cooler or get a 9700k

Just added more fans to my 280 AIO to tame the beast

 

[IT Troll]

He needs to man up...Totally pointless doing this. Either get the cooler or get a 9700k

It’s not just about the temperature though. It is also how the workload is distributed across the cores (physical vs logical) and what speed those cores are running at. If running at stock, a fully loaded HT core is more likely to step down (of course running with fixed manual clock settings avoids this). However, there are games which simply perform badly with hyperthreading enabled, thankfully the list is small.

 

[easyrider]

It’s not just about the temperature though. It is also how the workload is distributed across the cores (physical vs logical) and what speed those cores are running at. If running at stock, a fully loaded HT core is more likely to step down (of course running with fixed manual clock settings avoids this). However, there are games which simply perform badly with hyperthreading enabled, thankfully the list is small.

But the logic doesn't work..Wanting more Core speed now is fine...But in the future enabling HT on the 9900k to get more perfomance would still mean less clock speeds...So I dont get buying a 9900k in order to turn HT off....

 

[IT Troll]

Perhaps the games that don’t currently work well with HT will not be an issue in future. But I agree, a rather odd strategy if that was the plan all along.

 

[Deleted User 456458]

Manning up has nothing to do with it. VR simracing is a smoother experience with HT disabled. That’s 90% of my heavy use case. As the VR world matures and the racing sims evolve, HT won’t be a hinderance. Also the extra 300mhz adds nice headroom as VR does tax your cpu a lot since you need to turn down graphics settings which also moves load to The CPU.

In a few years, VR will mature to the point where it performs like a normal game (hopefully). At that point it’s as easy as going into the bios and enabling it.

 

[easyrider]

Manning up has nothing to do with it. VR simracing is a smoother experience with HT disabled. That’s 90% of my heavy use case. As the VR world matures and the racing sims evolve, HT won’t be a hinderance. Also the extra 300mhz adds nice headroom as VR does tax your cpu a lot since you need to turn down graphics settings which also moves load to The CPU.

In a few years, VR will mature to the point where it performs like a normal game (hopefully). At that point it’s as easy as going into the bios and enabling it.

In a few years there will more die shrinks, more efficiency and higher clocks and cores....Just buy a new system then...

Zen 2 is incoming on 7nm...we have 10nm incoming from Intel....

 

[Deleted User 456458]

In a few years there will more die shrinks, more efficiency and higher clocks and cores....Just buy a new system then...

Zen 2 is incoming on 7nm...we have 10nm incoming from Intel....

There will always be progress but I have a 5+ year upgrade cycle which works well for me and my current setup (minus upgrading the GPU once in a couple of years) should get me there no problem.