Just wondering how much of a boost I'll see from my current 9900k to a 12900ks, in gaming? Currently using the 9900k under water, paired with a 3080ti FTW3 on a 34" ultrawide 1440p with a view to going 4k. My system isn't a slouch by any means but there's a few quirks I've been living with and I want some new shiny. I just need to justify it to myself.
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9900k to 12900kS?
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Review here :- https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i9-12900ks/
Be ready for 442w overclocked fully stressed. Basically a 3090ti cpu..
, If you really want Alder Lake the only sensible high end cpu is the 12700k from that line as the 12900k, ks, kf and the non oc model 12900 are a bad joke.
10 Game average from HWUB and at 4K and 5120 (49")/3440 (34") x 1440p super ultrawide zero difference, you will be gpu limited even with a 3090ti if you are wanting 120hz/fps+.
Be ready for 442w overclocked fully stressed. Basically a 3090ti cpu..
, If you really want Alder Lake the only sensible high end cpu is the 12700k from that line as the 12900k, ks, kf and the non oc model 12900 are a bad joke.
10 Game average from HWUB and at 4K and 5120 (49")/3440 (34") x 1440p super ultrawide zero difference, you will be gpu limited even with a 3090ti if you are wanting 120hz/fps+.
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Review here :- https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i9-12900ks/
Be ready for 442w overclocked fully stressed. Basically a 3090ti cpu..
10 Game average from HWUB and at 4K and 5120 (49")/3440 (34") x 1440p super ultrawide zero difference, you will be gpu limited even with a 3090ti if you are wanting 120hz/fps+.
So the same as a 12900k then, same power draw and same overclocks and same performance
The money is better spent getting better RAM as that will give you performance
Soldato
Review here :- https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i9-12900ks/
Be ready for 442w overclocked fully stressed. Basically a 3090ti cpu..
10 Game average from HWUB and at 4K and 5120 (49")/3440 (34") x 1440p super ultrawide zero difference, you will be gpu limited even with a 3090ti if you are wanting 120hz/fps+.
LOL this whole post makes me laugh. How many times do you think someones system will be consuming that sort of power???? rarely!!! for stress tests, benchmarking and thats for the most demanding apps and if your the kind of person that does those things on a regular basis there likely not to care 1 bit about the power consumption. So the fastest gaming processor is a bad joke LOL what a comment!!!
Not a massive increase (some games excluded). You should be able to tell yourself though relatively easy however, play games, monitor your usage. At 1440p assuming your not dialling some settings right down, then usually GPU is the boundary, more so if you move to 4k. What may not show up is the 0.1% and 1% lows, but even then a 9900k is no real slouch in terms of hitting 120hz or so without bother.
I think its really the last sentence you wrote, you want something new and shiny and want to justify it. Do not mistake me, I want to do the same with a 9900k @ 4k 120hz with a 3090, but pretty much in all instances am GPU bound with games I play. Something to mess around with, scratch that itch then starts all over again
IMO and what I am doing is waiting it out until year end until the new stuff comes out with better / cheaper DDR5.@Radox-0 That makes a lot of sense actually, and it's not that long of a wait really either. Considering this machine still slays everything I throw at it, it is mostly about boredom and just wanting something to do. Hopefully intel 13th gen and the new AMD offerings should be a bigger improvement.
Yep, in the same boat. Overclocked 9900K and occasionally get that itch just because something new comes along. TBH, Akderlake/Raptorlake are still on Intel's older node, and by their own admission they won't get into their stride until late 2023/early 2024 with a new process node and Meteorlake/Arrowlake.
For gaming at 2k/4k, a 9900K still has a lot of legs in it; all about the GPU, as we know. For those reasons, I'm planning to stay put (even though I have to repress strong urges!
).9900K is still pretty good for gaming, especially at higher resolutions. Keep it, maybe use the money for other upgrades, like better gaming gear/audio/etc, something that lasts a long time and improves your day-to-day experience in a much bigger way than a CPU upgrade would.
That's just it, there's really nothing left to upgrade. Except for the cpu, motherboard and ram the only thing really is a new 4k monitor and I don't remotely feel the need to upgrade that yet. Its a very good 2k panel. CPU has been great, even stable at 5.1Ghz though temps are a bit to high for my liking.
There's always something to upgrade! Proper office chair (Herman Miller, Steelcase, etc), proper self-rising oak desk, audiophile grade sound system? I can go on as there's no shortage of luxuries to spend thousands on
Seriously though if you're just perfectly happy with everything else you might as well just keep the money and add it to your next upgrade, so you'll have a higher budget.
Soldato
Yeah always makes me giggle when people go on about the high wattage draw in demanding stress tests because apparently that's the only thing people buy high end CPU's for, Stress tests.
I game a fair amount and I never see the CPU wattage go over 80 watts.
but it will still use more power even just at gaming load??
Soldato
I don't consider 68 watts on average to be deal breaker in the games I typically play, Stress testing and gaming give 2 entirely different results, In some games it's more than 68 watts but not much more, Nothing I haven't seen on my Ryzen system, All of these things are blown way out of proportion to do 1 thing, Get clicks, It's truly amazing people haven't figured this out by now.
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no never do i. TBF i dont know what mine uses i never asked before buying lol.
what do you use to show usage on screen like that
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I just watched a few videos of the cpu in action and when not sitting in an hill doing nothing and in actual game play the cpu use age is more like 125w
In your screen show the cpu is almost at idle, get into some action then show a screen
my cpu only hits 78w when stress testing so games ???? 50w???
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Soldato
On screen like his? I know what hwinfo is but didn’t think it’s had on screen info when playing.
Soldato
You can show any element of HWINFO on screen and also in your taskbar.
I did know that. Is it in you menu or are there hot keys to bring it up?
Soldato
It depends on the game, In The Witcher 3 around 60-70 watts is the average even during action, Assassins Creed Valhalla goes to around 120 watts during action as it's quite a multi threaded game but to me that would be a pointless metric as it's not a game I play much, Main game is FFXIV and in that I see maybe 50 watts during fights.