9900k to 5950x??

[subbytna]

I'd say no, unless you're looking to do something esle that would make use of the extra cores. For gaming it'll be almost impossible to see any difference.

 

[subbytna]

Updates to OS scheduler may be required to make the best use of the high performance cores, otherwise it's totally possible to get suboptimal performance out of the 12900K. (Recall the Windows 10 1903 scheduler update for Ryzen's CCX groups)

AMD R9 Nano

Is that a MITX build?

 

[voidshatter]

AMD R9 Nano

Is that a MITX build?

Yes, AMD GPU is the best for running Linux.

 

[hash70]

go for alderlake

 

[MartinPrince]

go for alderlake

No don't. Especially if gaming at 4k on a 3090 as they'll be very little improvement over a 5.1Ghz 9900K.

 

[Vimes]

I also run my 9900k at 5.1Ghz all core overclock. I game at 1440p with a 3070, seems about right from what I expect. I would like to feel there could be a reason, other than shiny and new, to invest into a AL / AMD platform. But I am struggling to do so, especially for the cost. Even with DDR4 choices for the AL, reduced costs, the differences in real terms would be minimal with my use, and probably not noticeable.
Looking at the AMD platform, still wating for the 3D cache changes, but likely the 9900k would still be the appropriate choice.
My wallet thanks me, altho I still like to play the basket game - just hope I don't pull the trigger.

 

[Dave2150]

Unless it worse in gaming than its predecessor, which is entirely possible given that Rocketlake is worse than cometlake.

This turned out to be completely wrong. The 12900k is the fastest gaming CPU you can buy, it also uses less power than Ryzen during gaming workloads, so is highly recommended

 

[Minstadave]

This turned out to be completely wrong. The 12900k is the fastest gaming CPU you can buy, it also uses less power than Ryzen during gaming workloads, so is highly recommended

Weren't you saying everything is GPU bound so gaming CPU performance wasn't important up to release date?

 

[Hayte]

If you mainly do gaming I'm not sure why you would consider a 5950x anyway. Core counts like that are for heavily threaded applications where you do lots of work that isn't real-time, doesn't have a lot of inter dependencies and thus the job can be split up into lots of smaller parts that can be processed in parallel, at the same time (as opposed to sequentially, or one after the other).

Jobs like rebuilding modifer parameters in 3DS Max (especially on high poly models with big modifier stacks since that can take aaaaages). Things like code compilation benefit greatly as well as any type of offline rendering (3d, 2d, video and audio).

 

[MartinPrince]

This turned out to be completely wrong. The 12900k is the fastest gaming CPU you can buy, it also uses less power than Ryzen during gaming workloads, so is highly recommended

Though not in this scenario, so try reading what the OP - Speirs requires a little more carefully and actually concentrate on helping them rather than just posting your standard "Intel is the greatest" rhetoric.