9900k Vs 9900ks

[faceman123]

My friends 9900k died, he's in the process of buying a new one, are the new batches of 9900k going to be as good overclockin wise? i ask as the 9900ks was announced

 

[faceman123]

How did it die? I have literally never had a single cpu die on me for any reason in my ~20 years of building PCs.

not sure - think his psu gave in and fried the chip etc. That's why no RMA

 

[faceman123]

If that's the case go for a 3700X and spend more money on a better power supply.

Good shout might talk him, is that the 8 core how far behind is the IPC

 

[faceman123]

The IPC I think is the same or marginally better. The cpu runs slower though so the 9900k is a little bit faster in games. At 1440p or 4k it's basically negligible though.

Screw the 9900k i'll try convince him to change platform, easy upgrade to 16 cores when it's affordable

 

[faceman123]

And 4000 series next year.....


CPUs don't get "fried". If PSU died more likely the mobo died also, but not the CPU.
Why you do not use his CPU to your system?

Just tell him it's probably dead and buy it for £20

haha! i did test it on mines - dead as can be, as it was overclocked no RMA as it voids terms. Motherboard works??? - tested my cpu in it ( with my psu), also tempted to sell my 9900k now... will the 4000 series have more than 16 coreS?

 

[faceman123]

IIRC, yes but it's not needed. If SM4 comes with it though, it'll be worth it

im to lazy to google what is sm4? i shouldnt spend so much time on this forum -__- just end up spending money haha, so i guess AMD will have two new customers this week...