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9900X - OC scope?

HRL

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Friend of mine recently bought a new PC.

He thought he’d specced it out spot on and spent an absolute fortune on it, along with a 2080Ti.

However, he thought he’d ordered a 9900K, turns out he actually bought a 9900X.

More cores and slightly lower boost clocks I know, but is there any scope for OC’ing it still? Had a quick Google and there seems to be a distinct lack of OC’ing articles on that CPU, I’m guessing just because it costs a small fortune?
 
Er the 9900x is for lga2066.

When you say specced it out, do you mean separate parts to build or pre built? If the former he may have a slight issue if he also went with a z390 board.

If the latter then it isn’t an issue beyond costing a whole lot more. Performance is basically slightly above. 7900x with overclocking probably in the same ballpark.
 
Yep, LGA2066. Prebuilt.

I did laugh when he realised he’d spent £1K on the CPU thinking he was getting a 9900K instead.

OC details online seem a bit limited.

Pretty sure it’s quad-channel RAM so told him to get himself another 2 x 8Gb to go completely OTT.
 
HRL said:
Yep, LGA2066. Prebuilt.

I did laugh when he realised he’d spent £1K on the CPU thinking he was getting a 9900K instead.

OC details online seem a bit limited.

Pretty sure it’s quad-channel RAM so told him to get himself another 2 x 8Gb to go completely OTT.
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Can he not send it back? You don't need 4 sticks of ram it will work with 2
 
koooowweeee said:
Can he not send it back? You don't need 4 sticks of ram it will work with 2
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He could but he’s perfectly happy with it so why bother.

Thought it would perform better in quad-channel mode anyway.

Remarkable lack of OC information out there but I reckon he should be able to get 4.5 or 4.6Ghz on his AIO.
 
HRL said:
He could but he’s perfectly happy with it so why bother.

Thought it would perform better in quad-channel mode anyway.

Remarkable lack of OC information out there but I reckon he should be able to get 4.5 or 4.6Ghz on his AIO.
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The difference in duel and quad is very little. But if he's splashing the cash then why not.
 
koooowweeee said:
The difference in duel and quad is very little. But if he's splashing the cash then why not.
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Yep, that’s what I told him.

He should be good for a few years I’d say, especially if he gets an overclock out of his CPU.
 
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