I wouldn’t say people are quiet over the boosting lots of people have complained about it on here and lots of other forums but I know from personal experience that and boost clocks are not that they advatise like intel do. I mean that I expected 1-2 cores of my 3900x to boost to near max levels of 4.6 I didn’t expect all core to be 4.6ghz although I did kinda hope/want all core manual pc to hit 4.4ghz but only managed 4.3ghz although surprisingly at 1.285v
But intel are the same though there tdp calculations are a work of fiction really
and never tell the whole story yes a 8700k or 9900k/ks hit there respective clock speeds in the right situations good cooling is defo required a lot higher voltage etc then they actually publish and if you buy a prebuilt from dell hp etc the sales staff will always try to sell a k series cpu even though a lot of there stuff doesn’t have cooling or bios to fully use it. Now on sites like ocuk Or r/amd we mainly people who have some idea on our pc and not the average person who brought there shinny new amd 3800x at Walmart with no real idea what the rest of the system is or does.
Now a lot of pc that get sold let’s say by dell come with cheap ass coolers hp is the same the sales clerk has just told you what they think you should buy and upgraded your i7 9700 to 9700k on there standard motherboard and cooling option I will bet from total pcs sold not even half will hit intel boost speed. And sitting closer to stock speed then you realise.
Amd on the other hand gives system builders and end users a much better chance of opt aiming early optimal condition the cooler bundled with 3700x 3800x and 3900x does a protruding good job of boosting in my case to 4.6ghz on single core and a good 4ghz+ out of the box with stock cooler intel can’t claim the same.
Then you have the whole heat paste issue with intel your 8700k to get the best performance out of it needs to be delided and some other paste/liquid metal applied to it to get temps down so that temps are reasaonable at boosting and that you can actually oc to the magical 5ghz every one gets told to get on regedit and here and any other tech site. Intel and amd both lie well not lie but don’t tell you the whole truth at point of sale.
Now I think intel did a amazing job with the 9900k even the 8700k at launch was a really good job by intel although felt very rushed and I felt sorry for 7700k owners not even a year later u got a cpu 50% better simple coz of core count
but a whole new socket was also a punch in the guy for loyal fans. No cheap upgrade to the 8700k even for 7700k owners. I also can’t wait for the new intel stuff to come out I wonder what intel have in store for us all will it be 10nm will it be 10 cores will it be they skip a new cpu this year and wait till mid 2020 to launch we don’t know but one thing is for sure I can see intel and amd battling for years to come.
