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Hi guys
I upgraded a couple of our home computers over the summer with i7-8086Ks that I delidded (one with Rockit Cool cooper IHS for the hell of it). I combined them with Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 motherboards and 3466/4000 RAM.
I have monster cooling on all of the rigs, with. My main machine I have left to upgrade until now, as I wanted to see hot/overclockable the i9-9900k chips were, colour me disappointed! This rig is a TT Core P5 wall mounted with dual XSPC RX480 rads, spacer shrouds and GentleTyphoon fans.
Both 8086k's I have do 5.2 on all cores at 1.35-1.36v bios, no AVX offset (well, none that I apply at least and I can't blue screen my machines) and the two machine running these absolutely stonk along, never bothered going higher than 5.2.
Based on the awful solder/gapping job between the core and the IHS on the 9900K meaning that temps are pretty horrific and I CBA to delid those really.
For the vast majority of daily work tasks and gaming (3440x1440, 1080Ti SLI), I reckon that another delidded 8086K combined with the Z390 Aorus Master board and say 16/32GB 4000 RAM would be just as quick "real world" usage for me as a 9900K, but running a whooooooooole lot cooler/more reliably at 5.2Ghz-5.3Ghz.
Not interested in the 9700K etc. as same thick solder issue.
Is sticking with the 8086k over the 9900k the best choice logically, bearing in mind the great results with the other two computers and the shortcomings of this 9 series??
Cheers,
Nick.
I upgraded a couple of our home computers over the summer with i7-8086Ks that I delidded (one with Rockit Cool cooper IHS for the hell of it). I combined them with Z370 Aorus Gaming 7 motherboards and 3466/4000 RAM.
I have monster cooling on all of the rigs, with. My main machine I have left to upgrade until now, as I wanted to see hot/overclockable the i9-9900k chips were, colour me disappointed! This rig is a TT Core P5 wall mounted with dual XSPC RX480 rads, spacer shrouds and GentleTyphoon fans.
Both 8086k's I have do 5.2 on all cores at 1.35-1.36v bios, no AVX offset (well, none that I apply at least and I can't blue screen my machines) and the two machine running these absolutely stonk along, never bothered going higher than 5.2.
Based on the awful solder/gapping job between the core and the IHS on the 9900K meaning that temps are pretty horrific and I CBA to delid those really.
For the vast majority of daily work tasks and gaming (3440x1440, 1080Ti SLI), I reckon that another delidded 8086K combined with the Z390 Aorus Master board and say 16/32GB 4000 RAM would be just as quick "real world" usage for me as a 9900K, but running a whooooooooole lot cooler/more reliably at 5.2Ghz-5.3Ghz.
Not interested in the 9700K etc. as same thick solder issue.
Is sticking with the 8086k over the 9900k the best choice logically, bearing in mind the great results with the other two computers and the shortcomings of this 9 series??
Cheers,
Nick.