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Core 9000 series

I might have missed it, but it is a little bit worrying, when intel have a mass new release and OcUK have absolutely no marketing to herald it, nothing for their preorders, bar the links on the purchase, no links, no bundles, no offers.
The closest Gibbo came was say buy AMD now as prices of everything are going to go through the roof.
Very telling.
We shall see.
 
easyrider said:
Says up to 40 in the spec....?
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i9 9900K has 16 pci-e lanes and the 8 pci-e lanes to chipset.
Everything else runs on those 8 lanes, regardless how many the chipset can provide.

AMD Ryzen (5/7/3) have 24 lanes to the CPU + 8 lanes to the chipset.
Hence you can connect an M.2 directly to the CPU and another one to the motherboard, without starving them.

Assuming you didn't got confused with the i9 9900X.
 
Panos said:
i9 9900K has 16 pci-e lanes and the 8 pci-e lanes to chipset.
Everything else runs on those 8 lanes, regardless how many the chipset can provide.

AMD Ryzen (5/7/3) have 24 lanes to the CPU + 8 lanes to the chipset.
Hence you can connect an M.2 directly to the CPU and another one to the motherboard, without starving them.

Assuming you didn't got confused with the i9 9900X.
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Oh right...don’t need all that...for my uses...so I’m sure 9900k will be fine :p
 
Panos said:
i9 9900K has 16 pci-e lanes and the 8 pci-e lanes to chipset.
Everything else runs on those 8 lanes, regardless how many the chipset can provide.

AMD Ryzen (5/7/3) have 24 lanes to the CPU + 8 lanes to the chipset.
Hence you can connect an M.2 directly to the CPU and another one to the motherboard, without starving them.

Assuming you didn't got confused with the i9 9900X.
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This lovely guy is right
 
Panos said:
Audio is something unknown to me. If you had asked something for TensorFlow, I could have said grab a Vega 64 before they disappear :p
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The 9900k should be killer for a DAW ( Digital Audio Workstation )

The 8700k trounces Ryzen 2 in DAW bench :)

Fingers crossed Ryzen 3 will sort out its latency issues...cause if it does it could be a killer chip !
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Also £500 from the US,with warranty in the US. LOL,are people that desperate to go to such levels to just get some new shiny. In another year the 10NM Intel CPUs will be out and AMD will have gone to 7NM by then too.
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Warranty is international. Even a UK bought CPU is sent abroad for RMA. Ordering from the US is no different than ordering from the UK (other than longer shipping), desperation would be paying the UK retailer surcharge to get one on release day.

There is always something new on the horizon, but there is no guarantee that the new lithography will result in faster chips. I can’t see Intel matching the 9900k on 10nm any time soon. Rumoured 8-core samples of Zen 2 have been reported to run at 4Ghz with 4.5Ghz boost. So assuming they can improve on this and achieve 10-15% IPC they might match the 9900k. I’d be surprised if we see anything other than power efficiency savings from the first round of the next gen.
 
Panos said:
You do realise that you might be better hold until 2920X comes out yes? Because if OCUK maintains similar pricing they have for 2950X, it will be between £550-600.
A far superior CPU for what you want, considering some other more inclusive benchmarks than yours, show that HEDT platforms high count of cores and pci-e lanes boost the performance on these tasks.
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Is it though? Is the 2920x better for low latency real time rendering in the DAW?
 
IT Troll said:
Warranty is international. Even a UK bought CPU is sent abroad for RMA. Ordering from the US is no different than ordering from the UK (other than longer shipping), desperation would be paying the UK retailer surcharge to get one on release day.

There is always something new on the horizon, but there is no guarantee that the new lithography will result in faster chips. I can’t see Intel matching the 9900k on 10nm any time soon. Rumoured 8-core samples of Zen 2 have been reported to run at 4Ghz with 4.5Ghz boost. So assuming they can improve on this and achieve 10-15% IPC they might match the 9900k. I’d be surprised if we see anything other than power efficiency savings from the first round of the next gen.
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Except the core count would most likely go up in both cases,since AMD will try and do this so Intel has to respond. So that 8 core won't be as high up the range anymore.

Nah,I personally wouldn't spend £600 on 8 core consumer socket CPU,not at the arse end of 14nm. Intel knows this so is milking 14nm for what it is worth IMHO.

Nearer to £400 makes more sense IMHO and even then that would be not cheap for a non-HEDT socket CPU.

At £600 that is £250 to £300 more than what you could have gotten the Core i7 8700K for and for only an extra two cores.
 
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CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Nearer to £400 makes more sense IMHO and even then that would be not cheap for a non-HEDT socket CPU.

At £600 that is £250 to £300 more than what you could have gotten the Core i7 8700K for and for only an extra two cores.
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I agree that £400 makes more sense. The RRP is £100 too much, then we have the crazy UK markup, which is also affecting the current UK price of the 8700K; £470, really? So just £30 extra gets you a 9900K with more cores, higher clocks, solder, and some hardware fixes. Bargain!
 
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