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Core 9000 series

@AndreiD

Thanks for the link, i just looked and saw the bios info you are speaking about and indeed youre right, if Asrock do support them then i'm sure they all will (even if the vrms maybe arent as good on others). This is an early day 1 board and i cant see there being preferences from one manufacturer supporting them and another not.

That's helped me a lot :-)
 
Pretty high odds that all series 300 motherboards will support the new chips since the power delivery changes they made to support 6 cores should carry over to the 8 core parts. Even the i9 9900K is supposedly limited to 95W TDP, so unless you're overclocking even a basic board will do.
 
I'll be honest not read through the whole thread had a quick browse but there is a lot of it :)

Wondered if anyone had new news on release other then October announcement and then potential shortages for a while?
 
AndreiD said:
There might be some niche workload where the 8700K might be faster, but in general the 9700K should always be faster than the 8700K if all threads are used. HT is just 2 threads contending for the same pipeline since it's likely that some stages will be idle, it's efficient, but it's still only 1 core.
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Correct, it'd be a very small number of workloads and even then it'd probably be very close performance wise.
 
netdps said:
I'll be honest not read through the whole thread had a quick browse but there is a lot of it :)

Wondered if anyone had new news on release other then October announcement and then potential shortages for a while?
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I love that Intel are seeding the idea of "shortages" already, on a chip that isn't even released yet! Way to jack up prices artificially.
 
shortages seem to start influence the price across South East Asia for all current cpus though. They were selling 8700K + mobo together and not separately for the first few months when its released.
 
I might jump on one of these 9900k, im about to buy a Vega 64 anyhow so i might wait til these Intel chips are released and just buy a complete new build, my boys can have my Ryzen Rig, will be interesting to see how they compare, and when the new 7nm Ryzen comes next year i can swap the X370 and 1700 for an X470 or newer and a 7nm Ryzen to see how that compares.

Atleast the CPU arena is interesting again. Unlike the GPU arena, after buying and using this 1070 a year or so back, i miss Freesync so im going back to AMD, and i always said that the Vega 64 was £150-200 more than it should have been, so at £450 i think its a reasonable price.
 
beany_bot said:
Which will be better in games, 9700k or 9900k? I keep reading no HT leads to higher clocks and better gaming perf.
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HT usually helps speed things up at least a bit because the OS has literally thousands of threads running in the background, however the more physical cores you have, the less of a benefit HT actually becomes because your CPU will be less likely to starve with 8 cores around.
For pure gaming, the 9700k should to be more than enough while those that needs more power for things like rendering, encoding and streaming would benefit the most from the extra threads the 9900k has to offer.

We will know much more once the reviews comes out :)
 
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beany_bot said:
I don't for a second belive there are "shortages". The bloody thing isn't even for sale yet. They are at it.
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great, one could argue that so facing with strong competition from AMD and they decide to artificially create shortages and increase the price. The other argument is that Intel is rather confident in their market power and they believe by increasing prices they could somehow attract more revenue. :)
 
BTVA said:
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great, one could argue that so facing with strong competition from AMD and they decide to artificially create shortages and increase the price. The other argument is that Intel is rather confident in their market power and they believe by increasing prices they could somehow attract more revenue. :)
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Either way, I am not paying over the odds for a standard new CPU because intel claim shortages. on their own product. Nah nah, not falling for it.
 
jigger said:
Especially when Intel have circa 80% of it's fabs shut down and are trying to sell capacity to other firms...
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Lmao, literally none of that is true and it makes absolutely no sense.
Their issue is 10nm has been delayed for so long that 14nm is at capacity and they have to cut lower margin products from the node, which is mainly Chipsets and some other ICs.
 
AndreiD said:
Lmao, literally none of that is true and it makes absolutely no sense.
Their issue is 10nm has been delayed for so long that 14nm is at capacity and they have to cut lower margin products from the node, which is mainly Chipsets and some other ICs.
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It's all true and yes Intel saying they have limited capacity is laughable. I almost PMSL.
 
I don't understand why there would be shortages, they have been making 8-core CPUs on 14nm for years now right?

Wonder how much an i9-9900k will be at retail price?
 
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