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CPU upgrade

Jasoncmor

Jasoncmor

Jasoncmor

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Hi all
I currently have an intel 6600k with an nvidia 1080ti
I am looking to upgrade my cpu and mobo in the next couple of months, and I’m just looking for recommendations.
Budget probably up to £300 max for the cpu.
I’ll be doing cpu and mobo, and probably switch to ddr5 first, and then graphics card can come at a later date.
I was considering an intel 12xxx or possibly a 13/14th gen, but then started to wonder if the core ultra’s are worth it over the previous gen?
I see a lot of people mention amd chips but their gaming chips are a bit out of my price range.

Thanks in advanced
 
Jasoncmor said:
Hi all
I currently have an intel 6600k with an nvidia 1080ti
I am looking to upgrade my cpu and mobo in the next couple of months, and I’m just looking for recommendations.
Budget probably up to £300 max for the cpu.
I’ll be doing cpu and mobo, and probably switch to ddr5 first, and then graphics card can come at a later date.
I was considering an intel 12xxx or possibly a 13/14th gen, but then started to wonder if the core ultra’s are worth it over the previous gen?
I see a lot of people mention amd chips but their gaming chips are a bit out of my price range.

Thanks in advanced
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Dont buy anything yet, keep saving what you can as Black Friday is only about 6 weeks away now.
 
Jasoncmor said:
I was considering an intel 12xxx or possibly a 13/14th gen, but then started to wonder if the core ultra’s are worth it over the previous gen?
I see a lot of people mention amd chips but their gaming chips are a bit out of my price range.
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The Core Ultra CPUs are good for productivity/mixed usage, but not so for gaming, you'd be better off with a lower-end AM5 CPU like 7500F. I'd wait for black friday discounts though, since they were heavily discounted awhile back.

12th gen is fine (e.g. 12600K), but I'd avoid 13th-14th gen K-CPUs, we still don't know if Intel has fixed the degradation issue with raptor lake.

If you get a non-K, like the 14400F, many of those still use the 12th gen die, so should be fine.
 
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Thanks for your replies all
Yeah the main use for my pc will be gaming, with occasional browsing / media etc.. I don’t really do any productivity stuff, although occasionally I do tinker around in 3d design software but nothing fancy.
 
Freddie1980 said:
I was going to say there's duty to pay on that bit even still at £240 that's still a bargain. I was trying to hold out until AM6 but at that price I might even upgrade myself to AM5.
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Check the comments you can skip the VAT.

jigger said:
Well it’s like the 5th or 6th, but it’s well up there.
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Yeah I skipped over the 9900X3D etc as most people just go for the 8c/16t ones for gaming.
 
greatash said:
Check the comments you can skip the VAT.


Yeah I skipped over the 9900X3D etc as most people just go for the 8c/16t ones for gaming.
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i think the 8 core ones would probably be above the 9900x3d in most gaming scenarios because if its only really using the ccd with the additional cache then its basically a 6 core x3d so im guessing outside of some fringe cases of a real niche game that uses more than 8 cores i think the 9900x3d would probably not be the best
i say this as a 5900x owner with 2 ccd with 6 cores on each
im pretty certain where if i need more than 6 cores i have the inter ccd latency penalties and whatnot
its probably not as big a thing as im making it sound but would guess the 9900x3d would be eitehr neck and neck or just behind hte 7800x3d
this is just a guess though i havnt double checked benchmarks and im also over generalising lol

so im probably wrong
 
mark 11:11 said:
i think the 8 core ones would probably be above the 9900x3d in most gaming scenarios because if its only really using the ccd with the additional cache then its basically a 6 core x3d so im guessing outside of some fringe cases of a real niche game that uses more than 8 cores i think the 9900x3d would probably not be the best
i say this as a 5900x owner with 2 ccd with 6 cores on each
im pretty certain where if i need more than 6 cores i have the inter ccd latency penalties and whatnot
its probably not as big a thing as im making it sound but would guess the 9900x3d would be eitehr neck and neck or just behind hte 7800x3d
this is just a guess though i havnt double checked benchmarks and im also over generalising lol

so im probably wrong
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bit confusing about the number of CCD thing I'm going to leave upgrades until 32 core single X3d CCD is available, for £200 :D
 
hornetstinger said:
bit confusing about the number of CCD thing I'm going to leave upgrades until 32 core single X3d CCD is available, for £200 :D
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Intel will sell you a a totally non confusing “single CCD” 32 core chip without 3D V-cache. It will be closer to £3000 than £200 tho.
 
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