i7 8700k to i9 11900f

[Kurgen]

i got a b-grade 11900f offer accepted. is it worth upgrading my 8700k to this, i already have a suitable motherboard with an i3 cpu.. if not i will just use it as a gaming server.

 

[Tetras]

It is an upgrade, especially for applications where it is enormously faster, but 13th-14th gen K CPUs are significantly higher performing in games than 11th gen, so I wouldn't select the 11900K if you're likely to have a newer Ryzen 7000 or 13-14th gen alternative soon.

 

[Kurgen]

It is an upgrade, especially for applications where it is enormously faster, but 13th-14th gen K CPUs are significantly higher performing in games than 11th gen, so I wouldn't select the 11900K if you're likely to have a newer Ryzen 7000 or 13-14th gen alternative soon.

i wasnt planning on a major upgrade, i got it for £100 and also 32gb ram for £39.99 , and i can sell the i3 for a few quid

 

[Wing-Man]

8th gen to 11th gen is an upgrade.

I seen the same cpu you did good to get it for £100

 

[jigger]

It’s pretty much the chip a 8900K would have been. A bit weak on cache and runs hot. Performance is a bit all over the place. Best case it’s close to a 5900X, worse case it’s more like a 3700X.

 

[Kurgen]

CPU arrived , DOA PC doesnt post. Mobo on latest BIOS, but nothing. put i3 back in fine. also looked tatty in an old cpu tray with labelled pulled off and had thermal paste residue on it

 

[tamzzy]

damn. gutted. £100 would've been a steal if it was a working chip
have you checked on intel website if the warranty is still in date? could do a cheeky RMA if there's still the intel warranty lol

 

[Kurgen]

damn. gutted. £100 would've been a steal if it was a working chip
have you checked on intel website if the warranty is still in date? could do a cheeky RMA if there's still the intel warranty lol

looks like intel warranty applies to boxed cpus not tray

 

[MartinPrince]

CPU arrived , DOA PC doesnt post. Mobo on latest BIOS, but nothing. put i3 back in fine. also looked tatty in an old cpu tray with labelled pulled off and had thermal paste residue on it

Sorry to hear, that's a real shame. Out of interest what motherboard is it?

 

[tamzzy]

looks like intel warranty applies to boxed cpus not tray

yeah, tray cpus are for oems

 

[Kurgen]

Sorry to hear, that's a real shame. Out of interest what motherboard is it?

Z490-A PRO

Inspired from architectural design with the extended heatsink for having better thermal solution; high speed USB 3.2 Gen 2 solution, Core Boost, DDR4 Boost, 2.5Gbps LAN, Twin Turbo M.2 and M.2 Shield Frozr

www.msi.com

 

[Kurgen]

replacement i9 11900f b-grade cpu on the way, fingers crossed

 

[Spudgun]

Better luck this time - I'll be interested in your impressions if/when you get it going, as I'm still running my 8700k@5ghz as it seems to be perfectly fine for my 3080fe system as I'm only on a 1440p 60hz monitor

 

[Kurgen]

well this one works, it will be a while before it goes in my main PC though, swapping out mobo etc... I will still be keeping the 8700k in another system its a great cpu.

 

[Proto]

720p low settings RTX 490 game benchmarks are just latency tests that rely on high frequencies.

Nothing to do with reality.

14nm+++++

I scored 18 427 in Time Spy Extreme

Intel Core i9-10980XE Extreme Edition Processor, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 x 1, 65536 MB, 64-bit Windows 10}

www.3dmark.com

 

[Wing-Man]

If you doing a full system swap and not just a cpu swap as first stated. Then this was a very silly upgrade. You could have got a lot better cpu for the same sort of money.

 

[Kurgen]

If you doing a full system swap and not just a cpu swap as first stated. Then this was a very silly upgrade. You could have got a lot better cpu for the same sort of money.

i already had the z490 motherboard in another PC. so i upgraded the CPU in that to the i9. (ie ive only had to buy the cpu nothing more)

 

[Wing-Man]

i already had the z490 motherboard in another PC. so i upgraded the CPU in that to the i9. (ie ive only had to buy the cpu nothing more)

then its a no brainer.