i7-9700k or i9-9900k?

[Gigamite]

Is it worth buying the i9-9900k over the i7-9700k?

What are the pro's and con's?
For example I don't want to buy the i9 if it's having teething problems are is simply no better than the i7.

 

[Gigamite]

usage?

Mainly heavy duty gaming.

 

[Gigamite]

Not much in it...might aswell go 9900k unless you can wait for Ryzen 3700x

I had a 9900k ran it 5ghz all cores...make sure you get a decent AIO

It’s a great chip but expensive...

Okay thanks. I was just a bit worried there might be some problems with the i9 with it being relatively new, and also the extra heat thing . I swapped over from AMD years back. I don't really want to go back to it. I found the intel - Nvidia formula worked much better.

 

[Gigamite]

100%, for the £40 difference is price the extra 8 threads are worth having

£40 and is sort of future proof. I was leaning towards the i9 anyway but thought I would make sure I wasn't missing something.

 

[Gigamite]

So there could be a price reduction when the new Ryzen is on sale. When roughly will that be?

 

[Gigamite]

Seems we have for's on both CPU's. As I said I was enquiring to se if there was any problems with the i9, but there doesn't seem to be any except for it running hotter than most.
My intention was to build a top end computer, thus the i9. There again the i7 should be more than sufficient. I'm going to sleep on it.

What's 'portsmash'?