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Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake thread

For laptops buy AMD all day long as long as the GPU suits your requirements.

When is the desktop release date?
Have intel actually worked out when the stars align yet?
Is there any report on when they will be available for review?
 
Fire_fly said:
Yep, I was very close to buying a 5820K when they launched alongside DDR4, but then I saw that the DDR4 cost more than the CPU :eek:
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Back in 2016 i paid £190 for the RAM you see in my signature, the CPU, a Ryzen 1600 was £180.
 
The talk/rumours about cheeper 10th gen cpu's may just had the discounts wiped out due to the pricing of the new z490 motherboards.

Preorders went up on this and other sites.

Edit: Good news post in the motherboard section says pricing will start from £130.

https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/z490-motherboards-up-at-overclokers-preorder.18886131/

ScottiB said:
This is just a taster. we'll have over 50 boards to choose from just on Z490, starting around the £130 mark.

Interesting, I think, is the new ProArt board...not aimed at gamers but that much Thunderbolt support on a PC motherboard used to cost a small fortune. When our tech manager saw it he was expecting the price point to be north of £800.
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Imo PCIe 4.0 support is going to be much more important going forward for SSDs (based on what consoles are doing), so I'd be more concerned about that rather than the minor performance difference between CPUs eg 3950x vs 9900ks etc. At least for AAA games.
 
Poneros said:
Imo PCIe 4.0 support is going to be much more important going forward for SSDs (based on what consoles are doing), so I'd be more concerned about that rather than the minor performance difference between CPUs eg 3950x vs 9900ks etc. At least for AAA games.
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Well AMD on purpose decided to screw over its B450 owners,who are the bulk of Zen2 buyers,by blocking PCI-E 4.0 - yet since last year it appears they have been selling an OEM rebrand of the B450,called the B550A. So it makes you wonder why they were blocking B450 and X470 motherboards from getting PCI-E 4.0 - it means most Zen2 owners can't use PCI-E 4.0,so Intel is not at a disadvantage.

There is also some rumour,that the B450 won't be able to use Zen3,which I hope is not true,so it would mean many Zen2 owners would have to spend needless money on getting something they paid for,ie,a new motherboard.

Funny how when Intel adds SMT to their entire range,now they can afford to launch a B550 motherboard with PCI-E 4.0!
 
CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Well AMD on purpose decided to screw over its B450 owners,who are the bulk of Zen2 buyers,by blocking PCI-E 4.0 - yet since last year it appears they have been selling an OEM rebrand of the B450,called the B550A. So it makes you wonder why they were blocking B450 and X470 motherboards from getting PCI-E 4.0 - it means most Zen2 owners can't use PCI-E 4.0,so Intel is not at a disadvantage.

There is also some rumour,that the B450 won't be able to use Zen3,which I hope is not true,so it would mean many Zen2 owners would have to spend needless money on getting something they paid for,ie,a new motherboard.

Funny how when Intel adds SMT to their entire range,now they can afford to launch a B550 motherboard with PCI-E 4.0!
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So is B550A PCI-E 4 compatible?
 
humbug said:
Still scores 10% lower than a stock 3900X.

Lets go for 6Ghz :D
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shows how far behind in IPC Intel is that 10 cores at 5.4ghz is still slower than AMD 12 cores at 4ghz. Never mind that the Intel has to be cooled with a custom loop and needs a big power supply while the AMD 12 core sits pretty on the out of the box cooler sipping power like fine wine

Oh and don't forget z490 board prices are live today and they cost 20% more than x570
 
Here is all the details

https://tieba.baidu.com/p/6662363446?pid=131987095399

10900k @ 5.4ghz all core @ 1.35v. Cooled with water chiller, water temp was minus 20c. Package power draw was 352w while running Cinebench.

And even with all that, it still loses to the stock 3900x that has a package draw of 105w and uses the tiny wraith boxed air cooler.

If there was any doubt that comet lake is the new bulldozer, now you know.
 
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humbug said:
Still scores 10% lower than a stock 3900X.

Lets go for 6Ghz :D
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less cores ;)
Grim5 said:
Here is all the details

https://tieba.baidu.com/p/6662363446?pid=131987095399

10900k @ 5.4ghz all core @ 1.35v. Cooled with water chiller, water temp was minus 20c. Package power draw was 352w while running Cinebench.

And even with all that, it still loses to the stock 3900x that has a package draw of 105w and uses the tiny wraith boxed air cooler.

If there was any doubt that comet lake is the new bulldozer, now you know.
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Good find!

shall wait for more benchmarks/clocks around the 20th then
 
Some numbers from MSI's internal binning tests

Shows that only 27% of 10900k can be binned for good overclocking capability (higher than 5.1ghz), so the above 5.4ghz overclock is a golden sample.
35% of 10900k can achieve all core of 5.1ghz and and the rest achieve all core of 5ghz or less with overclocking.

The VRM's get pretty toasty, with the z490 Meg Ace VRM hitting nearly 80c with a 1.35v 5.1ghz 10900k and 347w

https://videocardz.com/newz/msi-discusses-intel-comet-lake-s-processors-binning-and-overclockability
 
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If that's the case then 9900KS and 9900K R0 can rest easy, was expecting these to be even better with the changes to improve heat transfer.
 
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