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Intel Core i9-11900KF 3.5GHz (Rocket Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - Retail
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I'm going by the engineering sample benchmarks that say best single threaded performance (most important for gaming) with decent overall performance and the claimed storage performance. Of course we wont know for sure until prod versions get benchmarked but based on what we know so far this is the case.
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Dave. He has an "enthusiasm" for Rocket Lake and all things Intel.
I don't care what label it has on it. I just care about fps in FPS games and then Nvme load speed. I ordered a Z590 Motherboard too so could have gone AMD but balance of probability this is going to be faster for my use case.
I hope you're not disappointed.
Well unless the engineering samples are non representative then hopefully not. We shall see.
I think you'll find the Nvme load speed you mentioned has already been completely de-bunked..........................unless of course you want to run your new gaming rig with no GPU ?
Not sure what you mean because Z590 has 4 lanes dedicated to Nvme unless I misunderstood the Asus specs that said I can run 16+4 and the benchmark is using a GPU as per Intel Shows Its Rocket Lake Core i9-11900K Flagship CPU Is 11% Faster Than AMD Ryzen 9 5950X In PCIe Gen 4 Benchmark (wccftech.com)? Anyway it's secondary to fps for me.
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Yes...........................and shortly after Intel admitted that the drive was connected to to a PCIe riser from the GPU slot.........................."just to make shure it was using the CPU lane and not the chipset", that is a quote from Ryan Shrout. But you already knew that i guess.
Nope - link to that?
And anyway Nvme is directly from the CPU in Rocket Lake / Z590:
https://cdn.videocardz.com/1/2020/03/Intel-Rocket-Lake-S-VideoCardz.jpg
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Must be Daves Altdidn’t test using the M.2 slots, he used a x16 slot with a riser card to make sure it was CPU attached
8 cores for £500+ bargain
8 of the fastest cores I can buy though for £508.69 delivered. I'm not worried about total compute power. Just gaming. And fewer faster cores is almost always better than more slower ones for that assuming enough overall processing power.
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Oh dear... bless
https://www.archyde.com/intel-strangely-tested-the-ryzen-9-5950x-on-a-non-existent-board/
As indeed are the NVMe slots on AMD boards. Does that not even make you slightly curious as to why Intel decided to use a riser on the GPU slot ?
I would guess that they were not certain which motherboard Nvme slots were CPU driven and which were chipset driven. As a board with say 4 slots will commonly have 2 from CPU and 2 from Z590.
If both are CPU direct I cant see why a GPU riser would give any gain as Nvme gen 4 cards are limited to 4 lanes anyway?
Personally don't think it's worth it , I myself have an 6700k i7 and was interested in upgrading to 8 cores if the price was right and I only game
I rather go with AMD with 5800x also the platform is overall better imo and option for more cores down the line better value for money
Rocket lake is purely stop gap wouldn't want to be with it for next few years when alder lake isn't far off
Lets hope for you that part of the sentence where you said 'likely' becomes true, otherwise you just bought into a slower platform for more money that is EOL already. Coming from a totally professional point of view, if I tried to recommend a system based on guessing and something being 'likely' and it turned out it wasn't there'd be brown stuff all over the fan, luckily for you all it is for is playing games so it makes no difference really.
Faster for most gaming going by current single core performance benchmarks - not guessing - I could be being lied to, but seems unlikely as there are several leaked benchmarks now. And when it no longer is fastest then that's what eBay is for.
Don't disagree but its likely fastest for my gaming uses right now until the next AMD or Intel CPU launch without worrying about relative value or lifetime.
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I've not seen any leaked benchmarks for the 11900K(F), all I've seen are Intel's own slides which are about as trustworthy as D. Trump. I don't see the point in pre-ordering something when there will be no stock shortage, you are just going to pay the highest amount and the least amount of verifiable information. It's your cash though, feel free to burn it how you like, and what ever you have left I am sure the CPU will burn the rest.
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