Intel Core i9-11900KFs finally shipping from OC

[richto]

At last, today I finally got:

Goods Shipped:

£416.66 x 1 - Intel Core i9-11900KF 3.5GHz (Rocket Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - Retail

 

[richto]

Nice, enjoy.

Yep, looking forward to somewhat faster disk speeds amongst other benefits. Just swapped my motherboard to the Asus Rog Maximus Hero XIII and updated the BIOS ready to insert new CPU tomorrow. And it all worked and booted first time which is a relief!

 

[richto]

I only see it at a laughable £529. 10900KF is 1 billion times a better buy. Usually around the £370 mark at other places.

Price is +VAT.

I am upgrading from the 10900KF. For PCI-E 4 support and the fastest 2K+ resolution fps money can buy. Yes its not great value for money, but it is the best you can buy for that use right now.

As far as I know these are the first batch of KFs to reach the UK. Only the more expensive with GPU K version has been available up until now and who is going to buy a core i9 and then use onboard graphics?!

 

[richto]

Nice, enjoy your setup mate.

Very happy with my 11900k + Maximus Hero XIII. Solid as a rock stability wise, no bugs, no BSOD, just works, and of course maxes out my 3080 with ease at 4k.

Loading times and transfer speeds with a 980 Pro are just ridiculous 4x M.2 slots is a lovely feature to have on this board.

Yes agree with all that. I swapped the motherboard first to the Hero XIII and for whatever reason with my previous 10900KN even with the latest BIOS it was not stable and kept refusing to boot to the correct graphics card and kept hanging / bluescreening which worried me somewhat. However as soon as I swapped to the 11900KF it was fine.

And yes I get the full 5000 MB/s from my Sabrent Rocket now and 3500 MB/s from a Samsung 970 Pro.

 

[richto]

The 11900 needs to be GPU limited for it not to get beaten by a 5800X. Which is much cheaper. Oh and much more power efficient. Oh and it's only a midrange chip.

Which it is GPU limited for pretty much any modern game at 2K+ resolution when you want max fps. The 11900K is commonly the best gaming fps option right now bar 240+fps @ 1080p esports type stuff.

 

[richto]

Will you do a few cbr23 runs pls

Single threaded 1590
Multi threaded 14877 (Don't care too much about this for GPU limited fps)

(Rog AI Optimisation turned on)

 

[richto]

Thanks
Get the screenies posted on the thread, it'll give Intel some proper representation.

Doesn't seem to allow image uploads. Do I have to reach a certain number of posts or something?

Also that's without adaptive boost and not maxed out at this point. Will update above figures later once I have run full optimisation.

 

[richto]

Usually I post them to imgur, and then copy in the bbforum link.
I reckon you can do better single core from that chip, as you say the multiple isn't of as much concern.
Someone else suggested they got mid-1600s with tuning.
Might be worth a poke about for 8% perf.

Yes, enabling ABT, turning off all core limits and disabling PCI power saving gives:

Single Core 1688
Multicore 16144

 

[richto]

Just not born out in the real world though is it?

4k it's beaten more often than not by its predecessor:

https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i9-11900k/19.html

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2021-intel-core-i9-11900k-i5-11600k-review?page=4

Sometimes, but not generally by anything from AMD in this case. Also that was prerelease or at least early microcode so some further improvements are likely.

Anyway I can cope with sometimes loosing 0.5 fps to get twice the storage performance.