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Is it worth upgrading from a 9900k yet?

Vidar

Vidar

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I'm just wondering what the general consensus is currently...

I don't do anything other than gaming these days and was lucky enough to grab a 3080 on launch day so I'm wondering if it's worth getting a 5900X and support for Pcie gen 4 to get the most out of it?
 
I would keep what you have, you're not going to get night and day gains from an upgrade, especially if your 9900k is OC'd. And you don't need Gen4 for a 3080 to make a difference.
 
no idea what said:
I would keep what you have, you're not going to get night and day gains from an upgrade, especially if your 9900k is OC'd. And you don't need Gen4 for a 3080 to make a difference.
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Fair enough, I was planning to wait until DDR5 but you know.... new shiny's.
 
Vidar said:
I'm just wondering what the general consensus is currently...

I don't do anything other than gaming these days and was lucky enough to grab a 3080 on launch day so I'm wondering if it's worth getting a 5900X and support for Pcie gen 4 to get the most out of it?
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Im thinking of getting the 9900k from my 9600k, i think the 9900k is still a very good cpu mate. No need to swap at all, from what i've seen benchmarks wise is around 8-10fps faster in 1440p gaming.
 
Vidar said:
Fair enough, I was planning to wait until DDR5 but you know.... new shiny's.
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I wouldn't get too excited about DDR5 just yet, probably at least 18 months before we see it on a consumer platform and it wont be amazing performance straight away.

Your 9900k is still a very very good gaming CPU.
 
Yeah you're absolutely right, it does everything I want it to do still and does it well. Just getting that itch but no need to scratch yet.
 
If you can't do things you want to, or if it would make you more money - upgrade

If you are just feeling upgrade itchy, dust and clean it. Upgrading isn't worth the effort - to many new things coming out over the next year or two. Not enough performance upgrade.
 
Don't think I've got a particular good over overclocker when it comes to my cpu as I recall the last time I had it at 5ghz it needed quite a bump to the voltage though I'm a total novice and would quite happily accept help from the overclocking gods. Lol Also never touched my memory other than xmp as I've no idea what I'm doing there either.
 
Unless your playing a game heavily cpu dependent like X4, some of the AC games, cities, planet coaster etc then I don’t see the point other than to have something new and shiny. Fine if you don’t mind losing cash for little gain, I get you :p
 
q974739 said:
So... how do you get over the fear of watering your PC?

What's the performance gain actually like?
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Well I've had several leaks even had my GPU sparking lol you just have to go for it.

You can't overclock that much further. But when you do your not deafened by the noise of air cooling
 
CaptainRAVE said:
Unless your playing a game heavily cpu dependent like X4, some of the AC games, cities, planet coaster etc then I don’t see the point other than to have something new and shiny. Fine if you don’t mind losing cash for little gain, I get you :p
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Actually stopped playing x4 and cities because of that actually...
 
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