Is it worth upgrading from a 9900k yet?

[Vidar]

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?

 

[Vidar]

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.

Fair enough, I was planning to wait until DDR5 but you know.... new shiny's.

 

[Vidar]

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.

 

[Vidar]

It's already in and working very well, just want it under water now

 

[Vidar]

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.

 

[Vidar]

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

Actually stopped playing x4 and cities because of that actually...

 

[Vidar]

OC your 9900k and max out your mem. There's a lot of potential there: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/51796968 look at the cpu score.

Just found a decent YouTube video that got me to a quick 5Ghz that actually seems stable. Not bad for a first attempt and that's just with xmp enabled. Max temp was pushing 85c under load which is a lot warmer than I normally like but then I'm currently only using a single rad cpu loop. Haven't touched the memory yet, need to find my timings without pulling a stick.

I concur. With the 9900K one is leaving a lot of potential performance on the table if you don't overclock it or leave memory at stock. @Vidar, you have one of the best Z390 overclocking motherboards with the Aorus Master. If you post a thread in the overclocking forum and PM me a link to it I can post up screen shots of the relevant bios pages from mine to get you started and give you a good chance of getting a stable O/C.

Think I'll take you up on that pal, thank you.