New 12900k Build End of Jan

Arthaei

Arthaei

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Max 3.1k budget. I've already bought 2x 2TB Samsung Pro 980 M.2 ssd drives ready. Would like to incorporate a 3080 or possibly 3080ti. Possibly looking at the below, any suggestions or tweaks? will be used mostly for gaming, some video editing.

Also, can anyone tell me the difference between the £400+ DDR5 Z690 boards, and the ones that look exactly the same but are around £200 mark?


CPU: Intel Core i9 12900K, Alder Lake, 16 Cores, 24 Threads, 3.7GHz Base, 5.3GHz Turbo
CPU Cooler: Corsair iCUE H150i ELITE CAPELLIX Liquid CPU Cooler - 360mm Liquid Cooler
Motherboard: ASUS ROG STRIX Z690-F GAMING WIFI
Memory: 32GB (2x16GB) Corsair Dominator Platinum RGB 5200MHz
Storage 1: 2TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe PCIe 4.0, 7000MB/s Read, 5000MB/s Write, 1000K IOPS
Storage 2: 2TB Samsung 980 PRO NVMe PCIe 4.0, 7000MB/s Read, 5000MB/s Write, 1000K IOPS
Video Card: Gigabyte Gaming OC RTX 3080Ti 12GB £1300 or rtx 3080
Case: Lian-Li LANCOOL II Mesh Black
Power Supply: Corsair RM850x, Modular, Silent, 80PLUS GOLD 850w
OS: Microsoft Windows 11 Home 64-bit
Fans: 120mm Corsair iCUE QL120 RGB x3

Thanks in advance
 
Zen3 with 3D stacked extra L3 cache very likely takes gaming throne back to AMD in CES.

Anyway forget being brand extra for normal thickness radiator.
Arctic Freezer II has 50% thicker radiator for genuinely lots of surface area for dissipating heat into air and at proper price.
url=https://www.overclockers.co.uk/arct...-cpu-water-cooler-360mm-hs-07r-ar.html]Arctic Liquid Freezer II A-RGB High Performance CPU Water Cooler - 360mm[/url]= £109.99
 
Unless the 12900K gives a significant performance increase for video editing I would look at the 12700K. The extra E cores do little for gaming.

And as mentioned above the Ryzen refresh is worth waiting for. Only a week to go for CES.
 
From gamernexus, 12900 power draw 245W, 3080ti 363W, so just those 2 components, your 608W(or 71.5% or 850W psu), then you have rest of the pc, mobo, fans etc, and not factoring any power spikes and maybe a future upgrade down the line(next years gpu's they're talking 450W)....I'd consider RM1000X as psu should last longer than the gpu before you upgrade it
 
Arthaei said:
Thanks for the advice chaps
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Sorry, been bit tired up. Main diff between expensive and cheaper boards, more expensive should have better vrm's, better cooling solutions for them, more fan headers, more connections,, things like thunderbolt ports etc
As others said, 12900k wont really give you that more in term of gaming compared to the 12700k, except require a lot more power and produce more heat...I'd save the £200 personally. The 3600mm h150i capellix will do the job, but you pay for the looks. The arctic freezer 2 360 is cheaper and has slightly thicker rads so is king for price to performance, but plenty of people buy other roads.. I have the 150i xt pro myself
Ddr5 ram doesnt really offer any advantage at the mo in gaming over ddr4 except costing twice as much, so would recommend sticking with ddr4 at mo
Lancool2 is a good case for thermals from what I read. I've got the ql120's myself in a corsair 5000x case. Swapped out everything including fans that came with case/aio so have 9 of them..look great but expensive, so it's a personal choice whether you want ot spend the money
Got a 3080 myself, 3080ti a little faster but £400 more based on MSRP.. irrelevant so just got with what's available..have you tried for an fe card?
Is that build a prebuild above as seen one with same spec, or are you planning on purchasing and building yourself?

PC centric does s test between all the 12th gen while gaming to show diff fps. Also hardware unboxed and gamernexus worth a watch
 
Thanks for the responses, I was hoping to build myself, already bought 2x ssd drives. Interesting to hear about the 12700k, thanks for the advice. Wondering if it's worth holding on for the 12900ks cpu though...
 
jigger said:
It’s just a better place to send £3.1k Threadripper is decent for gaming and video editing.
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Your forgetting the GPU is almost half of that budget the cheapest zen 2 threadripper starts around £1400 so your not going be able to fit the full system with a 3080ti and a threadripper into a budget of 3.1k.

Arthaei said:
will be used mostly for gaming, some video editing.
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For this a threadripper makes no sense at all even if it did fit the budget.
 
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Joxeon said:
Your forgetting the GPU is almost half of that budget the cheapest zen 2 threadripper starts around £1400 so your not going be able to fit the full system with a 3080ti and a threadripper into a budget of 3.1k.



For this a threadripper makes no sense at all even if it did fit the budget.
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Agree with this ^

to OP:

12900K is a pointless cpu when the 12600K and 12700K are so close to it in performance.

spend your money on a 3080ti or 3080.
 
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