OcUK Alderlake review thread

Journey · 10 Jan 2022 at 16:12

Purgatory said:
Yup finally a good budget cpu for 2022. Now lets hope for some good priced motherboards to go with it, to allow entry pc gamers into the hobby and even people on old hardware to upgrade at a decent price.

Sadly the 10400(f) and B560 are less than the cost of the 12400F on it's own, so that kinda makes it expensive, so it isn't actually a new budget king. What it does do is make a tough choice if you are/were going for a 12600K on a Z690 DDR4, as you could theoretically save a pretty decent chunk of change on a lower end board, and the CPU saving of £60-80. The other option if you don't give a toss about the quality of your motherboard is an A320/520 and 5600X for ~£280 which sits right bang in the middle in terms of performance and price.

I'll be doing some interesting build this year, I can see it already.

Purgatory · 11 Jan 2022 at 06:05

Budget King: $130 Intel Core i3-12100F CPU Review & Benchmarks

Purgatory · 13 Jan 2022 at 22:39

Intel Motherboards Get Competitive: $100-$200 H670, B660, & H610

GreatAuk · 14 Jan 2022 at 01:12

When an i3 has four times as many threads as you want:

Runs some games surprisingly well (red dead redemption 2 around 25fps) although Far Cry 6 seems to struggle to get 2fps

Looking forward to seeing how the Pentium gets on!

Grim5 · 14 Jan 2022 at 01:30

GreatAuk said:
When an i3 has four times as many threads as you want:

Runs some games surprisingly well (red dead redemption 2 around 25fps) although Far Cry 6 seems to struggle to get 2fps

Looking forward to seeing how the Pentium gets on!

You can also put a 1ghz overclock on it.

it seems to match the 10900k in single thread load, so while it may not be ideal for gaming - I reckon this sub $50 cpu would still be great for 90% of office PCs

Cyber-Mav · 14 Jan 2022 at 19:15

mrk said:
But the fact that it was able to still match or beat an OCd chip that had to be cooled by LN2
is something in itself.

agreed, alderlake making zen3 look like bulldozer all over again.

RavenXXX2 · 24 Jan 2022 at 15:25

mrk · 24 Jan 2022 at 16:38

Kinda what we already knew but a nice roundup of the range of Alder Lake currently on sale. That i3 is impressive for gaming for sure.

cfletch · 27 Jan 2022 at 14:01

Any thoughts on 12600 vs 12600K? Not paying for the E cores seems silly, but then gaming workloads don't look like they need more than 6 cores for the near future either. Remembering the time when Intel offered the dual 3Ghz and quad 2.4Ghz for the same price, my friend and I made different choices and my quad system aged much better than his!

Ayahuasca · 27 Jan 2022 at 14:24

If your upgrade cycles are long then always go with the best you can afford now. If you've no interest in overclocking then the standard 12700 might be in with a shout.

cfletch · 27 Jan 2022 at 14:35

Ayahuasca said:
If your upgrade cycles are long then always go with the best you can afford now. If you've no interest in overclocking then the standard 12700 might be in with a shout.

Hadn't even thought about that, for just a little more you can get 2 more P cores with a 12700. There's an interesting tradeoff I guess with an overclocking motherboard vs a basic board and the 8 P cores. Motherboards need replacing so often these days it probably does pay to get the best CPU I can and then sit tight. My skylake 4 core system is due an update so 8 P cores would be a nice boost!

Kelt · 27 Jan 2022 at 16:49

Ayahuasca said:
If your upgrade cycles are long then always go with the best you can afford now. If you've no interest in overclocking then the standard 12700 might be in with a shout.

Agree.

I tend to keep a system for a few years (if it's still doing what I require of it), so I tend to get the best I can afford when building new, the exception being I could have bought a 12900K, but reviews didn't justify the cost over the 12700K for my usage, primarily gaming and normal desktop activities.

~>Dg<~ · 27 Jan 2022 at 17:22

alderlake cpus seem pretty good. motherboard choices and prices are the main issue. also some boards even popular ones have glearing issues. like internet dropping out for hrs and other issues.

we could do with a good line up of boards to use on here would help many considering purchasing. you would think ocuk would do that so people are informed.

Ayahuasca · 27 Jan 2022 at 17:30

~>Dg<~ said:
alderlake cpus seem pretty good. motherboard choices and prices are the main issue. also some boards even popular ones have glearing issues. like internet dropping out for hrs and other issues.

we could do with a good line up of boards to use on here would help many considering purchasing. you would think ocuk would do that so people are informed.

The issues are no different to ones we see in every generation. I'd love to see multiple reports of "internet dropping out for hrs" for example.

If there were glaring issues (above the norm), there would be multiple reports of them on this forum alone as there are plenty of owners.

~>Dg<~ · 27 Jan 2022 at 19:18

Ayahuasca said:
The issues are no different to ones we see in every generation. I'd love to see multiple reports of "internet dropping out for hrs" for example.

If there were glaring issues (above the norm), there would be multiple reports of them on this forum alone as there are plenty of owners.

well i am looking to build a alderlake build and i always do a lot of research before diving in then i know i havent got to touch again until next build. when looking at motherboards and popular ones i was looking at reviews. the msi pro a for eg had the internet drop out issue on quite a few reviews and people having it. also other issues.

do understand that its pretty new and bioses will come out fix many things. just dont wanna be one of those people with the issues as anyone knows problematic hard to diagnose issues on pcs are frustrating and very time consuming.

RavenXXX2 · 3 Feb 2022 at 14:24

wow what a cpu the 12100 is. AMD nowhere to be seen at this price point.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 3 Feb 2022 at 14:53

RavenXXX2 said:
wow what a cpu the 12100 is. AMD nowhere to be seen at this price point.

The problem for someone wanting an AMD mainstream/budget build is also that the Core i5 10400F and Core i5 11400F are quite cheap too,and B560 motherboards are not expensive either. As time progresses the B660 motherboards will also start dropping in price(just like the B560 motherboards did too).

RavenXXX2 · 3 Feb 2022 at 14:58

H610+12100+16gb ddr4 = 5600x price. No point buying AMD at any price tier.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 3 Feb 2022 at 14:59

RavenXXX2 said:
H610+12100+16gb ddr4 = 5600x price. No point buying AMD at any price tier.

Can the H610 run RAM at rated speed??

RavenXXX2 · 3 Feb 2022 at 15:03

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
Can the H610 run RAM at rated speed??

3200mhz is max, more than enough and what HWU used in 12100 review.