OcUK Gaming Germanium Z7 - Intel Core i7 14700KF, GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming PC

skipper847 · 22 Sep 2024 at 19:37

OcUK Gaming Germanium Z7 - Intel Core i7 14700KF GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming PC | OcUK

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Hi all. Once in a 6 year upgrade cant wait for 5000 series no more what would you change in this?. This is about as much i would like to pay as seen as my last pc was £2500 ive took into count for inflation etc.

How loud would it be at 4k?.

Tetras · 22 Sep 2024 at 20:06

skipper847 said:
what would you change in this?

I wouldn't be buying a 14700KF (or any 13th or 14th gen i7/i9 CPU).

skipper847 said:
How loud would it be at 4k?.

4K does not need to be loud, neither does a 4090, but the model on that PC appears to be loud if used in the default config.

The £800 reduction in price if you choose a 4080 Super is enormous too!

"The Gigabyte 4090 card ended up at 48.2 dB(A), one of the noisier cards in our charts and louder than any other RTX 4090 we've tested so far. As noted earlier, Gigabyte seems to prefer running higher fan speeds with lower temperatures — not a bad thing, really, unless you're trying to build a nearly silent PC."

Gigabyte RTX 4090 Gaming OC Review: Taming the Beast

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"Unfortunately it seems that Gigabyte favored lower temperatures over fan noise with their default BIOS fan settings. While temperatures are excellent with 60°C on the GPU and 67°C on the memory, fan noise is rather high at 37 dBA. The good thing is that they include a dual BIOS feature with a "quiet" BIOS as second option. In this mode the card runs at only 32.6 dBA, which is considerably quieter than the NVIDIA FE, with only a small increase in temperatures."

Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC Review

With the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4090 Gaming OC, the company offers a reasonably priced alternative to the NVIDIA Founders Edition that still comes with a powerful VRM, RGB lighting, an excellent cooler and great out of the box performance.

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jabski · 23 Sep 2024 at 09:22

you could do a slight undervolt on the RTX 4090 and then keep temps and noise down that way

Rroff · 23 Sep 2024 at 09:32

Though there is a big question mark over the degradation issue with Intel 13th and 14th gen I'm yet to encounter it myself including running a 14700K from launch and know plenty of people running them. It is by far my favourite CPU out currently having the best balance of gaming and application performance while quite a bit cheaper than the R9s and i9s which it mostly isn't far behind. But it does have some considerations.

I'm running a 14700K with a Gigabyte 4080 Super Gaming OC (same cooler) and can't fault the setup albeit the GPU can be a little noisy fully spun up but I don't find it that bad - there is quite a lot of margin to customise the fan curve while still retaining acceptable temperatures as well.

Guru · 2024-11-07T01:26:10+0000

What is meant by "degradation issue" in these CPUs?

Rroff · 2024-11-07T01:55:47+0000

Guru said:
What is meant by "degradation issue" in these CPUs?

Bit of an open question but it is a range of issues affecting 13th and 14th gen CPUs resulting in a small number being unstable out the box and degrading over time and a small number despite being initially stable degrading rapidly over time. This include "via oxidisation", "vmin shift" and incorrect turbo power limits along with some other variants of issues.

So far the actual evidence doesn't support the issue being as dire as some tech media are portraying, the 14900 is the only one which seems to be seeing elevated failure rates compared to the normal range but even that is single digit percentages not the 20, 50, 100% failures some tech media are trying to claim - my suspicion is they've been played by disgruntled ex-Intel employees after recent rounds of redundancies (playing up actual but relatively limited issues using inside knowledge) and/or companies who've unluckily had a bad batch of tray CPUs that doesn't represent the broader market. Actual retail and professional failure rates are very low and the company who was one of the first to encounter the problems, and has huge exposure to it due to the nature of their business (RAD Game Tools) are still saying only a small number of CPUs are affected mostly 13900s and 14900s.

The 14700K(F) at retail so far has a failure rate of ~1% - which is completely normal - most CPUs lines range from 0.3-1.3% with a few around 2%, the 14900 series currently is in the range of 3-7%.