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OcUK Intel Rocketlake review thread

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ATM,the Core i5 10400F and Core i5 11400F are between £120~£150,and the Core i5 10600K has been as low as around £180. Couple those with a reasonable B560 motherboard and fast RAM,and you are spending a similar amount to a Ryzen 5 3600 setup,but having performance between a Ryzen 5 3600 and a Ryzen 5 5600X.
 
Techspot/Hardware Unboxed said the following:

If both CPUs were available at their MSRP, then the 5600X would be the obvious choice as it’s faster and more efficient, plus it's supported on a wider range of motherboards. But at today’s prices we’d get the 11600K. Actually no, what we’d do is forget both the 5600X and 11600K and just get the outgoing 10600K, or even better the 10600KF.

The Core i5-10600K is $224 and the 10600KF model (no graphics) posing an even more attractive proposition at $200. Those 35% savings could then go into something else, especially if your focus is gaming. If you’re in need of a CPU upgrade today and have a budget between $200 and $300, the Core i5-10600KF is a cracking good CPU for the money.
 
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Just did some napkin maths, and 65w vs 120w means that if you had the PC on for 5 hours per day, for 300 days of the year you use between 90-100kWh more electricity, at an average cost of £0.15ppkWh over 3 years (fair time to keep it) you'd have spent £40.50 - 45.00 assuming the cost of electricity doesn't go up. So the 11600K needs to be at least £40 cheaper than the 5600X if you fit the use-case above.

#justsayin ;)

Well a Core i5 11400F is half the price of a Ryzen 5 5600X, and £100 cheaper than a Core i5 11600K,so at this point I am uncertain whether either of these £250~£300 6C CPUs are really that great value.

Even Techspot/Hardware Unboxed said to avoid both and get a Core i5 10600KF intead!
 
They aren't.

The 10400f on a B560 with fast RAM is the best right now unless you are running a £1400 GPU.
Or if you ever want to upgrade to a much higher core count rather than change the whole machine, the AM4 socket with a 3600 in it, they've dropped down a bit again now.

My main worry is whether the 12C/16C Zen3 CPUs will ever really drop down in price,as Intel won't have a true competitor even with Alderlake. If the next AMD generation is a new socket,then these are the best DDR4 CPUs you can get.
 
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