It’s no secret that I prefer Intel over AMD mainly due to some bad personal experiences I’ve had on AMD. AGESA in its current form is probably my biggest complaint about a AMD. With AMD I kind of feel like you’re a beta tester for life. For example the Crosshair hero motherboard when I was on the 5900x felt like an R&D version of my Z490 Maximus hero. Not to mention two people I know that bought the new AMD 5000 series have already had to RMA their processors. I have never had to RMA in intel. But 11th gen is a joke! WTF are you doing intel!?
With that said here is a video on Intel’s new flagship. The 11900k really is an embarrassment and I wish they would have just skipped 11th gen and went right to working on 12th gen. I feel incredibly sorry for the people who pre-ordered it. However it’s going to be funny and interesting to see if all the Bots who rushed to buy it only the resell it at a higher price on Intel wind up losing money on the deal. Nothing would make me happier than to see a scalper get screwed over
Here is the video for your mild amusement
Out of the CPUs you can actually buy the 10900k when properly tuned is still the best gaming CPU on the market. The 5800x is and I stress the word unnoticeably slower in most situations
It’s interesting seeing HUB’s testing vs. the other reviewers. They use the same RAM and unlimited power (default on most boards, vs. the manual nerfing others do) and the 10900k usually is within margin of error with only a few outliers like Death Stranding and serious sam.
This is without overclocks and superfast RAM, neither of which the Ryzen parts can do effectively. This could definitely at least recover most of the 3% deficit of the 10900k vs the 5950x at 1080p in their 10 game test.
It’s a pathetic cash grab. Like HUB said, they should have just officially lowered the prices on 10th gen, which already is competitive with Ryzen once fast RAM and overclocks come into play, and been in a better position.
They have to try to please their shareholders though, I suppose.
I found memory clearance was difficult with the deep cool assassin 3 - even with a case that supported up to 170mm cpu cooler height, the second fan was right up against the glass.
Corsair LPX for perfectly, but Crucial Ballistix Elite needed to have the top find removed and it barely made it.
Sounds good, just thought I’d put it out there. As time goes by, more and more cases are losing support for big air coolers as it seems the trend towards AIOs continues to grow.
Hopefully got Icegiant Prosiphon Elite optimized for monolithic die somewhere in the future. Currently optimized for multi-chip like Zen 2, Zen 3 and Threadripper.
