Is it worth upgrading from a 9900k yet?

Vidar · 17 Oct 2020 at 23:53

I'm just wondering what the general consensus is currently...

I don't do anything other than gaming these days and was lucky enough to grab a 3080 on launch day so I'm wondering if it's worth getting a 5900X and support for Pcie gen 4 to get the most out of it?

andy_mk3 · 17 Oct 2020 at 23:55

I would keep what you have, you're not going to get night and day gains from an upgrade, especially if your 9900k is OC'd. And you don't need Gen4 for a 3080 to make a difference.

Vidar · 17 Oct 2020 at 23:56

no idea what said:
I would keep what you have, you're not going to get night and day gains from an upgrade, especially if your 9900k is OC'd. And you don't need Gen4 for a 3080 to make a difference.

Fair enough, I was planning to wait until DDR5 but you know.... new shiny's.

Jay85 · 17 Oct 2020 at 23:58

Vidar said:
I'm just wondering what the general consensus is currently...

I don't do anything other than gaming these days and was lucky enough to grab a 3080 on launch day so I'm wondering if it's worth getting a 5900X and support for Pcie gen 4 to get the most out of it?

Im thinking of getting the 9900k from my 9600k, i think the 9900k is still a very good cpu mate. No need to swap at all, from what i've seen benchmarks wise is around 8-10fps faster in 1440p gaming.

andy_mk3 · 18 Oct 2020 at 00:01

Vidar said:
Fair enough, I was planning to wait until DDR5 but you know.... new shiny's.

I wouldn't get too excited about DDR5 just yet, probably at least 18 months before we see it on a consumer platform and it wont be amazing performance straight away.

Your 9900k is still a very very good gaming CPU.

Vidar · 18 Oct 2020 at 00:01

Yeah you're absolutely right, it does everything I want it to do still and does it well. Just getting that itch but no need to scratch yet.

andy_mk3 · 18 Oct 2020 at 00:04

Vidar said:
Yeah you're absolutely right, it does everything I want it to do still and does it well. Just getting that itch but no need to scratch yet.

Get that 3080 in there it'll smash anything you throw at it

Vidar · 18 Oct 2020 at 00:09

It's already in and working very well, just want it under water now

andy_mk3 · 18 Oct 2020 at 00:17

Custom water was the best thing I ever did.

q974739 · 18 Oct 2020 at 07:35

If you can't do things you want to, or if it would make you more money - upgrade

If you are just feeling upgrade itchy, dust and clean it. Upgrading isn't worth the effort - to many new things coming out over the next year or two. Not enough performance upgrade.

q974739 · 18 Oct 2020 at 07:35

no idea what said:
Custom water was the best thing I ever did.

Really? Why?

woppy101 · 18 Oct 2020 at 07:36

I have been contemplating the same thing and I’m going to do the same as you grab a 3080 when I can

koooowweeee · 18 Oct 2020 at 10:58

q974739 said:
Really? Why?

It's fun to do, looks better, sounds better and you can overclock more

I know you wasn't talking to me, but I'm guessing is the same reason as above

Robert896r1 · 18 Oct 2020 at 11:12

OC your 9900k and max out your mem. There's a lot of potential there: https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/51796968 look at the cpu score.

q974739 · 18 Oct 2020 at 11:13

koooowweeee said:
It's fun to do, looks better, sounds better and you can overclock more

I know you wasn't talking to me, but I'm guessing is the same reason as above

So... how do you get over the fear of watering your PC?

What's the performance gain actually like?

Vidar · 18 Oct 2020 at 11:21

Don't think I've got a particular good over overclocker when it comes to my cpu as I recall the last time I had it at 5ghz it needed quite a bump to the voltage though I'm a total novice and would quite happily accept help from the overclocking gods. Lol Also never touched my memory other than xmp as I've no idea what I'm doing there either.

CaptainRAVE · 18 Oct 2020 at 11:24

Unless your playing a game heavily cpu dependent like X4, some of the AC games, cities, planet coaster etc then I don’t see the point other than to have something new and shiny. Fine if you don’t mind losing cash for little gain, I get you

koooowweeee · 18 Oct 2020 at 11:33

q974739 said:
So... how do you get over the fear of watering your PC?

What's the performance gain actually like?

Well I've had several leaks even had my GPU sparking lol you just have to go for it.

You can't overclock that much further. But when you do your not deafened by the noise of air cooling

Vidar · 18 Oct 2020 at 11:46

CaptainRAVE said:
Unless your playing a game heavily cpu dependent like X4, some of the AC games, cities, planet coaster etc then I don’t see the point other than to have something new and shiny. Fine if you don’t mind losing cash for little gain, I get you

Actually stopped playing x4 and cities because of that actually...

q974739 · 18 Oct 2020 at 11:52

koooowweeee said:
Well I've had several leaks even had my GPU sparking lol you just have to go for it.

You're not selling this!

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