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OcUK Intel Rocketlake review thread
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Soldato
Unless you play BFV because according to a benchmark I've seen (if accurate) Intel seems to run it a lot better for some reason.
259,watts in blender with boost on while 5800x is 142 watts
This chip MSRP is £500+ lol
Soldato
The negative mindshare will start having a big impact soon, releasing such a dire product range makes AMD's range stand out even more. All that has happened is the leader and follower have switched place, that includes the pricing. Intel should really have just pushed the 10th Gen parts and focused with the lower pricing marketing etc. but I guess they don't want the stigma of being good value for once.
The 5800x goes for around £380-£420 considering the 11900k is £500+ that doesn't seem so bad
Thats when it was tuned and the 5600x wasn't also look at the massive power usage difference
Soldato
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
#justsayin
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!
Soldato
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.
Soldato
Yes I know where you are coming from, but at least if you don't want to swap platforms but would like to go from a R5 3600 to an R9 5950X you have that option in the future. Intel chose not to compete, heck they've even abandoned HEDT as well now. They literally have nothing left other than low prices.
Soldato
Pathetic: Intel Core i9-11900K CPU Review & Benchmarks: Gaming, Power, Production
Soldato
@CAT-THE-FIFTH you need to add the Level1Techs YouTube review, was laughing my ass off Wendel's intro. 
Sorry I had to
Dave2150
Stock performance should be pretty wild with these clocks, 5.3Ghz on two cores, with 5.1Ghz across all cores, stock! These auto boost clocks depend on cooling of course.
Make sure you are fully stocked up with liquid nitrogen
The 11900k's appear to be ultra binned parts, which makes the price make sense. Want toping gaming performance? Pay up
Dave2150
Stock performance should be pretty wild with these clocks, 5.3Ghz on two cores, with 5.1Ghz across all cores, stock! These auto boost clocks depend on cooling of course.
Make sure you are fully stocked up with liquid nitrogen
The 11900k's appear to be ultra binned parts, which makes the price make sense. Want toping gaming performance? Pay up
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Intel Core i9-11900K, The Worst Flagship Intel CPU... Maybe Ever!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jVAfk4AG3A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jVAfk4AG3A
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The Hardware Unboxed thumbnail pretty much sums up the whole of rocket lake, worst high end CPU's I think Intel has ever released and they have the balls to charge more for it over the 10900k 