airbud7:

it's not going to cost that much....9900k is a mainstream 8-core CPU. The Core i9-9900K looks set to be the fastest mainstream desktop CPU https://thumbor.forbes.com/thumbor/960x0/https%3A%2F%2Fblogs-images.forbes.com%2Fantonyleather%2Ffiles%2F2018%2F07%2Famd-perf-1200x453.jpg

the question is what will the price be, if its priced as high as the skylake-x cpus, I dont know if you can still call it "mainstream" , you can find x299 boards for ~$200usd, sometimes less, which makes it much less appealing imo.

So it's clocking somewhere around the region of 8700k it seems. Not a bad 8-core. Wouldn't change platform for it tho since negligible improvement with most likely higher power usage numbers. I won't even guess on what AMD can do with Zen2. If they get clocks as high as intel we could see parity in gaming. Else nope. The damn cpu for sure ain't running 3.5ghz in the tests here Intel wouldn't suddenly improve their IPC by that much lol.

Fox2232:

Cooling which is designed for TDP of given heat producing device. So, if CPU is officially designed to produce 125W under default full load, then it is cooling solution designed to dissipate heat produced by 125W Device like CPU. I bet you heard about intel's TDP and SDP. And I expect you to know difference between those values and real world behavior of their chips. It is quite day and night difference once compared to AMD. Because for AMD 95W TDP APU/CPU does anything to stay within that limit. It will downclock/enter empty cycles if needed. But TDP for them is maximum, that's how they behave for very long. One needs MB with BIOS capable to change this limit, otherwise OC may produce little to no positive results. Intel... don't even get me started about overshooting. @BLEH! certainly expected those chips coming w/o boxed cooler. And likely knew about thermal behavior too.

Yeah, everything post-broadwell(???) has been a weird one for that... the worst culprit being X299 I think, when you look at the ridiculous power consumption of the 7980XE (and the 7960X, and the...) Personally I've always overclocked for efficiency, yeah I'm stuck on X99 (because of needing Win7 compatibility), but at least broadwell stays under 140 W at 4.2 GHz (-0.3/0.4 GHz on AVX), so more efficient than a lot that's come recently. Overclocked AND undervolted, soldered, too :P Hell I'd be on Ryzen if it weren't for the backwards compatibility issues.

CPU Score 9 024 8700к 4,7 1.2v I just want right now to re-test to 5.2-5.3 CPU Score - 9 024 /8700к @ 4.7 CPU Score 9 938 /8700к @ 5.2 now I know for sure that I need to know at least 10 nm and just select GPU 1180 by that time

airbud7:

80% more expensive is still faster....its gonna take Zen 4 to catch this bad boy! 😀

I know this is quite old, but that comment made me laugh with how well Zen 3 turned out. Goes to show how surprising and quick the tech industry can be. I stumbled on this by googling 8700K vs 9900K. was thinking about grabbing at i9-9900K or KF because sites like Amazon and Best Buy have them on sale for $340. Probably wont though, I think I will just save up for another month and buy a Zen 3 Ryzen 7 CPU and X570 board. The performance uplift will be MUCH bigger than going from my 8700K to 9900K (plus getting PCI-E Gen 4 will be nice).