I am so telling your wife!
XD how much do you want for your silence?I am so telling your wife!
Ok so I'm sick of 45 asw with my aging 2700k @4.7 (like most of the time except some super cruise) and have ordered a new CPU mobo.
Don't tell the wife... It's 9900k bundle from scan pre over clocked to 4.9 on water cooling (my first time with water very worried tbh but they didn't do any 9900k bundles in air)
Will let you know what sort of gains I get
Just looked that bundle up - it should be an absolute beast!
Ok so I'm sick of 45 asw with my aging 2700k @4.7 (like most of the time except some super cruise) and have ordered a new CPU mobo.
Don't tell the wife... It's 9900k bundle from scan pre over clocked to 4.9 on water cooling (my first time with water very worried tbh but they didn't do any 9900k bundles in air)
Will let you know what sort of gains I get
Pre overclocked ?
That thing should run stock at 5ghz !
But yeah, you would want a monster cooler on that but it's not necessarily air is so much worse than water, in fact I would be very surprised if it's not an AIO, which thecnically is liquid cooling.
Hey again guys , got the new rig up and running and it's awesome - more of an improvement then I was expecting.
Before (with 2700k @4.7) I was struggling to get 45 FPS in Res site (and some station interiors) and thus experienced bad stuttering , changing vr ultra to low made little difference.
Now with new 9900k @ 5.1 on all cores (so far) it's night and day difference.
I'm hitting 90 in Res sites.! And outside stations which is amazing. In stations I'm hitting asw but that's fine.
Asw is also much less noticeable with this setup - less artifacts etc.
I would say I've gained at least 50% performance gains and on some areas (Res sites) FPS has doubled!!
Incredible. I'm one happy commander
For anyone on the fence about a cpu upgrade I would say go for it!
Also the aio cooler (h100x) is really good. Cpu is not even hitting 70 with 1.35v.
Good to see another example of how much difference the CPU makes! It is pretty amazing how much it can affect performance when often people say the CPU is irrelevant.
You really didn't mess about and got a 9900K tooI'm a bit jealous! Under what conditions is it not hitting 70c with 1.35v? My 8700K gets far too hot for my liking if I go over 1.28v @ 4.9 but only when I run Prime95. In Elite it is normally around 60ish on my X52 Kraken. I'm kind of curious what a Scan pro overclock is like...
Well yeh I hadn't upgraded for 8 years so though I would go all in, and very glad I did.
Stock scan.co.uk oc (4.9 all cores @ 1.35 v) temps of under 70 with Corsair hydro 100x aio water cooler.
It ran at 5.0 with the same voltage but currently I have it sitting pretty at 5.2 (all cores) with 1.45v...(don't tell scan.co.uk!!) which sounds like a lot BUT my temps are actually really decent and it doesn't go over 72 Celsius.
I did tweak the fan profile for the radiator to go 100% fan speed at 60 which is fine as I use ear phones anyway.
Also managed to lower the cas latency from 16 to 14 on my ram with no problems so far
Happy with that for now. It won't boot into windows at 5.3 and I'm not prepared to put any more juice then that thorough it. I could possibly tweak it for better single core performance but the games I mainly play seem to love cores / threads so probably won't bother.
On the 8700K 1.35v is generally considered the safe upper limit
Anyways enjoy.
I backed it down to 1.38v and 5.1 GHz. Not worth the riskalso should be fine during the summer etc with these temps
Probably a good call. 100 Mhz gain for an extra 0.07v is not really worth it.