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Would this be a noticeable difference from a 5ghz OC i7 8700k for gaming?

It's a nice deal if you already have a compatible motherboard.

JoJoCan wrote: ↑ Would this be a noticeable difference from a 5ghz OC i7 8700k for gaming?

No. Pretty sure your OC'd 8700k has the same performance as a stock 11600k. So any "upgrade" would be dependent on the OC.

There are some comparisons on Youtube but this might be most relevant to you since it compares a 5ghz 8700k.

JoJoCan wrote: ↑ Would this be a noticeable difference from a 5ghz OC i7 8700k for gaming?

Minor. I'm in a similar position with a 9900k. There is no upgrade path within the chipset and the performance you should be getting right now should still be more than adequate. 12th and 13th gen are nice but the system you are running should not feel slow at all based on CPU.

JoJoCan wrote: ↑ Would this be a noticeable difference from a 5ghz OC i7 8700k for gaming?

If you are getting new motherboard anyway, even a 12400 would be faster than this one for gaming. Don't go 11th gen. 12th+ is way more cost-effective.

Depends on the GPU though, of course, you should be fine with anything at or below a 3070 at around 1440p

Georgios21 wrote: ↑ Minor. I'm in a similar position with a 9900k. There is no upgrade path within the chipset and the performance you should be getting right now should still be more than adequate. 12th and 13th gen are nice but the system you are running should not feel slow at all based on CPU.

Intel is notorious for new chipsets every two or three generations. I think in the last ~15 years only in chipset upgrade would be from Celeron/cheapo with chipset launch to an i7/i9 on final gen of chipset.

FYI, almost every system I've owned/built has been Intel based so I'm not knocking em. Only once have I done a CPU upgrade and that was with a $40 Q6600 from an e2180 as hard to see enough gains to justify the costs to me on more current hardware.

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Currently have i5 10600k, i believe its a side grade? Lol

cheapinMB wrote: ↑ Intel is notorious for new chipsets every two or three generations. I think in the last ~15 years only in chipset upgrade would be from Celeron/cheapo with chipset launch to an i7/i9 on final gen of chipset.

FYI, almost every system I've owned/built has been Intel based so I'm not knocking em. Only once have I done a CPU upgrade and that was with a $40 Q6600 from an e2180 as hard to see enough gains to justify the costs to me on more current hardware.

I hear you. I built my 9900k system after going 8 years without an upgrade from my i5 2500K that I had overclocked from 3.3Ghz to 4.6Ghz. That old CPU is still pretty competent. I was debating getting the ryzen 2700x at the time because AMD promised an upgrade path. If I remember correctly the lived up to it and that same chipset can take 5900x (16 cores 32 threads vs 8 core 16 dead end I have with the intel). My system still meets all my needs and I'd prefer to get a more massive boost in performance when I build my next system several years from now.

Georgios21 wrote: ↑ I hear you. I built my 9900k system after going 8 years without an upgrade from my i5 2500K that I had overclocked from 3.3Ghz to 4.6Ghz. That old CPU is still pretty competent. I was debating getting the ryzen 2700x at the time because AMD promised an upgrade path. If I remember correctly the lived up to it and that same chipset can take 5900x (16 cores 32 threads vs 8 core 16 dead end I have with the intel). My system still meets all my needs and I'd prefer to get a more massive boost in performance when I build my next system several years from now.

That's too funny... My i5-2500k that's been running 24/7 at 4.4GHz is still going strong and I built a newer gaming system with a 9400f probably at the same time as your 9900k.

I'm debating building a small emulation machine. Can't tell if this is a good deal though. What would this cpu normally go for given it's already two generations old?

DrasticPig wrote: ↑ I'm debating building a small emulation machine. Can't tell if this is a good deal though. What would this cpu normally go for given it's already two generations old?

It’s close to a Ryzen 5600/G in performance but is far less power efficient.

This really only makes sense if the combined cost of of this and the motherboard is notably less than a comparable 5600 build (setting aside the cost of the AMD boxed cooler). Maybe some use cases where the iGPU and an Intel specific feature like quick sync push the needle for you as well.

tigerpg wrote: ↑ Currently have i5 10600k, i believe its a side grade? Lol

Yeah. This would be a parallel step, mostly. The main difference with 11th gen, would be access to PCI version 4 which has bigger bandwidth to help out with newer DirectStorage games. Not a huge plus unless you have a 500 series motherboard.

quantman wrote: ↑ No. Pretty sure your OC'd 8700k has the same performance as a stock 11600k. So any "upgrade" would be dependent on the OC.

There are some comparisons on Youtube but this might be most relevant to you since it compares a 5ghz 8700k.

maybe not much difference for gaming performance, but a newer version always has some better features, just off top of my head an 11th gen cpu DDR4 ram will run at 3200mhz. 8th gen cpu supports 2666 mhz DDR4 max speed. M.2 nvme can run at pcie 4.0. the 8th gen can only do pcie 3.0 speeds for m.2 nvme drives

tubial wrote: ↑ Yeah. This would be a parallel step, mostly. The main difference with 11th gen, would be access to PCI version 4 which has bigger bandwidth to help out with newer DirectStorage games. Not a huge plus unless you have a 500 series motherboard.

and ram speed of 3200 mhz vs 8th gen cpu that maxes out at 2666

buytheFdip wrote: ↑ maybe not much difference for gaming performance, but a newer version always has some better features, just off top of my head an 11th gen cpu DDR4 ram will run at 3200mhz. 8th gen cpu supports 2666 mhz DDR4 max speed. M.2 nvme can run at pcie 4.0. the 8th gen can only do pcie 3.0 speeds for m.2 nvme drives

They can both run Ram at 3200mhz with XMP, it will just be dependent on the motherboard. Intel doesn’t officially support 3200mhz on 8th gen but it will almost definitely work. In some games like Spider-Man Remastered or MS flight simulator the extra per core performance and PCI bandwidth would create a performance increase (provided it was paired with a good enough GPU), though at these prices ultimately would be a strange upgrade.

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