Will the I9 9900k be worth it?

[Morne19]

Hi there everyone. After waiting patiently for 3rd party reviews on the I9 9900K I can't seem to come to decision on myself and would like some 2nd opinions.

I am looking to upgrade from my I7 7700K with Gigabyte Z270x gaming 5 motherboard to the I9 9900K early next year but I don't know if it will be worth it? I have the asus strix 1080Ti OC with 16GB corsair 3600Mhz Ram. Will I get a huge performance boost by upgrading to the I9 9900k or not? Keep in mind I am not planning on overclocking the cpu at all, my I7 7700k also is not overclocked and it's running at stock speed of 4.2Gz, whoch brings me to my other problem as I know the I9 9900K runs at a slower stock speel (I think 3.7Ghz) than my I7, seeing that my I7 has less cores and threads but a higher stock speed will this make less of a performance boost also because I am not planning on overclocking?

I am open to overclocking in the future and if you guys think it may be needed but I would prefer not to.

Other relevent parts of my system:
850W antec HCG psu
Thermaltake Floe 360 Plus CPU AIO

Any suggestions/solutions/help would be greatly appreciated.
Greetings
Morné

 

[The Original Ralph]

it may be a moot issue. Rcvd my email notification from Newegg on the 9900k this afternoon, and an hour later i clikked on the "add to cart" button in the email, only to find it sold out. So i called into newegg, got a user friendly customer svc agent who went to the trouble of finding out when the next shipment was due and how many were expected - 100 units are expected 11/30 from intel.

I've got to think that there are 1000s of folks waiting on them, so at this rate it'll be late 2019 before half the population that wants them will see them in hand

 

[hd7970ghz]

Hello,

My response is somewhat late.

I decided to purchase an i9 9900k for a streaming computer this week. I have had Intel and AMD over the years and found them both effective for different things. I used an i5 3570k for gaming and an FX 8320 for editing / multithreaded applications. They were both good for different reasons.

Normally I have purchased the most cost effective setups over the years, usually going with the best price / performance ratio and simply overclocking to make up the most difference in speed. This led me to consider AMD Ryzen 2700 as a prime candidate with plans to overclock and save money versus intel.

However, this time I decided to spend a bit extra and I honestly don't feel like it was a bad decision.

AMD Ryzen 2700 - $420.00 Canadian
Intel i9 9900k - $689.00

Difference of $269.00.

I spent approximately $270.00 extra going with Intel versus AMD. I had an old Noctua NH-D14 sitting around that works perfectly. That really isn't too much more in the end if it lasts just as long as an AMD Ryzen system. Over 5 years if you calculated the expense it's approximately 14 cents more a day... That's a soda pop every week. Is that really THAT much more? Nope.

If I decided to go with Ryzen for the sake of "future proofing" for further iterations in socket AM4, then I would ultimately be spending more money upgrading to Ryzen 3000 level CPU's for MAYBE a 10% increase in performance over 2000 level CPU's, which would bring it on par or a bit better than Intel 9900k levels. In the end it would be no more cost effective if 5 years is a reasonable goal for a new build.

In terms of comparison between i9 9900k verss i7 9700k or i7 8700k - my response would be that over the next few years threads will become increasingly important for all applications whether they be gaming, multimedia or everyday use. In the end, the need for BOTH Intel and AMD systems is becoming unnecessary with increasing core counts on both setups.

On a side note, I have been told that AMD systems benefit a lot from speedy DDR4 Ram. In which case I would have spent more on Ram which would have closed the price difference between Intel and AMD systems.

**The other alternative I considered was to upgrade to AMD Threadripper, but the price would have become FAR more for TR4 motherboard, CPU and Quad channel memory.**


Thanks,
HD7970ghz