Core i9 9900k Builders Thread

[LTC8K6]

Anyone by any chance have an m2*6mm tapered screw they can donate? Stripped out one on the m.2 slot of my ASUS Hero.

If it stripped out, a new screw may not help...

 

[The Sauce]

I got it out. I just need a replacement. The only option is to buy a whole laptop screw set of like 200 screws. ASUS CS are being douchenozzles and won’t cough up the screw.

 

[Arachnotronic]

Amazon was taking forever to ship the chip, so I cancelled the order. Just going to wait for 2019 CPUs at this point.

 

[Markfw]

Amazon now has the 9900k at $1000

And conversely had the 1950x @ 650

 

[Hitman928]

I got it out. I just need a replacement. The only option is to buy a whole laptop screw set of like 200 screws. ASUS CS are being douchenozzles and won’t cough up the screw.

Are you talking about the screw that holds the drive down or you stripped out the stand off?

 

[AdamK47]

First impressions please 🙂

Played with it this weekend. Not really overclocking it much. I want a cool and absolutely stable system. Just bumped it up to 4.8 on all cores (4.9 on four and 5.0 on two). Bumped the uncore/cache to 4.5GHz.

Compared my 3DMark Timespy results to that of the 10 core 6950X with two 1080s in SLI I had just two years ago. It beats it in all categories.

https://www.3dmark.com/compare/spy/4936270/spy/20356#

 

[DrMrLordX]

Amazon was taking forever to ship the chip, so I cancelled the order. Just going to wait for 2019 CPUs at this point.

That really sucks. Sorry man. Kinda the same thing that happened to me with my motherboard in 2017.

Amazon now has the 9900k at $1000

Funny, eBay had a few for $600 from reputable sellers. Hell there's still one for under $600, with free shipping . . . from a 99.4% seller. How is that not gone already? Otherwise most of them are going for $750-$800 and up.

 

[LTC8K6]

I got it out. I just need a replacement. The only option is to buy a whole laptop screw set of like 200 screws. ASUS CS are being douchenozzles and won’t cough up the screw.

https://www.amazon.com/Team-Losi-Flathead-Screws-6mm/dp/B004EWZ3NY

 

[The Sauce]

Thanks. I know how to buy them. It's just that they sell them in 200 packs for like 10 bucks and I'm pretty sure someone around here probably has about 199 sitting around doing nothing right now. No big deal.

 

[LTC8K6]

Thanks. I know how to buy them. It's just that they sell them in 200 packs for like 10 bucks and I'm pretty sure someone around here probably has about 199 sitting around doing nothing right now. No big deal.

A hardware store will sell you one or just a few.

 

[The Sauce]

Woohoo! Looks like Amazon just got stock on 9700k's. They just updated my order with a delivery date of Thursday. Also re-upped the price from $385 to $409. Glad I ordered when it hit $385 and locked that in.

 

[LTC8K6]

Out of stock for me already.

 

[The Sauce]

Maybe the pre-orders went through whatever stock they had.

Oh also, if you are trying to buy a Gen 9 may want to update your sig. 😛

 

[LTC8K6]

Maybe the pre-orders went through whatever stock they had.

Oh also, if you are trying to buy a Gen 9 may want to update your sig. 😛

My sig is actually pro-intel, but you had to be there back in the day... 😀

 

[AdamK47]

Tweaked many settings this Thanksgiving weekend. Got my score much higher while retaining stability. CPU at 4.9GHz all cores (5.1GHz single core). It now beats my previous 6950X at 4.125GHz.

 

[fastamdman]

That is a great score. What ram frequency and timings are you running? I noticed that cinebench loves fast ram timings, specifically lowering I think it was TRAS maybe, helped drastically. I will have to check when I get home. I know my trident kit with xmp enabled had a setting for something that was like 580 or 560. I was able to lower that down to sub 500 and my scores went up a lot. Might be something you want to look into.

I was really lucky with my 9900k. I recently rebuilt my system. Current setup is a Corsair obsidian 900D, Strix z390-E gaming, 9900k, Gigabyte RTX 2080. Absolutely loving the setup, but I am ready to upgrade from my old kraken x61 to something much better.

I am finally ready to swap over to a custom loop (I know I know, I have a 900D, I should already be on a custom loop xD)

 

[AdamK47]

I'm currently using 2x16GB (32GB) G.SKILL Ripjaws V. Stock settings are 3200 speed with 16-18-18-38 timings. I'm running them at 3333 with 16-18-18-34 timings and a 1T command rate. Being 16GB DIMMs they are dual rank, which makes them faster at equivalent clock speeds verses single rank modules.

I have 2x16GB (32GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 3200 14-14-14-34 coming to me at the end of this week (model F4-3200C14D-32GTZR). This memory is also dual rank, but uses select Samsung B-Die chips. Should be fun to play around with.

 

[JoeRambo]

I have 2x16GB (32GB) G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 3200 14-14-14-34 coming to me at the end of this week (model F4-3200C14D-32GTZR). This memory is also dual rank, but uses select Samsung B-Die chips. Should be fun to play around with.

Dual Rank B-Die is a somewhat of waste in 4 DIMM slot motherboards. Impossible to break 3400-3600 and they usually have a sweet spot ~3200CL14 or so @1.4V, so You won't be getting big improvement versus 3200CL16
So unless You have one of those 2-DIMM slot mobos, best idea is to buy 4x8GB kits of B-Die dram.

 

[fastamdman]

Dual Rank B-Die is a somewhat of waste in 4 DIMM slot motherboards. Impossible to break 3400-3600 and they usually have a sweet spot ~3200CL14 or so @1.4V, so You won't be getting big improvement versus 3200CL16
So unless You have one of those 2-DIMM slot mobos, best idea is to buy 4x8GB kits of B-Die dram.

Wouldn't dual channel always be quicker with 2 sticks instead of 4?

 

[JoeRambo]

Wouldn't dual channel always be quicker with 2 sticks instead of 4?

AdamK47 has dual rank DIMMs, and those are harder to clock than single rank ones. So in his case 4x8GB is better than 2x16GB (dual ranked ones). It takes a special layout motherboard with 2 slots to properly clock those dual rank modules.
You can see that impact in QVL for memory in 4-slot mobos, heck sometimes due to signal integrity and termination they go ~4000 for 2 single rank sticks and 4266 or so for 4 sticks

 

[AdamK47]

Dual Rank B-Die is a somewhat of waste in 4 DIMM slot motherboards. Impossible to break 3400-3600 and they usually have a sweet spot ~3200CL14 or so @1.4V, so You won't be getting big improvement versus 3200CL16
So unless You have one of those 2-DIMM slot mobos, best idea is to buy 4x8GB kits of B-Die dram.

Dual rank 3200 at low latency is actually what I'm looking for. The RAM that's coming is rated 3200 14-14-14-34 with 1.35V. If I can also get 1T like I can with my current RAM I will be all set. Looks like I should be able to since that's mostly on the memory controller to handle it.

 

[badb0y]

Specs are in my sig. Whens stress testing at 5.0 Ghz this thing easily gets to mid 80s. One of the hottest chips I have dealt with.This was my cinebench, only ran it twice.

 

[Zucker2k]

Specs are in my sig. Whens stress testing at 5.0 Ghz this thing easily gets to mid 80s. One of the hottest chips I have dealt with.View attachment 1110This was my cinebench, only ran it twice.

What stress-testing software are you using? If the app incorporates AVX code, have you changed the AVX offset?

 

[badb0y]

What stress-testing software are you using? If the app incorporates AVX code, have you changed the AVX offset?

I used Prime95 26.6 with custom settings as per der8auer in this video for 8 hours. Then I used RealBench for another 8 hours and then after that I ran Intel Burn Test for another 6 hours before I stopped. The highest temps were seen with Prime95 (in the 80s).

I don't use an AVX offset but I don't think any of the apps I used use AVX instructions.

 

[AdamK47]

I test with AVX code.

If it passes with AVX (no offset), it normally passes with most anything. Of course I don't only use AVX software for testing.