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this is intel's first core i9 processor the 7900 x it's a ten core behemoth with hyper-threading for a whopping twenty threads as well as solid overclock ability the CPUs based on 14 nanometers skylake architecture and utilizes the LGA 2066 socket the 2011 v3 successor the mother what I'm sporting here is the asrock X 299 tight sheet the model I've been a huge fan of since the first tie a implementation in X 99 you can also find X 370 and Z 270 variants linked in this video's description so this video is all about that core i9 let's talk first about power consumption and overclock ability as a general rule of thumb the higher the core account the more difficult it is to push that CPU to a certain frequency in the case of this particular 70 100x unit I hit a steady 4.6 gigahertz at one point to five volts this mind you with a 240 millimeter a IO which is severe under kill for a CT of this caliber and a single eight pin EPS power delivery format a few in the tech community have pointed out temperature issues along the eight pin cable when a supplementary four or eight pin are missing this board only has a single 8 pin and my cable does get very hotter on the back but I don't think that it's to the point where things are going to you know catch fire it's something we'll dive deeper into in a separate video and speaking of power according to Tom's Hardware the I 970 900 X draws a whopping 230 watts alone from the wall that's just the CPU pulling 230 from the wall that's more than most graphics cards which are essentially tiny pcs themselves tweak'd P States bring idle consumption down to insanely low lows but this is really irrelevant when seen in the context of the CPUs intention to begin with this is a workhorse costing roughly 1000 USD and it will liberally consume power as such nonetheless the Taichi maintained a solid 4.6 gigahertz overclock as mentioned earlier thanks to its 13 phase power delivery system and solid UEFI and I must say this board also looks pretty sweet I especially love this cool geared chipset heatsink and RGB LED array integrated Wi-Fi and overclock support but the i-9s bad news does not stop here thanks largely in part to intel's decision to throw some choice garbage thermal between the heat spreader and the dye of the chip things get very hot this is typical Intel by this point and it's pathetic they crippled their 76 and 77 hundred KS with the same Tim approach temperatures reached a staggering 93 degrees in I 264 approaching T Junction where we expect a bit of thermal throttling at 4.7 gigahertz in the same voltage the CPU did thermal throttle almost immediately after starting the test I should point out that this is due largely important the CPU itself and my choice to only go with a 240 ml a IO here not the motherboard most motherboards will fare well in this regard just mind your PRM temperatures all the benchmarks you'll see in this video will be with the CPU clock to 4.6 gigahertz where no thermal throttling occurred the RAM config with 16 gigabytes of course their Dominator Platinum's running in quad-channel at 3,000 megahertz the frequency which was effortless for the tight cheese and you expect that to next to 9:00 9:00 board the graphics card occupying one of the board's for full length PCIe slots was a reference GTX 10 atti from P&Y running its stock for comparison's sake I also threw in an i7 6700 K with the same Ram config just running a dual channel vs. quad and the same GPU as well as the same 4.6 gigahertz overclock so without further ado the benchmarks first up the center bench r15 scores the i7 6700 case scored an impressive 1019 despite its 4 physical cores but the I 9 giant demolishes the competition with 2400 242 that's a 140 percent increase from that of the smaller counterpart and check out all those threads working together so well this was pretty cool feeling right here just watching this not going to lie but Geekbench for the gap narrows significantly but the i9 still easily wins over something else - no - the i7 clock for clock is a slightly more powerful CP from a single core standpoint and the 8% increase at the bottom but at the end of the day who really cares these are just numbers they don't mean anything let's throw these CPUs into a ring in which I'm familiar that's Adobe Premiere Pro rendering the same five-minute 1080p 60fps file with the youtube 1080p preset the i7 finished in just over 4 minutes whereas the i9 completed the same task in just under 3 now at this point if you ask me with price taking into consideration this margin isn't justified the law of diminishing returns applies this is an optimize for 10 cores clearly in core count does matter less and less as you pass about 4 cores in this case it will vary from program to program but for the most part I would say anywhere between 4 and 8 is your safe zone so if you want something slightly better than the i7 but for the same price as the i7 and go with Rison 7 the 1700 do you just fine this isn't a matter of red versus blue folks I don't care who is on top neither of them pay me neither of them even talk to me I just want satisfactory competition remember don't pay attention to the company pay attention to what the company offers so now let's jump into those gaming benchmarks I tested in 1440p for solid GPU and CPU leveraging the some would argue that 1080p would be the better choice here it's more common by the way I still think that if you're going to pay a thousand bucks for CPU you should probably try to bump your resolution up a bit I think 1440p is probably the bare minimum for how much you're likely to spend on this platform there's a 1080 Ti in here remembers so graphics card bottlenecking is relatively minimal these are settings by the way that I'd expect anyone with this kind of PC to opt for in the real world first up on this list as always GTA 5 this game is beautifully optimized and leverages a fair amount of both the central and graphics processors don't let anyone tell you this game is not a good port it really is and it utilizes resources accordingly I benchmark in the same settings every single time so you can carry these over to other videos in the channel as well you'll find averages here and point 1 percent and 1 percent Lowe's and I apologize next time I'll stagger them in descending order not ascending order across the board the i7 6700 K took the cake with consistent margins with GTA 5 your sweet spot is for physical cores anything past that and well you'll have a few left over for streaming that's about it both frame time charts were extremely consistent - which is good so if a few spikes here or there which both CPUs experienced at some point you'd be fine with either platform in the scenario likely even when streaming but the cost of x-29 9 makes it difficult to rationalize a $1000 CPU and roughly $300 motherboard doom was a similar story this is the first time I benchmark Doom by the way even in the ultra preset the i9 just couldn't keep up these framerate differences were actually very consistent with GTA 5 prising lee though doom is slightly more demanding all around by the way I intend to run a few Vulcan tests with this game very soon I love how it leverages resources and I'd be interested to see how AMD fares into this mix now let's compare a physics intensive scenario and 3dmark fire strike most of these calculations are unloaded on the cpu predicted pathways particle collisions explosions all of these we utilize CPU threads to a solid extent and in this case the i9 crushes its competition hands down more cores more frames for something like this anyway wouldn't it be nice if all games work this way well maybe not since most gamers still rely on two or four physical cores wouldn't make much sense to cripple a majority in favor of a minority from a developer standpoint now what it utilitarianism for the wind up next is universe sandbox - I love this game it's beautiful we can do anything you want practically and it crushes CPUs click this card right here for an example of that so how does a 10 core CPU fare well not well actually worse than the 4 core counterpart which I find difficult to believe given that these frequencies were identical hmm I'll hit up the developers on this one CPU utilization is fairly high and consistent across all 20 threads - which is a good sign more on this in a separate video the last benchmark on our list is Witcher 3 ok this game is extremely GPU intensive what does that mean it's not going to matter as much what kind of CPU we have in our system as long as it's not some single core processor from 2002 we should be you know ok that's an exaggeration but you see my point in switching from an i5 to an i7 to an i9 shouldn't matter too much in this regard because it's really our GPU that matters but I spoke too soon the i7 still pulls ahead here which is strange because the i5 7600 K actually performs almost as well in this game as the i7 counterpart so this is a bit ridiculous if you ask me sure average frame rates were neck-and-neck but for the smooth gameplay 1% and 0.1% lows reveal a different story your best bet in this case is without a doubt the i7 not the i9 again frame time graphs confirm this of course things were a bit scattered here for the i7 remember we want smooth lines low on the y-axis but design 9 my oh my all over the place and that's where I'm going to end video if you're a gamer don't buy the I&I like I don't know why you would just to say you have it that's really all I can conjure from this whole thing is if you want the i9 to say you've got a 10 core overclockable processor I guess you can spend a thousand bucks I mean to get the CPU the benefit of the doubt it is $600 cheaper than a 69 50 x10 core processor from the previous generation so Intel did lower the price significantly it's worth noting that still a thousand bucks for CPU especially in a rig that can be primarily used for gaming is downright ridiculous now if you want to stream go with horizon at this point better bang for the buck but this this is just unacceptable content creators should also look elsewhere the i7 6700 pay serves me well but so has to the rise in 1700 X it just comes down to bang to the buck from what I can see the i9 is not an option in fact it's just a money pit it's a hot money pit be sure to give this video a thumbs up if you thought it was cool I stayed up all night to make this video I was running benchmarks like 24/7 it's actually daytime again so if you have a sympathy thumbs up for me I'd appreciate it thumbs down if you feel the complete office about the whole video or if you hate everything about life be sure to subscribe if you haven't already and I'll catch you in the next video some super cool stuff just made its way through the door so stay tuned for that video this is signed studio thanks for learning