With the release of Alder Lake less than a week away and the "Lakes" thread having turned into a nightmare to navigate I thought it might be a good time to start a discussion thread solely for Alder Lake.
When Each components alone suck more than 400 watts, that's how
Someone with the budget for the 12900KS and 3090 Ti should have enough for a premium 1500W PSUIt's pretty unrealistic to have both pegged at 100% though, unless you are imposing some sort of artificial stress test on it. My 12900K doesn't even use 100W in gaming, granted its not overclocked to 5.5GHz all core or whatever. If thats your thing, then yeah, maybe those 1500W PSUs might be a good idea
Isn't that the first thing most of us do? Would be funny if someone smoked their PSU within the first 24 hours doing this.It's pretty unrealistic to have both pegged at 100% though, unless you are imposing some sort of artificial stress test on it.
Yeah but the online PSU calculators will dupe people into thinking 1000W would be sufficient.Someone with the budget for the 12900KS and 3090 Ti should have enough for a premium 1500W PSU
I'm pretty sure its sufficient as long as you aren't overclocking both the CPU and GPU.Yeah but the online PSU calculators will dupe people into thinking 1000W would be sufficient.
It was drawing 400+ Watts with stock settings. I was not being OverclockedRealistically speaking, only seasoned overclockers would have the means to push a 12900KS upwards of 400W (and have it run stable without throttling!),
It was drawing 400+ Watts with stock settings. I was not being Overclocked
"As for overclocking, we didn't try to push the 12900KS further as it's clearly thermally limited in our setup. We imagine very few will seriously overclock this CPU, it seems like something reserved for extreme overclocking using liquid nitrogen. "
Intel Core i9-12900KS Review
Not wanting to give up the performance crown after finally winning it back, Intel has been saving the very best 12900K silicon they could produce, binning it...www.techspot.com
426W is system power consumption though, not the CPU alone. I am still surprised at how much more power the 12900KS is pulling relative to the 12900K though - don't they both have a 241W PL2 limit?
These guys later went ahead and tested RAM OC for two sets of DDR4 and DDR5: Hynix DJR and Samsung B-die for DDR4 and Micron (the early crap DDR5) and Hynix (newer and better DDR5). The results are interesting, though the conclusion doesn't change too much. It depends on the game as to which one (DDR4 or DDR5) is better.There was testing when ADL was released, DDR4 4000'ish vs DDR5 6400 and it was very similar performance. I can't find that video right now, but many games were tested by some russian site.
EDIT: found it, was actually DDR5 5400CL34, so DDR5 6400CL32 would improve performance some more.
Indeed..!Wow. That Doom on Nightmare Quality can actually prove to be a nightmare with 12900KS and 3090 Ti.
ATX 3.0, you mean.And AVX 3.0 adds much more stringent requirements,
Haha, yeah. AVX does the oppositeATX 3.0, you mean.
Guys, why is the focus on 12900K? Or 12900KS? These are marketing CPUs, period.
Can you share your Geekbench results, please?
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z690 AORUS MASTER - Geekbench
Benchmark results for a Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z690 AORUS MASTER with an Intel Core i9-12900K processor.browser.geekbench.com
Or a 1600W.Someone with the budget for the 12900KS and 3090 Ti should have enough for a premium 1500W PSU
Our internal data show that the IHS on 12th Gen desktop processors may have slight deflection after installation in the socket. Such minor deflection is expected and does not cause the processor to run outside of specifications. We strongly recommend against any modifications to the socket or independent loading mechanism. Such modifications would result in the processor being run outside of specifications and may void any product warranties." —Intel Spokesperson to Tom's Hardware.
The mod may lower downward pressure too much resulting in imperfect pin contact from the socket. Obviously this will result in myriad of massive problems.Now I wonder what is 'running outside of specifications' of a processor...