Intel Core i5-12600K vs AMD Ryzen 9 5900X

In general faster in gaming, especially CPU bound titles like CSGO, but Forza Horizon 4 and Far Cry 6 also showed improvement.

That's an 800 16 core 32 thread cpu. Now we're stepping down one tier to the 5900x, which is a 12 core 24 thread cpu priced at 550. This is a follow-u...

Hopefully after this crypto boom I’ll be able to snag a ryzen 5th gen combo for cheap. My intel can fix this but it will be years before this happens. They are too busy playing catch up. The power efficiency is terrible and the whole experience is about as bad as it gets

Extra 65 Watt should be for GPU and no need to have a CPU burning 170W. I do not see any additional power over 5900X being useful at additional wattage. 6900XT and 5900X is warming up my room pretty high already. It became uncomfortable during Summer

Additionally, the motherboards for the 12600k can cost over twice as much as that of the 5600x ones. It basically just makes more sense to go with the 5600x at the time of this review, because both CPUs are the same price of $300. The 12600k is not a bad CPU, it's just that the 5600x is considerably more affordable and efficient for the same performance as the 12600k.

If you're looking to build a new PC and want something ultra-fast with a high core count, look no further. Unless you need to have the latest PC parts, you will find no better value than the 5900X, especially at the current $359! This is an insane price on a CPU that will, easily, be relevant for another 4-5 years, and probably even beyond that.

Stock memory support, though does include either 3200 or Ddr5 4800. And recently I looked at Ddr5 6000 performance with the Core I9 12900k and found t...

If the motherboard is using an older BIOS version, upgrading the BIOS will be necessary to support the CPU". I'm not that experienced in building PC's, only done once before.

I’m so glad I decided to step up from the 12600T I was planning on using to the 12600K, which is the cheapest Intel CPU that has the efficiency cores. I was nervous at first, because my plan was to build a low-ish power, 100% passively-cooled, internal GPU, no moving parts PC for use in my bedroom, where my previous computers were annoyingly loud. I used a Noctua NH-P1 passive cooler and a Seasonic PX-500 fanless PSU, and my system is not only 100% silent, it turns in impressive benchmark numbers and never gets close to throttling temperatures even after sustained Cinebench runs. I run my system at -130 mV, with no overclocking, and CPU power consumption peaks at about 100 W, while idle CPU power consumption is less than 2W

I did like that. You know intel. They stopped giving us uh cpu coolers, which theirs were pretty horrible. Um on their processors and amd, did give yo...