Hello everybody.

I have a good old buid from 2015: i7 4790K (stock speed), 32 GB RAM DDR3, 500 GB SSD, GTX 980Ti. It’s still great for work and some casual mid quality gaming. However, this hardware is getting old and some of it could die any moment. Actually the original motherboard I bought already died a couple of years ago.

Anyway, I tried an upgrade back in 2021 to an AMD processor, Ryzen and NVME Samsung PRO SSD, some expensive sh*t. It was a huge dissapointment though: not only I didn’t notice the slightest improve in normal use, but the amount of heat this build generated on idle, was ridiculous, even though the temps were completely safe and normal even under load (I have an NH-D15 doing its job properly). The rig was like a stove, I had to turn on the air coditioning in my room. So I returned everything and went back to my old rig that generates reasonables amounts of heat, mostly under load.

I want to try for an upgrade one more time. Some people told me back then that new processors will inevitably run hotter than old-gen processors like mine (which makes sense) and that the “coolest” option for an upgrade, was the best availabe i3. It’s that right?? What do you guys think??

Thanks.

  • Wrong-Historian@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Idle usage of all of them (even the 14900k) is really really low, like below 5 Watt. And of any of the CPU’s (even 14900K), you can just set the TDP (PL1 & PL2) to whatever you want. Obviously it’s slower at lower TDP. A non-K cpu is just equal to a K cpu but it has different (lower) default settings for the TDP. You are fully in control of how hot and fast the CPU is (under load).

    For gaming, an AMD CPU usually generates higher FPS for the same TDP. Something like a 7800x3d is pretty efficient.

  • NotsoSmokeytheBear@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    I had a 12600k for a week and it was ice cold.

    Using a 14900k now. Oced to 5.8 all core it gets really hot and voltage hungry. At stock 60/57 I could lower volts such a great deal that it too is running much cooler than my 13900k.

    From 5.8 all core to 5.7 my mobo prediction was a difference of 0.05v core but I dropped it 0.12 and so far so good. Runs quite cool. Can be made cooler with power limits.