12600KF, What a nice surprise.

[DAPUNISHER]

I was expecting to need to undervolt pronto. I've read so many complaints about power and heat with Alder. Of course, most were referencing the higher core counts. But not always. Just because you can make the 12600 draw over 200W, should not be a knock against it. I will probably do the undervolt later today, just to see if it will boost even higher, but the exercise is completely unnecessary.

12600KF, Gigabyte Z790 S WIFI, and 4x8GB Crucial Ballistix Elite CL18 4000. Did not do anything but make certain XMP was on in the UEFI, rebar was already on, latest bios. Using an Iota A62 I picked up for $33 on Amazon. Stock fans are garbage. Swapped for Thermalright that are cheap but quiet. Playing Spider-man Miles Morales for hours, it never exceeded 90W or hit 60c in a 21c living room, bare bones on a mobo box. No trouble hitting the 4.9GHz single core boost in the 3DMark suite.

Not going to bother with overclocking. I will never notice it while gaming, and I don't care abut benchmark scores. If I can get a little more while using a little less power? Then hell yeah.

Paired it with my B580, and under extended gaming load the setup is just as quiet as my 5600X3D with a XFX 6800. My 8 core AM4&5 systems get a little louder under the same conditions. I have a negative CO on all of them. But the big difference is they have a 7900XTX and 9070XT working hard.

Parden the blurry pic. The battery for my Pixel 6 is not here yet. Using a crappy Moto G on auto mode did not go well.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Bruh, you should set up a Tuber channel and just bench your weird builds as a retirement hobby.

There is someone out there wondering how this build performs, I guarantee it.

 

[LazyGamer]

Just because you can make the 12600 draw over 200W

You only got 200W out of it? I get 300W out of the 12600K I have easily, lol!

But it's totally not worth it, I feel that at that point you're not doing anything more than turning it into an even more efficient room heater.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

You only got 200W out of it?

No sir. I have not messed with power limits, still using OOB settings with latest bios. I literally wrote "over 200W" and "you" Pay attention Joking of course.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

Bruh, you should set up a Tuber channel and just bench your weird builds as a retirement hobby.

There is someone out there wondering how this build performs, I guarantee it.

I have considered it. But it involves some level of work, the worst 4 letter word of them all.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

I have considered it. But it involves some level of work, the worst 4 letter word of them all.

- The best time to learn how to do shiz is when your paycheck doesn't depend on it. I'd love to get into the whole recording/editing/voiceover scene, but never as a a job and god forbid as W O R K.

Then you can come here and post your own videos as evidence that TPU's relative performance charts suck

 

[DAPUNISHER]

- The best time to learn how to do shiz is when your paycheck doesn't depend on it. I'd love to get into the whole recording/editing/voiceover scene, but never as a a job and god forbid as W O R K.

LMK if you do it, I'll be your first subscriber and Patreon. Your kids are free labor, you know?

Then you can come here and post your own videos as evidence that TPU's relative performance charts suck

Superfluous. I have already provided so much evidence that we have reached the point of