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Memory: Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro 32GB DDR4-3200 Intel motherboard: Asus ROG Maximus XIII HeroĪMD motherboard: Gigabyte X570 Aorus Master I'm not saying that jamming a six-core CPU into your rig is necessarily future-proofing, yet since Intel allowed Hyper-Threading throughout the range even its budget chips have enough processing grunt inside them to not only deliver excellent gaming frame rates, but also offer a modicum of compute power too. What the i5 11400/F chips are about is budget gaming prowess with a decent enough thread-count to ensure you're not left out further down the line. That blows the old Core i5 10400F out of the water in multi-threaded performance and means it's not far off either the 11600K or the 5600X.īut if serious multi-core rendering performance is a big thing for you then chances are that you'll be up for spending more on something with a bit more grunt.
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Letting our Asus test board take care of the power limits, however, means a constant 4.2GHz under full load. If you stick to the Intel recommended limits that will only last a few seconds, but most motherboards give you the option to let the silicon run at its limits. It's cheaper still, has the same six-core, 12-thread design-thanks to Intel finally lifting the artificial Hyper-Threading embargo-and can still hit a healthy 4.2GHz all-core Turbo clock speed. The Core i5 11400F just takes it that little bit further. Take the power shackles off in your BIOS, forgetting the dire situation we've put the planet in, and you can squeeze even more performance out of the chip.Įven if it was the same price as the six-core Ryzen the Core i5 11600K would still look good.
The Core i5 11600K is a great little chip, far cheaper and at least as effective a gaming chip as the popular Ryzen 5 5600X. Lower down the stack, however, it's a different matter. Though up top, considering what you're missing out on compared with either the Core i9 10900K or Ryzen 9 5900X, the boon of higher gaming performance doesn't make up for genuine lack in multithreaded grunt. This backport resulted in a bigger slice of silicon and meant it couldn't fit the previous generation's ten-core maximum into the top Rocket Lake chip, and if nothing else that made it feel like tangibly worse value.īut what Cypress Cove does deliver is higher IPC, and that has led to higher gaming performance across the board compared with previous Intel desktop chips. It offers fewer cores than its erstwhile Core i9 compatriot and features the bastardised Cypress Cove core architecture that pulled the 10nm Sunny Cove core back into the arms of 14nm manufacturing. The top-end Core i9 11900K is a chip that only its parents could love. As a CPU generation itself, however, Rocket Lake has felt kind of lacklustre.
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