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Intel Core I9 12900k, good?
Found a deal with the above CPU, a gigabyte z690 MB and 32 gigs of ram ddr5, basically the price of the CPU. Good deal? $400
My PC is 11 years old, and ready for an upgrade.
Update: went ahead and got it! Still need to round out the remaining components...
Thinking a Corsair Gold 850W power supply, a 4070 GPU, an aio cooler and I like the Lian Li PC 011 Dynamic case. Always up for any component suggestions as well!
Should last you for quite sometime. Just make sure the MB support Ddr5 Otherwise wont boot
It is bundled and the MB is ddr5 compaitable.
great price, sounds like a Microcenter deal.
It is, just got the email from them this morning.
I've been looking to build new, and priced out an I5 13600kf, z790 and 32 gb ddr5 but it is $250 more than the i9 bundle. Figure the savings would be used for an all in one cooler which I planned to purchase anyway.
Yup, bundles are here.
The 12900K bundle is easily the best value of the bunch. The 13900K bundle for $800 seems like a ripoff in comparison.
I paid the equivalent of $475 USD for my 12900K + mobo, and it didn't come with memory. But I was able to reuse my old memory.
$400 for the CPU+mobo+memory is a hot deal. Go for it.
To compare, a new 13700K which is about 5-10% faster is $410.
Hi,
It's very good but pretty much impossible to cool, that's the part that sucks.
It's a really good price overall though. You would need a beefy cooler and good PSU / GPU / NVME for storage and it should make for a good pc.
It's very hard to cool at turbo clocks with power limits removed. You can always set it to 12900 non-K power limits in BIOS and it'll work with a good tower cooler.
Just read some reviews and they did say it runs hot. Would an all in one cooler suffice?
Excellent deal. The 12900k is still an insanely powerful CPU so can't beat that deal. The 13600k/13700k which are probably more similar to the 12900k costs like $300 and $400 for just the CPU
Just a side note the 12900k runs extremely hot and is near impossible to cool. So you'll definitely want a beefy air cooler or preferably a 360mm AIO.