mrblond

GTXJackBauer

mrblond

castrator86
Gotta agree, just wait the extra month for the Black Friday deals on a 9700 or 9900 because these new releases should force prices down on top of the sales.

That is the plan for now, id love a i9 9900kx, whichever i decide to get. My worry at the moment is proper cooling. I have a corsair H150i which I am not sure will cool a 9900 properly to get it to 5ghz, if I need a bigger cooler, i need a new case.. then I am looking at pretty much a new build.

If a 360mm AIO can't cool any CPU properly, either there's something wrong with the cooler (Fans/pump too low?), ambient temps, case air flow, TIM, bad seat, etc.

its not a 360, its a 280

A H150i as you stated is a 360mm AIO. 
 
Regardless, a 280mm should be fine as well.

GTXJackBauer

mrblond

GTXJackBauer

mrblond

castrator86
Gotta agree, just wait the extra month for the Black Friday deals on a 9700 or 9900 because these new releases should force prices down on top of the sales.

That is the plan for now, id love a i9 9900kx, whichever i decide to get. My worry at the moment is proper cooling. I have a corsair H150i which I am not sure will cool a 9900 properly to get it to 5ghz, if I need a bigger cooler, i need a new case.. then I am looking at pretty much a new build.

If a 360mm AIO can't cool any CPU properly, either there's something wrong with the cooler (Fans/pump too low?), ambient temps, case air flow, TIM, bad seat, etc.

its not a 360, its a 280

A H150i as you stated is a 360mm AIO. 
 
Regardless, a 280mm should be fine as well.

my mistake, its a 115 not a 150

mrblond

GTXJackBauer
 
 
A H150i as you stated is a 360mm AIO. 
 
Regardless, a 280mm should be fine as well.

my mistake, its a 115 not a 150

Yeah a 280 is nearly the same surface area as a 360 due to being much wider.  A 240 would be where there's a significant step down.

Just checked the price on Amazon for the 9900ks.. $598.00. thats one heck of a SE tax they got going.

mrblond
Just checked the price on Amazon for the 9900ks.. $598.00. thats one heck of a SE tax they got going.

yes, & not that big of a performance jump ... unless your chasing world record runs
 
the 360 Has 10.2 % increase in area over the 280 radiator

I was considering the KS but at that price i think i'll either look at something else, or wait for the new 10900 when its released. I mean if I am going to need to get a new mobo, i may as well get the new chipset as well.

If you have a Microcenter around, you can get a i7 9800X for $380 before tax. They did good on that processor, the one I had for a short while ran very cool since they actually soldered the IHS on for those ones.
 
The i9 9900KS is no different than a factory overclocked video card, you pay to not have to play the silicon lottery and run overclocking software. The Z series chipset on Intel isn't for enthusiasts... If's for the gamer that wants to turn on their PC, play games, and browse the internet with as little upkeep as possible.

I saw the 9900KS described once as the "9900 Keep Spending" model lol

Definitely X299 with one of the new 10xxx chips.

I was looking at those 10xxx chips and unless they take a good OC i dont think they would be much better then the 9900k, unless the x299 is much better then the Z390 boards.
  I still have not really got a good answer on the whole hyperthreading thing. Seems its worse in some games, but I should get it over the 9700k due to it being more futureproof..
 
 I am leaning to just licking up a 9900k and hoping it OCs well. Now to deciding on a good board to pare it with.