Intel Core i5-9600K

[Vario]

Soldered lid but its no cooler than my factory TIM 8600K at 5 GHz and requires more volts to do 5GHz. Maybe .... Intel knew what it was doing when it chose to run with thermal paste for so long. Only now, there is no option of delid for buyers of 9th gen. Imagine if 9900K could easily be delidded, that 5 GHz all 8 core would be manageable on air.

Also that CPU-Z bench/stress test is a joke and will not guarantee stability at all except to do a validation. You would be better off just playing a demanding game that you would typically play anyway and see if it crashes.

 

[holyprof]

Clearly Vayra86 knows more about overclocking than both of us (me and Hnykill22). So if I were you, I'd take his advice to lower that voltage to 1.3, maybe 1.32V. Running a CPU at much higher than spec voltages might work for some time, but it will die a premature death due to electromigration.

Just because 5GHz looks like nice round number for us humans using the decimal system, you should not take it as a goal for your overclocking. You will not feel the difference between 4.9 and 5.0 GHz in a blind test. Many years ago i overclocked the venerable Core2Quad 6600 from 2.4 to 3.0GHz - guess what, games that were smooth stayed smooth, and games that were choppy stayed choppy even when on lowest image quality settings. Only difference i felt was reduced video encoding times. Then I tried 3.2GHz - OCCT crashed in 6 seconds.

 

[John Naylor]

I always find the price / performance argument as misleading. The CPU does not exist on its own and the prce argument that the Intel CPU needs a cooler seems to acknowledge this ... OK but if I have a CPU and Cooler on my desk, what can i do with it ? With a $165 AMD 2600 and a 9600k $95 more... say $140 w/ best air cooler on market, it takes a $1600 box to a $1740 box. That's not 47% more, it's 8.75% more.