Intel 12th Gen CPU Build: Gaming Benchmarks and CPU Performance

As we conclude the build portion of today's video, we have some exciting benchmarks to share with you. Our Intel 12th Gen CPU build has been put through its paces, and the results are impressive. We've also got a full cables and wiring guide available on our channel, so be sure to check that out.

The epic glam montage is about to kick in, and we're just getting started. But first, let's take a look at how our Intel 12th Gen CPU performed in various gaming benchmarks.

GTA V Benchmark

We started with GTA V, as it's one of the games that comes with built-in benchmarking mode, making it a great test for our system. We were able to pull in 152 frames per second on average at 4K very high settings. This was a significant increase over our comparative test with an AMD Ryzen 9 CPU, and we're really impressed with the performance of the Intel 12th Gen CPU.

Watch Dogs: Legion Benchmark

Next up was Watch Dogs: Legion, another game that's known for its demanding system requirements. We were able to achieve 71 frames per second on average at 4K ultra settings, with strong 90 and 99th percentile results. This was a notable increase over our previous test, and it shows just how capable the Intel 12th Gen CPU is.

Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War Benchmark

We also tested out Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War at 4K ultra settings, with ray tracing and DLSS enabled. The results were impressive, with 95 frames per second on average. We even managed to beat our previous test by a few frames per second, demonstrating the CPU's ability to handle demanding workloads.

Apex Legends Benchmark

Next up was Apex Legends, another game that requires a strong system to run smoothly. We achieved 135 frames per second at 4K high settings, which is considered esports-level performance. This shows just how well our Intel 12th Gen CPU can handle fast-paced games like Apex Legends.

Valorant Benchmark

We also tested out Valorant, a game known for its demanding system requirements. We were able to pull in just shy of 350 frames per second on average at 4K medium settings with ray tracing disabled, and even higher results when enabled. This shows just how well our CPU can handle the game's demanding physics engine.

Cyberpunk Benchmark

Finally, we tested out Cyberpunk 2077, a game that requires a strong system to run smoothly. We achieved 69 frames per second on average at 4K medium settings with ray tracing disabled, and even lower results when enabled. However, we were still able to achieve over 60 frames per second at 4K high settings, which is impressive for this demanding game.

Fortnite Benchmark

We also tested out Fortnite at a couple of different settings. At 1080p high settings, we achieved 236 frames per second, with strong 90 and 99th percentile results. And at 1080p competitive settings, with everything tuned down to low but the render distance set to far for the best possible frame rates and viewing distance, we managed an incredible 385 frames per second. This is possibly the highest frame rate we've ever seen in Fortnite.

Warzone Benchmark

Finally, we tested out Call of Duty: Warzone at 4K very high settings. We achieved 117 frames per second on average, which shows just how well our Intel 12th Gen CPU can handle the game's demanding physics engine and graphics rendering.

Conclusion

As you can see from these benchmarks, the Intel 12th Gen CPU is a beast of a processor that can handle even the most demanding workloads. The build as a whole has performed impressively, and we're really happy with the results. If you enjoyed this video, be sure to give it a big old thumbs up and subscribe for more content like this. We'll see you in the next one!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enis the brand new intel 12th gen cpus have landed and we've got hands-on to see whether these are worth it for your next build could intel finally be back on top spoiler alert i think they just might be to celebrate we're going to build an awesome system around the z690 chipset with a 3080ti the brand new i-912 900k and see just how crazy we can get as if that wasn't enough this box here contains some ram brand new ddr5 and the box is huge we've got gen 4 storage we've got an insane case and a cpu caller with a screen i am so so excited for this build i hope you guys are as well make sure to get subscribed before we dive into it but i mean let's just do this i'm going to start this video off a bit differently by looking at the cpu and our ram and getting those unboxed first i'll then be talking you through all of the other components as we put this system together before booting it up later to see just how well our 12 900k and by extension the new i5 chip from intel perform now in tower very kind and sent us some processors in advance of the official launch so we could take a look and evaluate performance figures for you guys they send us it in this really nice intel unboxing kit so we open it up you can see here it says built for the next generation of gaming i sure hope so and then we get this lovely little older lake placard here with kind of the internals of a cpu alongside this lovely intel acrylic stand that i believe clipped together a little something like that that's quite a nice little ornament and i'm sure that will have a place in the set of our videos for a long time to come underneath here we've got some cpus we've got the brand new core i9 12 900k and the i512 600k these chips are a complete generational shift away from what we saw with 11th gen which is essentially a slightly faster 10th gen with less cores and better clock speeds one of the big advantages as well of the new 12th gen chips is that they support ddr5 memory this is of course the biggest change that we've seen to ram standards in what like six years and to celebrate corsair has sent us this i'm so excited to see what's in this it's a lovely white box that's filthy already so sorry corsair but in here oh my goodness we've got some dominator platinum rgb ddr5 memory this is the special ddr5 edition so that's quite cool and then under here i have no idea what this is but i've heard from the guys in the office who've already had a bit of a play that it's very cool so we take this off and we've got what looks to be like a big placard of some description it's brown and blue and it says on the back of it four out of fifty okay this is a bit bonkers i believe upon further investigation oh my god it's actually see through see my hand this is all acrylic and it's blue it's actually a chopping board for cutting edge performance corsair you are hilarious and you are just marketing geniuses at this point this is awesome it's so heavy as well like really really heavy and i think that's actually a random inside the acrylic like what on earth that is so so sick at christmas last year corsair sent me like a baking kit so i think they're secretly on a mission to kit out my entire kitchen i want to buy a house with some corsair branded kitchenware that's enough of that though let's actually go ahead and explore ddr5 explore our cpus and i think the best way to do that is by installing it all into the motherboard choice for this build another first this right here is the gigabyte aurus z690 master board now this is brand new of course exclusively for these 12th gen cpus it's got support for pcie 5 and supports ddr5 memory it might just be one of the most insane motherboards i've ever seen for a few reasons our ga 1700 support is expected for the latest 12th gen processors we've got this shielding on our ram dim slots which support ddr5 memory the world's tallest m.2 heatsink i mean what is that as mental i'm hoping that won't interfere with thick gpu backplates it shouldn't do we've then got two full length pcie slots down the bottom with this really nice sort of heatsink over our chipset bit of an unusual design as we discussed in our recent unboxing video you can see at the rear of the board we've got wi-fi six here i believe it is we've then got all of our usb 3.2 ports so these are all our 10 gig ports with a pair of usbcs and we've also got 10 gigabit ethernet i love it when uh this is on a motherboard it's so great for those enthusiasts out there for people like us who edit video we want to connect up to a 10 gig server picking up one of these on its own will cost you like a few hundred dollars so as much as this board is not cheap by any means latest pricing and availability can be found at the affiliate links in the description below bit of a mouthful that one uh it will actually provide a good bit of value if it gives you the features that you're looking for anyway in terms of installing the cpu this is actually a slightly different process with the new intel chips than what we've seen before you might also notice that the socket is sizeably larger than on the last gen cpus so as well as intel shrinking that die down they've made the socket bigger more processor for your money and money is actually an interesting point these chips have got some really really competitive retail price in which is really nice to see from intel and absolutely does show the competition that amd have provided in recent years the socket actually folds out in a kind of cool mechanism that's more like thread repair than what we're used to within town but that's fine by me we can then go ahead and drop the chip in a bit more nervous than usual it smells like quite a big moment before actually popping the cover down the black socket cover will also pop off at this point and then securing it down with our retention arm apply a bit of pressure but no force nothing like that and the cpu is installed with that we can go ahead and install our ram or our memory today this right here is a kit of corsair's dominator platinum ddr5 i've been a big fan of the dominator range for many years with capellix rgbs that are super super bright and all in all a really nice design that actually feels quite heavy these are going to be perfect today if you're looking to make a more value-oriented build around the 12th gen processors we will have content for that but this is intended to be a bit more balls to the walls today we're really pushing the boat out and going as far as we can go in terms of getting some really great components not too much has changed on the ramdim front you just need to pull back the second and fourth clips if you're using two dimms or all four clips if you're installing four it's in a very simple case of lining the notch on the memory up it's much further over to the right i think with ddr5 before clipping it into place nice and easily repeat for as many dims as you've got in our case just the two but they are 16 gigs we've got 32 gigs of memory which should be a nice amount for our ryzen for our intel core i know i'm so used to building ryzen pcs because intel just haven't been competitive so it feels good to finally be able to say that and now there is one more thing we need to actually install before i go ahead and slide the motherboard out of the way and that's our m.2 storage i think to do this we need to take off these four screws here and remove the whole sort of heatsink assembly so let's do that first what on earth am i seeing right now is that really like four gen four nvme slots all in like that is ridiculous that is absolutely ridiculous the bottom two are slightly shorter the top two are like full length but even then i don't even need all that length when it comes to m.2s and you get thermal pads on here as well i think we're gonna use the top slot it's a good general rule of thumb and for the storage i've gone ahead and picked up what is widely regarded as the best gen 4 nvme drive on the market this is the seagate fire cuda 530 with read and write speeds both in the region of 7 gigabytes a second this thing is kind of insane you can get it with a heatsink or without a heatsink i don't want to go for the heatsink version today because then we wouldn't be able to pop this thing back on that's the only disadvantage i can see is if you did pick up a drive with a heatsink you then have to reveal and expose all of this which is obviously not something that i think would look particularly good the 530 is an awesome drive though it will help to make sure we don't encounter any storage bottlenecks something that is becoming increasingly more common when you pair up a 3080ti with a cpu as powerful as this one make sure you actually remove the protective film from the heatsink on your thermal pad that is a little bit difficult so you might need to just get a screwdriver in there just dislodge the blue thumb a bit before peeling it up we're then able to really nice and easily slide our fire cuda drive into place 45 degree angle push it down onto your thermal pad and then use one of these a teeny tiny little screw and a teeny tiny little screwdriver to actually fasten our drive into place don't go ahead and drop it like i just did this stage of the process can be super super fiddly to take it nice and slowly be nice and careful then remember of course to remove the thermal pad on the bottom of the m.2 cover as well and then once you've done that we can fasten this just checking i've got the right one i did indeed fasten this back down nice and easily at four screws again to secure it into place and that's pretty much it one big advantage here is that you can access all of your m.2 drives in one foul swoop although i do imagine you'd need to take out the graphics card so there's pros and cons to the approach but i think the board looks absolutely awesome either way once our motherboard then is nicely in the bag and complete we can move on to the case now for this build i didn't really know what case to go for there's some excited options on the market at the moment but i think the corsair 5000 series might just be the most refined i've actually opted to go for the airflow version of the case which doesn't normally come with included rgb fans but because our caller has some rgb fans included we can get the best of both worlds airflow and rgb as usual i think we want to strip down all of the side panels on the case first before going ahead and attempting to screw the motherboard in so that's the glass tempered side panel on the left and the right hand side and then our mesh grilles on the top and the front of the case respectively once you've removed all of the side panels it's then a case of screwing the motherboard in flip it around to the rear and locate each of the standoff holes so we've got three at the top three across the middle and three along the bottom which we'll try and circle on your screen now these need to align with the case where we already have three at the top three across the middle and three along the bottom really really nice a bit of look from us there to have all of those in exactly the right place from the outset this board also has a built-in rear i o shield meaning all we need to do is basically slide our motherboard into place a little something like this line up each of the holes and then in theory the raised center standoff will hold the motherboard in place just for now remember we do need to screw in the motherboard to secure it down and make sure it doesn't go anywhere and then with that the motherboard is pretty much in next up then is the cooler now this is looking ridiculous already the dark gray graphite the black of the case and the massive accents on the motherboard really work well together and i think things are about to get even better with corsair's h150i elite lcd this is pretty similar i think to their elite capellix caller that we really like here on the channel but it has an lcd screen on it as if that wasn't good enough corsair are actually selling the screen separately and it fits it's backwards compatible on a load of their coolers they've released over the last year or so i love that corsair have done this it's a really really pro consumer move yes it makes them more money because people go out and buy screens for their callers but it makes them a lot less money than people having to replace the coolers entirely so i've got to give a lot of credit to corsair on that one you've got these really nice three 120 millimeter included corsair fans they look pretty good you've then also got the water block itself with up top here our screen that looks to also have an rgb ring and a nice recess screens are by no means new on callers nzxt have been doing it for quite a while at this point and many manufacturers like asus and even msi aren't far behind but core says implementation is normally pretty good that iq software suite is fantastic so i'm super interested to see just how well this stacks up you also get this rgb sort of controller hub i want to see if this uh mini commander design is the same as what we've got on some of their other coolers and the good news is it looks to be so the h150i elite capelix that uses the same interface as this which i like i'm glad that course i haven't just changed it for the sake of changing it you also get this nice sleeving as well coming out of the call-out which addresses some of the problems i had before where you would see cable fraying and stuff like that and the sleeve in it sort of embraces the cables rather than trying to hide them and make them super small you've then of course got your lovely 360 ml radiator with support for three 120mm fans as far as installation goes let's make our life a bit easy let's install the radiator at the front of the case with the fans first and worry about our water block in a second because of course the mounting process changed a little bit with lga 1700 and then once that's done we're going to take this included back plate and just pop this through the four holes around the cpu socket itself you then want to pick up the bag of intel 1700 male-to-male screws we're going to screw these around each corner of our cpu itself before popping on the water block and fastening it down with some thumb screws this all sounds a lot more complicated than it actually is but hopefully seeing it visually will give you guys a good idea of the exact steps involved next up then on the component hit list today is the graphics card now we need something that's worthy of matching up with our powerful i9 12 900k and what better option than the rtx 3080 ti well technically the 3090 but that gpu is even more out of stock than these cards and frankly way too expensive for what it actually is you don't need the specs of the 3090 and this was actually designed to be a more reasonable alternative to that gpu i've gone for a gigabyte card to keep in with our theme today a big shout out to gigabyte for lending out the motherboard and the graphics card for this system getting hold of gpus as you guys know is super difficult so we really really appreciate being able to continue making this content if you'd like to learn more about the current gpu shortage and crisis why it exists and when it might possibly end check out a recent video we made in the card section now as far as 4k gaming goes this is going to crush the latest triple-a titles at high and ultra settings 60 to 100 plus frames per second as always though we'll be jumping into detailed gaming benchmarks and of course benchmarks of our lovely 12 900k very shortly so hold tight for that one now we could be boring in today's video and we could just install the gpu in the normal way but something tells me that that's not really what you guys want to see so i've gone ahead and picked up this this is the corsair premium 16x pcie riser so this is going to install into the top pcie slot on the motherboard and basically just act as like a really really big extension cord but for your graphics card to slide that in that will click into place nicely and then we can actually install the gpu in the vertical gpu mount we're going to remove the rear two screws on our pcie covers slide it into the riser and just try and talk all this extra slack behind the gpu out of the way thankfully it's quite mouldable so if you bend it in a certain way it will stay which is really really nice and it should give us a good pcie gen 3 bandwidth beware if you want pci gen 4 you will need to pick up a slightly different riser cable which can be difficult when it comes to limited clearance underneath the pci slot just watch out it can be a little bit tricky finally then all that's left to do is give our system power now ideally i would have gone for like an 850 watt unit from corsair to really tie in with a full iq system but the power supply doesn't really light up that much and i've only got a white one and i thought that would probably ruin the colour scheme and aesthetic of today's system that's where this deep core pm850d comes in a no-nonsense 80 plus gold power supply with 850 watts of capacity that's the perfect amount of wattage for something like an rtx 3080 ti and will work super well for the system today this might seem like a peculiar choice considering it doesn't actually have modular cables but considering we need most of these power cables anyway and they're all black it's going to be fine for me the 80 plus gold certification and 850 watt output is the most important part we can screw this in before giving our gpu motherboard and cpu power this won't be a full cables and wiring guide but we have got one of those on the channel which you can check out in the card section now and with that that just about wraps it up for the build portion of today's video but don't go anywhere because we've got some gaming benchmarks and cpu benchmarks coming up in just a second after the epic glam montage that you guys have come to know and love i'll see you in a sec but first roll that montage oh god i really hope no one knows i've had my haircut so we've established that this pc build looks pretty sick but just how well does it perform that's the all-important question when it comes to intel 12th gen well we've actually tested over 15 of the latest and most popular aaa titles and you can find a summary of all of our results on your screen now we've also published a dedicated review with more cpu specific benchmarks but let's take a look at right now at the gaming numbers that we were able to achieve gta 5 was actually the first test on our list we like to test this game out given its inbuilt benchmarking mode and real sense of repeatability you guys can copy our 4k very high settings configuration and see what results you're able to achieve at home here we managed to pull in 152 frames per second on average this was actually a pretty considerable increase over our comparative test in with a ryzen 9 cpu with the 12 900k really really impressing us here we also tested out watchdogs legion at 4k ultra settings here we achieved 71 frames per second on the 3080ti pushing it to the absolute max with strong 90 and 99th percentile results we also tested the game out at 1080p for gamers looking to stress the cpu a bit more of course a lower resolution puts more demand on the processor and less on the graphics card i'm happy to report that the frame rate nearly doubled jumping us up to 135 fps on average at 1080p ultra settings but what about call of duty's black ops cold war that's the next title on the list today and once again provides another set of really impressive results 4k ultra settings yielded 95 frames per second on average with strong 90 and 99 percentile results which showed some really consistent frame rates as if this wasn't enough we also tested it with ray tracing and dlss enabled at 4k and somehow got higher results than with ray tracing and dlss disabled in fact we managed to pull in 112 frames per second once again 90 and 99 percentiles were strong and gave us some really really good numbers moving on to apex legends next then at 4k high settings we got 135 frames per second so sort of esports level frame rates at 4k high not bad at all showing that at 1080p you could easily surpass the 200 mark what about something like valorent though the next game on the list today and most certainly the easiest of the titles but a game that puts as much strain as possible onto the cpu here we managed to get just shy of 350 frames per second on average with a visual experience that looked pretty stunning moving on to cyberpunk next up then here we tested out first with ray tracing disabled and then with ray tracing enabled with rtx off we got 69 frames per second on average with 65 and 61. this was 4k medium settings while the same setting with ray tracing enabled gave us 63 frames per second cyberpunk the most difficult game to run that i think we've ever tested here on the channel but the fact that we can destroy it over 60 frames 4k high settings it really speaks volumes next up then is fortnite we tested this at a couple of different settings as well 1080p first up high settings gave us 236 frames per second 90 99 percentiles were strong as you'd expect while 1080p competitive settings with everything tuned down to low but the render distance set to far for the best possible frame rates and viewing distance gave us 385 fps quite possibly the highest frame rates we've ever seen at fortnight 1080p competitive settings finally then the last game on the list today is a bit of call of duty's warzone at 4k very high we got 117 frames per second and although this game might have fallen out of flavour just a little bit to apex and fortnite as of late we still got some great results and we're really impressed with not only the 12 900k but the build as a whole if you enjoyed this video make sure to give it a big old light rating get subscribed if you'd like to see more from us thanks for tuning in though and as always we'll see you in the next oneis the brand new intel 12th gen cpus have landed and we've got hands-on to see whether these are worth it for your next build could intel finally be back on top spoiler alert i think they just might be to celebrate we're going to build an awesome system around the z690 chipset with a 3080ti the brand new i-912 900k and see just how crazy we can get as if that wasn't enough this box here contains some ram brand new ddr5 and the box is huge we've got gen 4 storage we've got an insane case and a cpu caller with a screen i am so so excited for this build i hope you guys are as well make sure to get subscribed before we dive into it but i mean let's just do this i'm going to start this video off a bit differently by looking at the cpu and our ram and getting those unboxed first i'll then be talking you through all of the other components as we put this system together before booting it up later to see just how well our 12 900k and by extension the new i5 chip from intel perform now in tower very kind and sent us some processors in advance of the official launch so we could take a look and evaluate performance figures for you guys they send us it in this really nice intel unboxing kit so we open it up you can see here it says built for the next generation of gaming i sure hope so and then we get this lovely little older lake placard here with kind of the internals of a cpu alongside this lovely intel acrylic stand that i believe clipped together a little something like that that's quite a nice little ornament and i'm sure that will have a place in the set of our videos for a long time to come underneath here we've got some cpus we've got the brand new core i9 12 900k and the i512 600k these chips are a complete generational shift away from what we saw with 11th gen which is essentially a slightly faster 10th gen with less cores and better clock speeds one of the big advantages as well of the new 12th gen chips is that they support ddr5 memory this is of course the biggest change that we've seen to ram standards in what like six years and to celebrate corsair has sent us this i'm so excited to see what's in this it's a lovely white box that's filthy already so sorry corsair but in here oh my goodness we've got some dominator platinum rgb ddr5 memory this is the special ddr5 edition so that's quite cool and then under here i have no idea what this is but i've heard from the guys in the office who've already had a bit of a play that it's very cool so we take this off and we've got what looks to be like a big placard of some description it's brown and blue and it says on the back of it four out of fifty okay this is a bit bonkers i believe upon further investigation oh my god it's actually see through see my hand this is all acrylic and it's blue it's actually a chopping board for cutting edge performance corsair you are hilarious and you are just marketing geniuses at this point this is awesome it's so heavy as well like really really heavy and i think that's actually a random inside the acrylic like what on earth that is so so sick at christmas last year corsair sent me like a baking kit so i think they're secretly on a mission to kit out my entire kitchen i want to buy a house with some corsair branded kitchenware that's enough of that though let's actually go ahead and explore ddr5 explore our cpus and i think the best way to do that is by installing it all into the motherboard choice for this build another first this right here is the gigabyte aurus z690 master board now this is brand new of course exclusively for these 12th gen cpus it's got support for pcie 5 and supports ddr5 memory it might just be one of the most insane motherboards i've ever seen for a few reasons our ga 1700 support is expected for the latest 12th gen processors we've got this shielding on our ram dim slots which support ddr5 memory the world's tallest m.2 heatsink i mean what is that as mental i'm hoping that won't interfere with thick gpu backplates it shouldn't do we've then got two full length pcie slots down the bottom with this really nice sort of heatsink over our chipset bit of an unusual design as we discussed in our recent unboxing video you can see at the rear of the board we've got wi-fi six here i believe it is we've then got all of our usb 3.2 ports so these are all our 10 gig ports with a pair of usbcs and we've also got 10 gigabit ethernet i love it when uh this is on a motherboard it's so great for those enthusiasts out there for people like us who edit video we want to connect up to a 10 gig server picking up one of these on its own will cost you like a few hundred dollars so as much as this board is not cheap by any means latest pricing and availability can be found at the affiliate links in the description below bit of a mouthful that one uh it will actually provide a good bit of value if it gives you the features that you're looking for anyway in terms of installing the cpu this is actually a slightly different process with the new intel chips than what we've seen before you might also notice that the socket is sizeably larger than on the last gen cpus so as well as intel shrinking that die down they've made the socket bigger more processor for your money and money is actually an interesting point these chips have got some really really competitive retail price in which is really nice to see from intel and absolutely does show the competition that amd have provided in recent years the socket actually folds out in a kind of cool mechanism that's more like thread repair than what we're used to within town but that's fine by me we can then go ahead and drop the chip in a bit more nervous than usual it smells like quite a big moment before actually popping the cover down the black socket cover will also pop off at this point and then securing it down with our retention arm apply a bit of pressure but no force nothing like that and the cpu is installed with that we can go ahead and install our ram or our memory today this right here is a kit of corsair's dominator platinum ddr5 i've been a big fan of the dominator range for many years with capellix rgbs that are super super bright and all in all a really nice design that actually feels quite heavy these are going to be perfect today if you're looking to make a more value-oriented build around the 12th gen processors we will have content for that but this is intended to be a bit more balls to the walls today we're really pushing the boat out and going as far as we can go in terms of getting some really great components not too much has changed on the ramdim front you just need to pull back the second and fourth clips if you're using two dimms or all four clips if you're installing four it's in a very simple case of lining the notch on the memory up it's much further over to the right i think with ddr5 before clipping it into place nice and easily repeat for as many dims as you've got in our case just the two but they are 16 gigs we've got 32 gigs of memory which should be a nice amount for our ryzen for our intel core i know i'm so used to building ryzen pcs because intel just haven't been competitive so it feels good to finally be able to say that and now there is one more thing we need to actually install before i go ahead and slide the motherboard out of the way and that's our m.2 storage i think to do this we need to take off these four screws here and remove the whole sort of heatsink assembly so let's do that first what on earth am i seeing right now is that really like four gen four nvme slots all in like that is ridiculous that is absolutely ridiculous the bottom two are slightly shorter the top two are like full length but even then i don't even need all that length when it comes to m.2s and you get thermal pads on here as well i think we're gonna use the top slot it's a good general rule of thumb and for the storage i've gone ahead and picked up what is widely regarded as the best gen 4 nvme drive on the market this is the seagate fire cuda 530 with read and write speeds both in the region of 7 gigabytes a second this thing is kind of insane you can get it with a heatsink or without a heatsink i don't want to go for the heatsink version today because then we wouldn't be able to pop this thing back on that's the only disadvantage i can see is if you did pick up a drive with a heatsink you then have to reveal and expose all of this which is obviously not something that i think would look particularly good the 530 is an awesome drive though it will help to make sure we don't encounter any storage bottlenecks something that is becoming increasingly more common when you pair up a 3080ti with a cpu as powerful as this one make sure you actually remove the protective film from the heatsink on your thermal pad that is a little bit difficult so you might need to just get a screwdriver in there just dislodge the blue thumb a bit before peeling it up we're then able to really nice and easily slide our fire cuda drive into place 45 degree angle push it down onto your thermal pad and then use one of these a teeny tiny little screw and a teeny tiny little screwdriver to actually fasten our drive into place don't go ahead and drop it like i just did this stage of the process can be super super fiddly to take it nice and slowly be nice and careful then remember of course to remove the thermal pad on the bottom of the m.2 cover as well and then once you've done that we can fasten this just checking i've got the right one i did indeed fasten this back down nice and easily at four screws again to secure it into place and that's pretty much it one big advantage here is that you can access all of your m.2 drives in one foul swoop although i do imagine you'd need to take out the graphics card so there's pros and cons to the approach but i think the board looks absolutely awesome either way once our motherboard then is nicely in the bag and complete we can move on to the case now for this build i didn't really know what case to go for there's some excited options on the market at the moment but i think the corsair 5000 series might just be the most refined i've actually opted to go for the airflow version of the case which doesn't normally come with included rgb fans but because our caller has some rgb fans included we can get the best of both worlds airflow and rgb as usual i think we want to strip down all of the side panels on the case first before going ahead and attempting to screw the motherboard in so that's the glass tempered side panel on the left and the right hand side and then our mesh grilles on the top and the front of the case respectively once you've removed all of the side panels it's then a case of screwing the motherboard in flip it around to the rear and locate each of the standoff holes so we've got three at the top three across the middle and three along the bottom which we'll try and circle on your screen now these need to align with the case where we already have three at the top three across the middle and three along the bottom really really nice a bit of look from us there to have all of those in exactly the right place from the outset this board also has a built-in rear i o shield meaning all we need to do is basically slide our motherboard into place a little something like this line up each of the holes and then in theory the raised center standoff will hold the motherboard in place just for now remember we do need to screw in the motherboard to secure it down and make sure it doesn't go anywhere and then with that the motherboard is pretty much in next up then is the cooler now this is looking ridiculous already the dark gray graphite the black of the case and the massive accents on the motherboard really work well together and i think things are about to get even better with corsair's h150i elite lcd this is pretty similar i think to their elite capellix caller that we really like here on the channel but it has an lcd screen on it as if that wasn't good enough corsair are actually selling the screen separately and it fits it's backwards compatible on a load of their coolers they've released over the last year or so i love that corsair have done this it's a really really pro consumer move yes it makes them more money because people go out and buy screens for their callers but it makes them a lot less money than people having to replace the coolers entirely so i've got to give a lot of credit to corsair on that one you've got these really nice three 120 millimeter included corsair fans they look pretty good you've then also got the water block itself with up top here our screen that looks to also have an rgb ring and a nice recess screens are by no means new on callers nzxt have been doing it for quite a while at this point and many manufacturers like asus and even msi aren't far behind but core says implementation is normally pretty good that iq software suite is fantastic so i'm super interested to see just how well this stacks up you also get this rgb sort of controller hub i want to see if this uh mini commander design is the same as what we've got on some of their other coolers and the good news is it looks to be so the h150i elite capelix that uses the same interface as this which i like i'm glad that course i haven't just changed it for the sake of changing it you also get this nice sleeving as well coming out of the call-out which addresses some of the problems i had before where you would see cable fraying and stuff like that and the sleeve in it sort of embraces the cables rather than trying to hide them and make them super small you've then of course got your lovely 360 ml radiator with support for three 120mm fans as far as installation goes let's make our life a bit easy let's install the radiator at the front of the case with the fans first and worry about our water block in a second because of course the mounting process changed a little bit with lga 1700 and then once that's done we're going to take this included back plate and just pop this through the four holes around the cpu socket itself you then want to pick up the bag of intel 1700 male-to-male screws we're going to screw these around each corner of our cpu itself before popping on the water block and fastening it down with some thumb screws this all sounds a lot more complicated than it actually is but hopefully seeing it visually will give you guys a good idea of the exact steps involved next up then on the component hit list today is the graphics card now we need something that's worthy of matching up with our powerful i9 12 900k and what better option than the rtx 3080 ti well technically the 3090 but that gpu is even more out of stock than these cards and frankly way too expensive for what it actually is you don't need the specs of the 3090 and this was actually designed to be a more reasonable alternative to that gpu i've gone for a gigabyte card to keep in with our theme today a big shout out to gigabyte for lending out the motherboard and the graphics card for this system getting hold of gpus as you guys know is super difficult so we really really appreciate being able to continue making this content if you'd like to learn more about the current gpu shortage and crisis why it exists and when it might possibly end check out a recent video we made in the card section now as far as 4k gaming goes this is going to crush the latest triple-a titles at high and ultra settings 60 to 100 plus frames per second as always though we'll be jumping into detailed gaming benchmarks and of course benchmarks of our lovely 12 900k very shortly so hold tight for that one now we could be boring in today's video and we could just install the gpu in the normal way but something tells me that that's not really what you guys want to see so i've gone ahead and picked up this this is the corsair premium 16x pcie riser so this is going to install into the top pcie slot on the motherboard and basically just act as like a really really big extension cord but for your graphics card to slide that in that will click into place nicely and then we can actually install the gpu in the vertical gpu mount we're going to remove the rear two screws on our pcie covers slide it into the riser and just try and talk all this extra slack behind the gpu out of the way thankfully it's quite mouldable so if you bend it in a certain way it will stay which is really really nice and it should give us a good pcie gen 3 bandwidth beware if you want pci gen 4 you will need to pick up a slightly different riser cable which can be difficult when it comes to limited clearance underneath the pci slot just watch out it can be a little bit tricky finally then all that's left to do is give our system power now ideally i would have gone for like an 850 watt unit from corsair to really tie in with a full iq system but the power supply doesn't really light up that much and i've only got a white one and i thought that would probably ruin the colour scheme and aesthetic of today's system that's where this deep core pm850d comes in a no-nonsense 80 plus gold power supply with 850 watts of capacity that's the perfect amount of wattage for something like an rtx 3080 ti and will work super well for the system today this might seem like a peculiar choice considering it doesn't actually have modular cables but considering we need most of these power cables anyway and they're all black it's going to be fine for me the 80 plus gold certification and 850 watt output is the most important part we can screw this in before giving our gpu motherboard and cpu power this won't be a full cables and wiring guide but we have got one of those on the channel which you can check out in the card section now and with that that just about wraps it up for the build portion of today's video but don't go anywhere because we've got some gaming benchmarks and cpu benchmarks coming up in just a second after the epic glam montage that you guys have come to know and love i'll see you in a sec but first roll that montage oh god i really hope no one knows i've had my haircut so we've established that this pc build looks pretty sick but just how well does it perform that's the all-important question when it comes to intel 12th gen well we've actually tested over 15 of the latest and most popular aaa titles and you can find a summary of all of our results on your screen now we've also published a dedicated review with more cpu specific benchmarks but let's take a look at right now at the gaming numbers that we were able to achieve gta 5 was actually the first test on our list we like to test this game out given its inbuilt benchmarking mode and real sense of repeatability you guys can copy our 4k very high settings configuration and see what results you're able to achieve at home here we managed to pull in 152 frames per second on average this was actually a pretty considerable increase over our comparative test in with a ryzen 9 cpu with the 12 900k really really impressing us here we also tested out watchdogs legion at 4k ultra settings here we achieved 71 frames per second on the 3080ti pushing it to the absolute max with strong 90 and 99th percentile results we also tested the game out at 1080p for gamers looking to stress the cpu a bit more of course a lower resolution puts more demand on the processor and less on the graphics card i'm happy to report that the frame rate nearly doubled jumping us up to 135 fps on average at 1080p ultra settings but what about call of duty's black ops cold war that's the next title on the list today and once again provides another set of really impressive results 4k ultra settings yielded 95 frames per second on average with strong 90 and 99 percentile results which showed some really consistent frame rates as if this wasn't enough we also tested it with ray tracing and dlss enabled at 4k and somehow got higher results than with ray tracing and dlss disabled in fact we managed to pull in 112 frames per second once again 90 and 99 percentiles were strong and gave us some really really good numbers moving on to apex legends next then at 4k high settings we got 135 frames per second so sort of esports level frame rates at 4k high not bad at all showing that at 1080p you could easily surpass the 200 mark what about something like valorent though the next game on the list today and most certainly the easiest of the titles but a game that puts as much strain as possible onto the cpu here we managed to get just shy of 350 frames per second on average with a visual experience that looked pretty stunning moving on to cyberpunk next up then here we tested out first with ray tracing disabled and then with ray tracing enabled with rtx off we got 69 frames per second on average with 65 and 61. this was 4k medium settings while the same setting with ray tracing enabled gave us 63 frames per second cyberpunk the most difficult game to run that i think we've ever tested here on the channel but the fact that we can destroy it over 60 frames 4k high settings it really speaks volumes next up then is fortnite we tested this at a couple of different settings as well 1080p first up high settings gave us 236 frames per second 90 99 percentiles were strong as you'd expect while 1080p competitive settings with everything tuned down to low but the render distance set to far for the best possible frame rates and viewing distance gave us 385 fps quite possibly the highest frame rates we've ever seen at fortnight 1080p competitive settings finally then the last game on the list today is a bit of call of duty's warzone at 4k very high we got 117 frames per second and although this game might have fallen out of flavour just a little bit to apex and fortnite as of late we still got some great results and we're really impressed with not only the 12 900k but the build as a whole if you enjoyed this video make sure to give it a big old light rating get subscribed if you'd like to see more from us thanks for tuning in though and as always we'll see you in the next oneis the brand new intel 12th gen cpus have landed and we've got hands-on to see whether these are worth it for your next build could intel finally be back on top spoiler alert i think they just might be to celebrate we're going to build an awesome system around the z690 chipset with a 3080ti the brand new i-912 900k and see just how crazy we can get as if that wasn't enough this box here contains some ram brand new ddr5 and the box is huge we've got gen 4 storage we've got an insane case and a cpu caller with a screen i am so so excited for this build i hope you guys are as well make sure to get subscribed before we dive into it but i mean let's just do this i'm going to start this video off a bit differently by looking at the cpu and our ram and getting those unboxed first i'll then be talking you through all of the other components as we put this system together before booting it up later to see just how well our 12 900k and by extension the new i5 chip from intel perform now in tower very kind and sent us some processors in advance of the official launch so we could take a look and evaluate performance figures for you guys they send us it in this really nice intel unboxing kit so we open it up you can see here it says built for the next generation of gaming i sure hope so and then we get this lovely little older lake placard here with kind of the internals of a cpu alongside this lovely intel acrylic stand that i believe clipped together a little something like that that's quite a nice little ornament and i'm sure that will have a place in the set of our videos for a long time to come underneath here we've got some cpus we've got the brand new core i9 12 900k and the i512 600k these chips are a complete generational shift away from what we saw with 11th gen which is essentially a slightly faster 10th gen with less cores and better clock speeds one of the big advantages as well of the new 12th gen chips is that they support ddr5 memory this is of course the biggest change that we've seen to ram standards in what like six years and to celebrate corsair has sent us this i'm so excited to see what's in this it's a lovely white box that's filthy already so sorry corsair but in here oh my goodness we've got some dominator platinum rgb ddr5 memory this is the special ddr5 edition so that's quite cool and then under here i have no idea what this is but i've heard from the guys in the office who've already had a bit of a play that it's very cool so we take this off and we've got what looks to be like a big placard of some description it's brown and blue and it says on the back of it four out of fifty okay this is a bit bonkers i believe upon further investigation oh my god it's actually see through see my hand this is all acrylic and it's blue it's actually a chopping board for cutting edge performance corsair you are hilarious and you are just marketing geniuses at this point this is awesome it's so heavy as well like really really heavy and i think that's actually a random inside the acrylic like what on earth that is so so sick at christmas last year corsair sent me like a baking kit so i think they're secretly on a mission to kit out my entire kitchen i want to buy a house with some corsair branded kitchenware that's enough of that though let's actually go ahead and explore ddr5 explore our cpus and i think the best way to do that is by installing it all into the motherboard choice for this build another first this right here is the gigabyte aurus z690 master board now this is brand new of course exclusively for these 12th gen cpus it's got support for pcie 5 and supports ddr5 memory it might just be one of the most insane motherboards i've ever seen for a few reasons our ga 1700 support is expected for the latest 12th gen processors we've got this shielding on our ram dim slots which support ddr5 memory the world's tallest m.2 heatsink i mean what is that as mental i'm hoping that won't interfere with thick gpu backplates it shouldn't do we've then got two full length pcie slots down the bottom with this really nice sort of heatsink over our chipset bit of an unusual design as we discussed in our recent unboxing video you can see at the rear of the board we've got wi-fi six here i believe it is we've then got all of our usb 3.2 ports so these are all our 10 gig ports with a pair of usbcs and we've also got 10 gigabit ethernet i love it when uh this is on a motherboard it's so great for those enthusiasts out there for people like us who edit video we want to connect up to a 10 gig server picking up one of these on its own will cost you like a few hundred dollars so as much as this board is not cheap by any means latest pricing and availability can be found at the affiliate links in the description below bit of a mouthful that one uh it will actually provide a good bit of value if it gives you the features that you're looking for anyway in terms of installing the cpu this is actually a slightly different process with the new intel chips than what we've seen before you might also notice that the socket is sizeably larger than on the last gen cpus so as well as intel shrinking that die down they've made the socket bigger more processor for your money and money is actually an interesting point these chips have got some really really competitive retail price in which is really nice to see from intel and absolutely does show the competition that amd have provided in recent years the socket actually folds out in a kind of cool mechanism that's more like thread repair than what we're used to within town but that's fine by me we can then go ahead and drop the chip in a bit more nervous than usual it smells like quite a big moment before actually popping the cover down the black socket cover will also pop off at this point and then securing it down with our retention arm apply a bit of pressure but no force nothing like that and the cpu is installed with that we can go ahead and install our ram or our memory today this right here is a kit of corsair's dominator platinum ddr5 i've been a big fan of the dominator range for many years with capellix rgbs that are super super bright and all in all a really nice design that actually feels quite heavy these are going to be perfect today if you're looking to make a more value-oriented build around the 12th gen processors we will have content for that but this is intended to be a bit more balls to the walls today we're really pushing the boat out and going as far as we can go in terms of getting some really great components not too much has changed on the ramdim front you just need to pull back the second and fourth clips if you're using two dimms or all four clips if you're installing four it's in a very simple case of lining the notch on the memory up it's much further over to the right i think with ddr5 before clipping it into place nice and easily repeat for as many dims as you've got in our case just the two but they are 16 gigs we've got 32 gigs of memory which should be a nice amount for our ryzen for our intel core i know i'm so used to building ryzen pcs because intel just haven't been competitive so it feels good to finally be able to say that and now there is one more thing we need to actually install before i go ahead and slide the motherboard out of the way and that's our m.2 storage i think to do this we need to take off these four screws here and remove the whole sort of heatsink assembly so let's do that first what on earth am i seeing right now is that really like four gen four nvme slots all in like that is ridiculous that is absolutely ridiculous the bottom two are slightly shorter the top two are like full length but even then i don't even need all that length when it comes to m.2s and you get thermal pads on here as well i think we're gonna use the top slot it's a good general rule of thumb and for the storage i've gone ahead and picked up what is widely regarded as the best gen 4 nvme drive on the market this is the seagate fire cuda 530 with read and write speeds both in the region of 7 gigabytes a second this thing is kind of insane you can get it with a heatsink or without a heatsink i don't want to go for the heatsink version today because then we wouldn't be able to pop this thing back on that's the only disadvantage i can see is if you did pick up a drive with a heatsink you then have to reveal and expose all of this which is obviously not something that i think would look particularly good the 530 is an awesome drive though it will help to make sure we don't encounter any storage bottlenecks something that is becoming increasingly more common when you pair up a 3080ti with a cpu as powerful as this one make sure you actually remove the protective film from the heatsink on your thermal pad that is a little bit difficult so you might need to just get a screwdriver in there just dislodge the blue thumb a bit before peeling it up we're then able to really nice and easily slide our fire cuda drive into place 45 degree angle push it down onto your thermal pad and then use one of these a teeny tiny little screw and a teeny tiny little screwdriver to actually fasten our drive into place don't go ahead and drop it like i just did this stage of the process can be super super fiddly to take it nice and slowly be nice and careful then remember of course to remove the thermal pad on the bottom of the m.2 cover as well and then once you've done that we can fasten this just checking i've got the right one i did indeed fasten this back down nice and easily at four screws again to secure it into place and that's pretty much it one big advantage here is that you can access all of your m.2 drives in one foul swoop although i do imagine you'd need to take out the graphics card so there's pros and cons to the approach but i think the board looks absolutely awesome either way once our motherboard then is nicely in the bag and complete we can move on to the case now for this build i didn't really know what case to go for there's some excited options on the market at the moment but i think the corsair 5000 series might just be the most refined i've actually opted to go for the airflow version of the case which doesn't normally come with included rgb fans but because our caller has some rgb fans included we can get the best of both worlds airflow and rgb as usual i think we want to strip down all of the side panels on the case first before going ahead and attempting to screw the motherboard in so that's the glass tempered side panel on the left and the right hand side and then our mesh grilles on the top and the front of the case respectively once you've removed all of the side panels it's then a case of screwing the motherboard in flip it around to the rear and locate each of the standoff holes so we've got three at the top three across the middle and three along the bottom which we'll try and circle on your screen now these need to align with the case where we already have three at the top three across the middle and three along the bottom really really nice a bit of look from us there to have all of those in exactly the right place from the outset this board also has a built-in rear i o shield meaning all we need to do is basically slide our motherboard into place a little something like this line up each of the holes and then in theory the raised center standoff will hold the motherboard in place just for now remember we do need to screw in the motherboard to secure it down and make sure it doesn't go anywhere and then with that the motherboard is pretty much in next up then is the cooler now this is looking ridiculous already the dark gray graphite the black of the case and the massive accents on the motherboard really work well together and i think things are about to get even better with corsair's h150i elite lcd this is pretty similar i think to their elite capellix caller that we really like here on the channel but it has an lcd screen on it as if that wasn't good enough corsair are actually selling the screen separately and it fits it's backwards compatible on a load of their coolers they've released over the last year or so i love that corsair have done this it's a really really pro consumer move yes it makes them more money because people go out and buy screens for their callers but it makes them a lot less money than people having to replace the coolers entirely so i've got to give a lot of credit to corsair on that one you've got these really nice three 120 millimeter included corsair fans they look pretty good you've then also got the water block itself with up top here our screen that looks to also have an rgb ring and a nice recess screens are by no means new on callers nzxt have been doing it for quite a while at this point and many manufacturers like asus and even msi aren't far behind but core says implementation is normally pretty good that iq software suite is fantastic so i'm super interested to see just how well this stacks up you also get this rgb sort of controller hub i want to see if this uh mini commander design is the same as what we've got on some of their other coolers and the good news is it looks to be so the h150i elite capelix that uses the same interface as this which i like i'm glad that course i haven't just changed it for the sake of changing it you also get this nice sleeving as well coming out of the call-out which addresses some of the problems i had before where you would see cable fraying and stuff like that and the sleeve in it sort of embraces the cables rather than trying to hide them and make them super small you've then of course got your lovely 360 ml radiator with support for three 120mm fans as far as installation goes let's make our life a bit easy let's install the radiator at the front of the case with the fans first and worry about our water block in a second because of course the mounting process changed a little bit with lga 1700 and then once that's done we're going to take this included back plate and just pop this through the four holes around the cpu socket itself you then want to pick up the bag of intel 1700 male-to-male screws we're going to screw these around each corner of our cpu itself before popping on the water block and fastening it down with some thumb screws this all sounds a lot more complicated than it actually is but hopefully seeing it visually will give you guys a good idea of the exact steps involved next up then on the component hit list today is the graphics card now we need something that's worthy of matching up with our powerful i9 12 900k and what better option than the rtx 3080 ti well technically the 3090 but that gpu is even more out of stock than these cards and frankly way too expensive for what it actually is you don't need the specs of the 3090 and this was actually designed to be a more reasonable alternative to that gpu i've gone for a gigabyte card to keep in with our theme today a big shout out to gigabyte for lending out the motherboard and the graphics card for this system getting hold of gpus as you guys know is super difficult so we really really appreciate being able to continue making this content if you'd like to learn more about the current gpu shortage and crisis why it exists and when it might possibly end check out a recent video we made in the card section now as far as 4k gaming goes this is going to crush the latest triple-a titles at high and ultra settings 60 to 100 plus frames per second as always though we'll be jumping into detailed gaming benchmarks and of course benchmarks of our lovely 12 900k very shortly so hold tight for that one now we could be boring in today's video and we could just install the gpu in the normal way but something tells me that that's not really what you guys want to see so i've gone ahead and picked up this this is the corsair premium 16x pcie riser so this is going to install into the top pcie slot on the motherboard and basically just act as like a really really big extension cord but for your graphics card to slide that in that will click into place nicely and then we can actually install the gpu in the vertical gpu mount we're going to remove the rear two screws on our pcie covers slide it into the riser and just try and talk all this extra slack behind the gpu out of the way thankfully it's quite mouldable so if you bend it in a certain way it will stay which is really really nice and it should give us a good pcie gen 3 bandwidth beware if you want pci gen 4 you will need to pick up a slightly different riser cable which can be difficult when it comes to limited clearance underneath the pci slot just watch out it can be a little bit tricky finally then all that's left to do is give our system power now ideally i would have gone for like an 850 watt unit from corsair to really tie in with a full iq system but the power supply doesn't really light up that much and i've only got a white one and i thought that would probably ruin the colour scheme and aesthetic of today's system that's where this deep core pm850d comes in a no-nonsense 80 plus gold power supply with 850 watts of capacity that's the perfect amount of wattage for something like an rtx 3080 ti and will work super well for the system today this might seem like a peculiar choice considering it doesn't actually have modular cables but considering we need most of these power cables anyway and they're all black it's going to be fine for me the 80 plus gold certification and 850 watt output is the most important part we can screw this in before giving our gpu motherboard and cpu power this won't be a full cables and wiring guide but we have got one of those on the channel which you can check out in the card section now and with that that just about wraps it up for the build portion of today's video but don't go anywhere because we've got some gaming benchmarks and cpu benchmarks coming up in just a second after the epic glam montage that you guys have come to know and love i'll see you in a sec but first roll that montage oh god i really hope no one knows i've had my haircut so we've established that this pc build looks pretty sick but just how well does it perform that's the all-important question when it comes to intel 12th gen well we've actually tested over 15 of the latest and most popular aaa titles and you can find a summary of all of our results on your screen now we've also published a dedicated review with more cpu specific benchmarks but let's take a look at right now at the gaming numbers that we were able to achieve gta 5 was actually the first test on our list we like to test this game out given its inbuilt benchmarking mode and real sense of repeatability you guys can copy our 4k very high settings configuration and see what results you're able to achieve at home here we managed to pull in 152 frames per second on average this was actually a pretty considerable increase over our comparative test in with a ryzen 9 cpu with the 12 900k really really impressing us here we also tested out watchdogs legion at 4k ultra settings here we achieved 71 frames per second on the 3080ti pushing it to the absolute max with strong 90 and 99th percentile results we also tested the game out at 1080p for gamers looking to stress the cpu a bit more of course a lower resolution puts more demand on the processor and less on the graphics card i'm happy to report that the frame rate nearly doubled jumping us up to 135 fps on average at 1080p ultra settings but what about call of duty's black ops cold war that's the next title on the list today and once again provides another set of really impressive results 4k ultra settings yielded 95 frames per second on average with strong 90 and 99 percentile results which showed some really consistent frame rates as if this wasn't enough we also tested it with ray tracing and dlss enabled at 4k and somehow got higher results than with ray tracing and dlss disabled in fact we managed to pull in 112 frames per second once again 90 and 99 percentiles were strong and gave us some really really good numbers moving on to apex legends next then at 4k high settings we got 135 frames per second so sort of esports level frame rates at 4k high not bad at all showing that at 1080p you could easily surpass the 200 mark what about something like valorent though the next game on the list today and most certainly the easiest of the titles but a game that puts as much strain as possible onto the cpu here we managed to get just shy of 350 frames per second on average with a visual experience that looked pretty stunning moving on to cyberpunk next up then here we tested out first with ray tracing disabled and then with ray tracing enabled with rtx off we got 69 frames per second on average with 65 and 61. this was 4k medium settings while the same setting with ray tracing enabled gave us 63 frames per second cyberpunk the most difficult game to run that i think we've ever tested here on the channel but the fact that we can destroy it over 60 frames 4k high settings it really speaks volumes next up then is fortnite we tested this at a couple of different settings as well 1080p first up high settings gave us 236 frames per second 90 99 percentiles were strong as you'd expect while 1080p competitive settings with everything tuned down to low but the render distance set to far for the best possible frame rates and viewing distance gave us 385 fps quite possibly the highest frame rates we've ever seen at fortnight 1080p competitive settings finally then the last game on the list today is a bit of call of duty's warzone at 4k very high we got 117 frames per second and although this game might have fallen out of flavour just a little bit to apex and fortnite as of late we still got some great results and we're really impressed with not only the 12 900k but the build as a whole if you enjoyed this video make sure to give it a big old light rating get subscribed if you'd like to see more from us thanks for tuning in though and as always we'll see you in the next one\n"