**The Beast That Is the Intel Core i9-11900K**

We're sitting here with a machine that's pushing the limits of what we thought was possible with a single CPU core. The Intel Core i9-11900K, codenamed "Rocket Lake," is the latest addition to the 11th Generation Core family, and it's a beast of a processor.

With its impressive specs, this chip can handle anything we throw at it - from video editing to 3D animation, software development, and even content creation. But, as with any high-performance machine, there are some caveats to consider. In our testing, we found that the i9-11900K's single-core performance isn't dramatically different from its predecessors, but when we moved to multi-threaded workloads, it truly shines.

Our build of this machine features a 28-pound screen with an impressive 34-inch curved display, perfect for content creators and gamers alike. The Acer Predator 34in curves is a similar offering, available for around $1,250, which is still a significant amount more than the i9-11900K's price point.

**Debunking the Need to Upgrade**

When it comes to deciding whether to upgrade to this new processor, there are some key points to consider. If you're currently using an Ivy Bridge or Broadwell-based system, you might be wondering if it's worth making the jump. In our opinion, the performance difference between these generations is relatively minor - around 10-15% for i5 and i7 models.

However, this all changes with the arrival of the new cache architecture in Intel's latest processor lineup. With up to 16MB of L3 cache, this chip offers a significant boost in performance, especially when compared to more affordable options like the i5-6600 or i7-4770K.

**The Power of Content Creation**

One area where this machine truly shines is in content creation - video editing, 3D animation, software development, and more. With its impressive multi-threaded performance, it can handle even the most demanding workloads with ease. But, as we mentioned earlier, this comes at a cost - around $180 more than the i9-11900K's single-core equivalent.

**Is It Worth It?**

So, is this machine worth the investment? In our opinion, if you're currently using an Ivy Bridge or Broadwell-based system and want to upgrade to a six-core processor with 12 threads, then yes - it's definitely worth considering. However, if you're on a budget or don't need the absolute latest and greatest in terms of performance, there are more affordable options available.

**A Word from Our Sponsor**

Before we wrap up, we'd like to give a shoutout to our sponsor, Amazon Prime. If you're not already a Prime member, we highly recommend signing up - it's one of the best ways to get access to exclusive deals and discounts on all sorts of products, including the parts used in this build.

**The Video**

If you're interested in seeing more of what this machine can do, be sure to check out our full video review. We spent hours filming footage and testing out the system's performance - and it really delivers. As always, we've included a link to the full video review at the end of this article.

**Questions and Comments**

We love hearing from you - so don't be afraid to reach out with any questions or comments. You can do so in the section below, where we'll also include some links to our other videos on this machine. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you next time!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enhello and welcome to Tech deals part five of the $4,000 ultimate no compromise system build video series if you're new to this series the previous parts will be linked below but this is all about Windows performance review part one was Parts review part two was the long Vlog that explained the reasoning behind the system build the why behind the component choices and why this exists part three was the build part four was Windows installation with drivers firmware bios Etc all that fun stuff and this is all about Windows performance review coming up soon will be SSD performance Windows storage spaces overclocking and all sorts of cool videos if you're not subscribed to my channel click subscribe right down right there if uh you want to get notifications to future videos Windows performance review this video is all about General Windows application performance I am going to try and do this as close to all my other windows performance reviews as possible if you're new to my Channel or you haven't seen them if you searching my channel for Windows performance review or if you look at other computers I review I do this test to give you a general idea of what the in Windows Experience is and I do it similar from machine to machine so you can get a rough comparison and an idea of how different computers perform note this is not going to include 3D rendering or video uh editing or video rendering those will come up in future videos this is all about General Windows performance how well does it browse the web play videos multi task etc for this much money it should do great note for anybody who sees the price tag remember half of the price is storage really it's a $22,000 computer with $2,000 worth the storage bolted onto it the reasons why we're detailed in part two the long Vlog so normally I open these with a reboot because I have 10 drives in here and because it's the x99 platform I'm not going to let me just tell you that the reboot time is bios initialization not the SSD once it starts booting it's in Windows in 5 seconds flat it however takes quite a while to initialize the drives and go through the bio sequence it does take longer to reboot an x99 platform or at least this one than it does the z170 and the z97 platforms so we're going to skip that this time rest assured that the Sam uh Samsung 950 Pro in here boots windows in 5 seconds flat so so the first thing we're going to do is download Chrome and we'll hit download now the actual download speed of a web browser is of course dependent on your internet connection for the downloading part but keep in mind that web browsers are not very large these days okay that was the download that's fairly quick this installing part is the computer our boot Drive is the 950 Pro and then we are we going to do Firefox and let's download that download it won't publish yet but the upcoming SSD video which is a side note I've already filmed I'm doing these in a little bit different order there we go don't import anything next there we go now we'll close that don't worry me open this youtube.com/ CTE deals who else there's a handsome mug I've already filmed the SSD per I've been playing with this for many hours and doing variety of things with it um the 950 Pro is awesome don't expect miracles in what you're about to see it's a specialized drive that most people shouldn't buy my recommendation for a machine of this caliber is either an 850 Evo or a SanDisk Ultra 2 with all these cores how many videos do you think we can open 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 I've never done 18 before let's make them all HD I'm going to click the theater button to make them all go into theater mode this forces them into HD when they are running at standard size they are running at uh 480p so this is going to force them all to 720p and many of these videos are at 60 frames per second 720p at 60 frames a second is or should be about the same amount of data as 1080p at 30 18 videos wow try that on your computer now you might ask why would I do this okay I completely understand no reasonable situation is going to have anyone anyone reason any normal situation with a normal desktop computer are you ever going to open 18 videos I completely get that this is simulating heavy load on the computer you may run um other programs you may have five or six different programs that you multitask you may have tons of web browsers open maybe you're listening to music you've got 10 things loaded in the task tray which I don't yet I will I'll have 15 to 20 by the time I've got all my programs on here but rather than set that up on machines this is just meant to stress the system it stresses the CPU it stresses the network connection it stresses the ram hey there's an ad playing don't we all love ads it helps me pay for all this fun stuff so they're all playing I'm only clicking through them so that you can in fact see that they are in fact playing hey there's World of Warships one of my favorite game there's World of Tanks pinballs yeah I know pinball I I tried it what can I say oh l coft so we're now playing 14 HD videos 18 HD videos I've been messing with this for about eight hours now my brain's a little bit fried so we're now playing 18 HD videos we're going to leave those up and we are going to open Chrome and we are going to go to Yahoo again if you've watched my previous videos this will be familiar if it's not let me explain Yahoo's website is terrible their coding is terrible I'm not talking about their content if you like their portal if you like their website as content great that's awesome but the technical design of their website is slow and it's why I use it so I'm going to click on Sports and I'm going to click on fantasy NFL NCAA whatever that is Major League Baseball uh that's 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 Yahoo Tabs go into Chrome on your computer the the other reason I'm doing this is anybody can replicate it if I run specialized testing software you can't necessarily easily test it on your own machine try opening Chrome go to sports and open 11 different tabs at the same time and see how well your machine does maybe your machine does well how does it do while also playing 18 HD videos now the reason I say Yahoo's page is rough is because all of the pictures all of the text boxes all of the frames on this page represent hundreds of individual rep requests to Yahoo and the various ad sites that are serving ads opening 11 tabs I generated between probably 5 to 10,000 individual requests to Yahoo just by clicking on all those that puts a strain on the memory it puts a strain on the CPU it puts a strain on the network Port that is a lot to open up at once that performs really really well wow I've had some machines that struggled with four or five tabs but of course it should it's expensive $2,000 plus $2,000 of storage six cores 12 threads 4.2 GH i7 6800k nice who won Power Rankings mercedesbenz May jump into Formula E well okay fair enough that runs beautifully now let's go open Firefox so I'm leaving those Yahoo Pages open which are not static the ads are Dynamic the pages Auto refresh amazon.com my first place hello dress shop girl if you go to amazon.com sign into the web page and you're not logged into an Amazon account dress shop girl you know one of these days they going to take dress shop girl away from me and I'm going to be sad I'm going to be like no she doesn't dance for me anymore yeah I know by the way yes I have shown that to my wife and yes she rolls her eyes she thinks it's amusing sort of let's go to the i7 6800k shall we $439 is what that's currently running for it's $1100 more expensive than the i76700k 50% more cores 50% more threads double the level three cache double the memory bandwidth okay I'm not going to do a pitch on the computer um just for fun what happens if we do x99 A2 oh that went up $20 okay the uh prices change on Amazon all the time keep in mind in most of my videos I'll mention price at some point Amazon prices the CH changes the prices constantly when I first reviewed this computer the motherboard was 230 now it's 250 give it a week it'll be back down there uh what I pull up GTX 1080 for the win hey it's in stock this was out of stock last week Amazon has the for the win back in stock $680 that's expensive but it's currently the fastest reasonable graphics card you'll find all right let me just go ahead and open up various tabs All Electronics that is Silky Smooth I scroll through this look how smooth and responsive that is that is really nice laptops couldn't be smoother they've got that on sale 240 wow you know that is still a heck of a deal $340 for a 15.6 in I3 laptop that's a full HD screen I've reviewed that many months ago my 17-year-old nephew has that computer one of these days I should just do a general about me Vlog I suppose when I talk about this stuff monitors monitors awesome I recently reviewed this $200 32in IPS 1080p screen that is a gorgeous gorgeous monitor by the way that's not what's currently sitting here Acer 32 in there it is the monitor you're looking at is this 4K 99% srgb color compliance um IPS 187° viewing angle I own multiple of these monitors it is an awesome screen heavy at 28 pounds it's an awesome screen $787 yeah it's a little bit expensive but you know what people buy these there's the Acer Predator 34in curves which is about the same screen size actually a little bit smaller about 5% smaller than this wider but shorter it's about this tall but a little further wide 1440p 5 million pixels this is 8 million pixels and it's $1,250 I have debated buying one of those to review $11,250 that's that's not that's nuts how are our videos going hey there's the uh build video for this computer part three build 2 hours 17 minutes and 38 seconds that took me 6 hours to film there were cuts and I took a break for lunch and a variety of other things but yeah that that took me a long there's actually three and a half hours of footage cut down to 2 hours 17 minutes taking out as many bits as I could and that is oh that's the build video as well it autoplayed it went to something else there's my areu Prime hot deal alert video Prime is awesome if you are not a Prime member you should be thank you for watching Remember to subscribe yeah I put that at the end of most of my videos this isn't even remotely struggling uh we are using 40% of our Ram we're using 12.9 gigabytes bandwidth it's taking about 20 20 25 megabits a second to stream all those videos give or take well it's bursting to 30 our CPU usage 25% and everything closes right up that's crazy can you do everything I just showed you on an i76700k yes you can it has enough CPU to do it this isn't really a fair representation of what this machine gets you nor should you get an i7 6800k for what I just showed you even playing 18 HD videos even opening what was it 11 Yahoo tabs and I don't know 10 Amazon tabs you can multitask and do all that you want with this machine in Windows but the real reason to buy this and it's not gaming it's content creation video editing video rendering 3D animation virtual machines uh software development it's anything that involves a lot of data transfer a lot of data movement and that's not in this video I'm going to be doing some of those videos coming up which I haven't done before but I'm going to figure out a way to do a decent test or something on those I haven't filmed them yet but I will consider this it's about $180 more for this than the i76700k single core performance this is about 5% slower multi-core performance it's 30% faster that strikes me as a deal I don't have any regrets in fact I wish three years ago when I built my uh current machine my i7 4770k the original Haswell I should have done Ivy Bridge e if I had done Ivy Bridge e with six cores 12 threads this wouldn't have been necessary if you have Ivy Bridge e this isn't worth upgrading to that the performance difference between Ivy Bridge e has well e and then Broadwell e 10% it's minor uh it's not worth upgrading those generations and in fact the same thing applies I need to do an updated CP overview the same thing applies to standard desktop ships if you have an ivybridge i5 or an i7 and you want to know whether you should get a Skylake I5 or i7 no not really there's not that huge a difference there might be 15 20% difference between a um an i5 57 uh 3570 I have to think of the model numbers an i5 3570 and an i5 6600 are you going to notic that is that worth spending all the money to change everything probably not I'm hoping that cab Lake e uh cab Lake coming out in I think January or February is going to make a difference but if you don't have a six core system or you want to render videos if you want to edit videos if you want to do heavy multitasking this is a beast like this video if you like it don't if you don't remember to subscribe to my Channel with the big huge red button down there questions and comments go below the video as always check out the video description for my other links to videos on this computer most of which are more interesting than this one this kind of standard Windows performance testing on this is a little bit uh underkill because of the power of the machine and as always check out the video description to uh go to Amazon and New Egg where I bought all these parts and you should too cuz I would appreciate it thank you very much for watching and I will see you next timehello and welcome to Tech deals part five of the $4,000 ultimate no compromise system build video series if you're new to this series the previous parts will be linked below but this is all about Windows performance review part one was Parts review part two was the long Vlog that explained the reasoning behind the system build the why behind the component choices and why this exists part three was the build part four was Windows installation with drivers firmware bios Etc all that fun stuff and this is all about Windows performance review coming up soon will be SSD performance Windows storage spaces overclocking and all sorts of cool videos if you're not subscribed to my channel click subscribe right down right there if uh you want to get notifications to future videos Windows performance review this video is all about General Windows application performance I am going to try and do this as close to all my other windows performance reviews as possible if you're new to my Channel or you haven't seen them if you searching my channel for Windows performance review or if you look at other computers I review I do this test to give you a general idea of what the in Windows Experience is and I do it similar from machine to machine so you can get a rough comparison and an idea of how different computers perform note this is not going to include 3D rendering or video uh editing or video rendering those will come up in future videos this is all about General Windows performance how well does it browse the web play videos multi task etc for this much money it should do great note for anybody who sees the price tag remember half of the price is storage really it's a $22,000 computer with $2,000 worth the storage bolted onto it the reasons why we're detailed in part two the long Vlog so normally I open these with a reboot because I have 10 drives in here and because it's the x99 platform I'm not going to let me just tell you that the reboot time is bios initialization not the SSD once it starts booting it's in Windows in 5 seconds flat it however takes quite a while to initialize the drives and go through the bio sequence it does take longer to reboot an x99 platform or at least this one than it does the z170 and the z97 platforms so we're going to skip that this time rest assured that the Sam uh Samsung 950 Pro in here boots windows in 5 seconds flat so so the first thing we're going to do is download Chrome and we'll hit download now the actual download speed of a web browser is of course dependent on your internet connection for the downloading part but keep in mind that web browsers are not very large these days okay that was the download that's fairly quick this installing part is the computer our boot Drive is the 950 Pro and then we are we going to do Firefox and let's download that download it won't publish yet but the upcoming SSD video which is a side note I've already filmed I'm doing these in a little bit different order there we go don't import anything next there we go now we'll close that don't worry me open this youtube.com/ CTE deals who else there's a handsome mug I've already filmed the SSD per I've been playing with this for many hours and doing variety of things with it um the 950 Pro is awesome don't expect miracles in what you're about to see it's a specialized drive that most people shouldn't buy my recommendation for a machine of this caliber is either an 850 Evo or a SanDisk Ultra 2 with all these cores how many videos do you think we can open 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 I've never done 18 before let's make them all HD I'm going to click the theater button to make them all go into theater mode this forces them into HD when they are running at standard size they are running at uh 480p so this is going to force them all to 720p and many of these videos are at 60 frames per second 720p at 60 frames a second is or should be about the same amount of data as 1080p at 30 18 videos wow try that on your computer now you might ask why would I do this okay I completely understand no reasonable situation is going to have anyone anyone reason any normal situation with a normal desktop computer are you ever going to open 18 videos I completely get that this is simulating heavy load on the computer you may run um other programs you may have five or six different programs that you multitask you may have tons of web browsers open maybe you're listening to music you've got 10 things loaded in the task tray which I don't yet I will I'll have 15 to 20 by the time I've got all my programs on here but rather than set that up on machines this is just meant to stress the system it stresses the CPU it stresses the network connection it stresses the ram hey there's an ad playing don't we all love ads it helps me pay for all this fun stuff so they're all playing I'm only clicking through them so that you can in fact see that they are in fact playing hey there's World of Warships one of my favorite game there's World of Tanks pinballs yeah I know pinball I I tried it what can I say oh l coft so we're now playing 14 HD videos 18 HD videos I've been messing with this for about eight hours now my brain's a little bit fried so we're now playing 18 HD videos we're going to leave those up and we are going to open Chrome and we are going to go to Yahoo again if you've watched my previous videos this will be familiar if it's not let me explain Yahoo's website is terrible their coding is terrible I'm not talking about their content if you like their portal if you like their website as content great that's awesome but the technical design of their website is slow and it's why I use it so I'm going to click on Sports and I'm going to click on fantasy NFL NCAA whatever that is Major League Baseball uh that's 6 7 8 9 10 11 11 Yahoo Tabs go into Chrome on your computer the the other reason I'm doing this is anybody can replicate it if I run specialized testing software you can't necessarily easily test it on your own machine try opening Chrome go to sports and open 11 different tabs at the same time and see how well your machine does maybe your machine does well how does it do while also playing 18 HD videos now the reason I say Yahoo's page is rough is because all of the pictures all of the text boxes all of the frames on this page represent hundreds of individual rep requests to Yahoo and the various ad sites that are serving ads opening 11 tabs I generated between probably 5 to 10,000 individual requests to Yahoo just by clicking on all those that puts a strain on the memory it puts a strain on the CPU it puts a strain on the network Port that is a lot to open up at once that performs really really well wow I've had some machines that struggled with four or five tabs but of course it should it's expensive $2,000 plus $2,000 of storage six cores 12 threads 4.2 GH i7 6800k nice who won Power Rankings mercedesbenz May jump into Formula E well okay fair enough that runs beautifully now let's go open Firefox so I'm leaving those Yahoo Pages open which are not static the ads are Dynamic the pages Auto refresh amazon.com my first place hello dress shop girl if you go to amazon.com sign into the web page and you're not logged into an Amazon account dress shop girl you know one of these days they going to take dress shop girl away from me and I'm going to be sad I'm going to be like no she doesn't dance for me anymore yeah I know by the way yes I have shown that to my wife and yes she rolls her eyes she thinks it's amusing sort of let's go to the i7 6800k shall we $439 is what that's currently running for it's $1100 more expensive than the i76700k 50% more cores 50% more threads double the level three cache double the memory bandwidth okay I'm not going to do a pitch on the computer um just for fun what happens if we do x99 A2 oh that went up $20 okay the uh prices change on Amazon all the time keep in mind in most of my videos I'll mention price at some point Amazon prices the CH changes the prices constantly when I first reviewed this computer the motherboard was 230 now it's 250 give it a week it'll be back down there uh what I pull up GTX 1080 for the win hey it's in stock this was out of stock last week Amazon has the for the win back in stock $680 that's expensive but it's currently the fastest reasonable graphics card you'll find all right let me just go ahead and open up various tabs All Electronics that is Silky Smooth I scroll through this look how smooth and responsive that is that is really nice laptops couldn't be smoother they've got that on sale 240 wow you know that is still a heck of a deal $340 for a 15.6 in I3 laptop that's a full HD screen I've reviewed that many months ago my 17-year-old nephew has that computer one of these days I should just do a general about me Vlog I suppose when I talk about this stuff monitors monitors awesome I recently reviewed this $200 32in IPS 1080p screen that is a gorgeous gorgeous monitor by the way that's not what's currently sitting here Acer 32 in there it is the monitor you're looking at is this 4K 99% srgb color compliance um IPS 187° viewing angle I own multiple of these monitors it is an awesome screen heavy at 28 pounds it's an awesome screen $787 yeah it's a little bit expensive but you know what people buy these there's the Acer Predator 34in curves which is about the same screen size actually a little bit smaller about 5% smaller than this wider but shorter it's about this tall but a little further wide 1440p 5 million pixels this is 8 million pixels and it's $1,250 I have debated buying one of those to review $11,250 that's that's not that's nuts how are our videos going hey there's the uh build video for this computer part three build 2 hours 17 minutes and 38 seconds that took me 6 hours to film there were cuts and I took a break for lunch and a variety of other things but yeah that that took me a long there's actually three and a half hours of footage cut down to 2 hours 17 minutes taking out as many bits as I could and that is oh that's the build video as well it autoplayed it went to something else there's my areu Prime hot deal alert video Prime is awesome if you are not a Prime member you should be thank you for watching Remember to subscribe yeah I put that at the end of most of my videos this isn't even remotely struggling uh we are using 40% of our Ram we're using 12.9 gigabytes bandwidth it's taking about 20 20 25 megabits a second to stream all those videos give or take well it's bursting to 30 our CPU usage 25% and everything closes right up that's crazy can you do everything I just showed you on an i76700k yes you can it has enough CPU to do it this isn't really a fair representation of what this machine gets you nor should you get an i7 6800k for what I just showed you even playing 18 HD videos even opening what was it 11 Yahoo tabs and I don't know 10 Amazon tabs you can multitask and do all that you want with this machine in Windows but the real reason to buy this and it's not gaming it's content creation video editing video rendering 3D animation virtual machines uh software development it's anything that involves a lot of data transfer a lot of data movement and that's not in this video I'm going to be doing some of those videos coming up which I haven't done before but I'm going to figure out a way to do a decent test or something on those I haven't filmed them yet but I will consider this it's about $180 more for this than the i76700k single core performance this is about 5% slower multi-core performance it's 30% faster that strikes me as a deal I don't have any regrets in fact I wish three years ago when I built my uh current machine my i7 4770k the original Haswell I should have done Ivy Bridge e if I had done Ivy Bridge e with six cores 12 threads this wouldn't have been necessary if you have Ivy Bridge e this isn't worth upgrading to that the performance difference between Ivy Bridge e has well e and then Broadwell e 10% it's minor uh it's not worth upgrading those generations and in fact the same thing applies I need to do an updated CP overview the same thing applies to standard desktop ships if you have an ivybridge i5 or an i7 and you want to know whether you should get a Skylake I5 or i7 no not really there's not that huge a difference there might be 15 20% difference between a um an i5 57 uh 3570 I have to think of the model numbers an i5 3570 and an i5 6600 are you going to notic that is that worth spending all the money to change everything probably not I'm hoping that cab Lake e uh cab Lake coming out in I think January or February is going to make a difference but if you don't have a six core system or you want to render videos if you want to edit videos if you want to do heavy multitasking this is a beast like this video if you like it don't if you don't remember to subscribe to my Channel with the big huge red button down there questions and comments go below the video as always check out the video description for my other links to videos on this computer most of which are more interesting than this one this kind of standard Windows performance testing on this is a little bit uh underkill because of the power of the machine and as always check out the video description to uh go to Amazon and New Egg where I bought all these parts and you should too cuz I would appreciate it thank you very much for watching and I will see you next time\n"