The Dilemma of Overclocking: A Risky Business

For those who want to play it safe and avoid the risk of damaging their CPU, motherboard, or other components during overclocking, it's clear that Intel's latest enthusiast-level processor is not the best choice. The company's high-end CPUs are designed for performance, but this comes at a cost - a higher risk of damage and a potentially shorter lifespan. For those who don't want to take on this risk, there's no need to feel pressured into purchasing one of these powerful processors.

In fact, some people may not even be comfortable with the idea of overclocking in the first place. They may not have the skills or knowledge required to safely push their CPU to its limits, and they're perfectly happy with a processor that can handle their needs without any issues. This is perfectly okay, and it's essential to acknowledge that not everyone wants or needs to be an enthusiast when it comes to computer hardware.

For those who are comfortable with overclocking but want to minimize the risk of damage, there are steps that can be taken to reduce the likelihood of problems. Using a high-quality cooling system, for example, can help to keep temperatures under control and prevent overheating, which is a common cause of damage during overclocking. Additionally, using a motherboard with built-in voltage regulation and monitoring capabilities can also help to ensure that the CPU is not pushed too hard.

However, even with these precautions in place, there's still no guarantee that everything will go smoothly. The risk of damage remains, albeit small, and some people may be more comfortable living with that risk than others. Ultimately, it's up to each individual to decide whether or not they're willing to take on the risks associated with overclocking.

In terms of performance, Intel's high-end CPUs are certainly capable of delivering impressive results in gaming and other intensive tasks. However, when it comes to multi-threaded workloads and content creation, the horizon 3000 series processors fall short. This is a critical area where AMD's Ryzen processors excel, and Intel will need to address this gap if they want to be competitive.

The horizon 3000 series CPUs are not necessarily a game-changer in terms of performance, but rather an incremental improvement over existing technology. They're designed to compete with AMD's Ryzen processors in the gaming market, where Intel has historically had a strong presence. However, even by this measure, the new CPUs don't quite live up to expectations.

The real excitement comes from watching how other competitors perform, particularly AMD, which will be eager to respond to Intel's latest offerings. Until we see how these processors hold up in real-world testing and reviews, it's difficult to get too excited about the horizon 3000 series. For now, they're a solid addition to Intel's lineup, but not necessarily a game-changer.

In conclusion, the decision to overclock or not is a personal one, and there's no right or wrong answer. However, for those who don't want to take on the risks associated with overclocking, there are plenty of other options available that can provide similar performance without the added risk. Ultimately, it's up to each individual to decide what works best for them, but for those who do choose to overclock, be aware of the potential risks and take steps to minimize them.

Personal First Impressions

As I've been playing around with the horizon 3000 series CPU, I've had a chance to get some first impressions. In general, it seems like these processors will perform similarly to Intel's previous high-end offerings, which is a good thing if you're looking for consistent performance in gaming and other intensive tasks.

However, as I mentioned earlier, the real excitement comes from watching how these processors hold up in multi-threaded workloads and content creation. It remains to be seen whether the horizon 3000 series will excel in these areas or not.

For now, it's safe to say that if you're an enthusiast looking for a powerful CPU to play with, these processors are definitely worth considering. However, if you're on a budget or prefer to keep things simple, there are plenty of other options available that can provide similar performance without the added risk and complexity of overclocking.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enare you ready kids oh I can't hear you I got that Oh who's the fastest gaming trip every day okay that's right captain it's late 2019 and the Intel Core i 999 hundred K eight core sixteen thread CPU is still the fastest gaming desktop processor on the market but today it finally gets overthrown by itself until it's got a new chip coming up soon this is just an unboxing video but the review embargo will be lifting shortly this is the core I $9.99 hundred K SS as in Sam not F isn't Frank the KF is the one that doesn't have integrated graphics that's slightly cheaper this is totally different sort of different it's a highly bin variant of the existing 9900 K which means it can turbo right out of the box on all cores to 5 gigahertz 4.7 gigahertz all core turbo 5 gigahertz all court turbo that also means we're talking about a higher TDP going from 95 watts to 125 27 something like that so out of the box this chip will definitely have higher thermal and power requirements than this one as well apart from that they're more or less identical this still has integrated graphics it's still got hyper threading smart cache and all that stuff it's just faster out of the box has a higher GDP and of course it's going to come with a premium over the 9900 K what that premium is gonna be yet we have no idea we'll find out once they review embargo lips but let's go ahead and unbox this sucker and just see what's inside I have no idea if they sent me a retail sample or if it's like just in a Oh what is this this is interesting it looks like a proper retail box or maybe it's a press press sample box okay oh it's just it's the same exact packaging it's just in a fancy box okay so there's a bag so the 900k box says unlocked this says unlocked special edition I seriously think these are the coolest and most annoying retail packages ever like for a CPU what even is this one two three four five six twelve dodecagon it's like a Japanese puzzle okay yeah so this is an engineering sample it does say Intel confidential on it unboxing videos are already pretty pointless for perfect launches like this actually you could argue for most if not all launches but an unboxing video for a CPU is especially silly because there's really nothing physical to talk about it is exactly the same as every other coffee like CPU but still people want to see it for some reason so I'm making a video about it so there it is gold contacts there's still gold there's still eleven hundred and fifty one of them and the IHS is is good looks great not cracked or anything in great shape thank you for watching this video so the chip also lists its base clock of four gigahertz a lot of people may not see the value in the CPU right off the bat because there's a lot of users out there who own ninety nine hundred KS that can already hit five gigahertz on all cores through manual overclocking but there's a big difference to a select group of people there's a big difference between a CPU that can hit five gigahertz out of the box versus one that can't what I mean by that is there's a lot of reasons why you should overclock there's a lot of good reasons why I suggest people do but there's also a fair amount of reasons why you wouldn't want to overclock for one you're voiding your warranty not that Intel would be able to very easily tell if you were overclocking your CPU should you return it but for those who want to play things by the book it makes sense to to want to stray away from that to some degree and there's also the risk factor of potentially damaging the CPU in the overclocking process or potentially the motherboard or something like that small chance very very small chance of that happening but for some people that worst-case scenario is scary enough to want to stray them away from potentially harming their $500 plus investment which I completely understand as well now assuming those risk factors don't apply to you and you fall into that group of people who are comfortable with overclocking with a ninety nine hundred K you're still not guaranteed that you'll be able to hit five gigahertz on all eight cores I was actually just looking it up on silicon lottery comm and they said they found in their testing that but only the top 37 percent of their 99 hundred K F's were able to hit five gigahertz uh no of course they didn't have the spec numbers or the data for just the regular K period but that is to say that less than half of these things will be able to hit five gigahertz on all course even if you're manually overclocking and let's just say you do get that golden K sample that's able to hit five gigahertz chances are you're still gonna have to push more voltage through to sustain those frequencies than you would with a highly bin version of that same CPU simply based on the difference of silicon quality and as you know feeding a CPU higher amounts of voltage especially if it's constant can potentially reduce its lifespan not to mention all of the additional heat that's incurred during operation which for a computer component is never good now yes of course you could delive the cpu to help improve thermals and reduce voltage requirements and things like that but then there's another risk factor there too you could potentially damage your CPU in fact a much higher chance of something going wrong than if you were simply overclocking that's a chance understandably so a lot of people don't want to take so I'm not trying to say all this to scare people away or stray them away from these enthusiast level activities in fact I encourage them at your own risk of course I'm just trying to make a point that there's a group of people who can still buy a $500 enthusiast level CPU and not want to touch it or tweak it in the slightest and that's ok and for those group of people for that slice that small slice of the customer base by the CPU might be an attractive option obviously I haven't tested this thing yet I literally just took it out of the box in front of you but I do have some first impressions I think more or less it's gonna tell the same story as the 9900 ok and that story is gaming if all you care about is gaming gaming is the primary intensive task but you're gonna be doing with your system and you could care less about anything else these are your boys they do a fantastic job of that but as soon as you introduce multi-threaded workloads and content creation then you really have to start examining and considering the other side because the horizon 3000 series processors offer a lot of versatility a lot of bang for the buck and they're really strong contenders when you're when you're talking about a multitude of different workloads and I think at the end of the day that's why I'm not super excited about the CPU it's because it's not really a game changer it's not going to change the status quo or be the cpu that Intel needs to disrupt the market what the KS essentially is is Intel beating themselves in a specific category which is gaming saying we're the best gaming CPU and look with this release we're still the best gaming CPU but even by a white or stretch and that's fine that's just not super exciting if a world records to be broken it's usually more exciting when it's two competitors trying to top each other rather than one person just upping their game you know again and again so it's exciting for some people but it's definitely not gonna be the processor that a lot of people are saying Intel needs right now to be super competitive against AMD but let's have to wait and see until we get it on the test bed if you guys want to see that follow up content feel free to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss it and tussilago this video if you enjoyed it it helps a lot also check out the merch store but the new heatsink they'll plastered on shirts and hoodies they're super comfortable and super high-quality a great way to support the channel as well until next time guys thank you again for watching have a good one and I'll see you all in the next videoare you ready kids oh I can't hear you I got that Oh who's the fastest gaming trip every day okay that's right captain it's late 2019 and the Intel Core i 999 hundred K eight core sixteen thread CPU is still the fastest gaming desktop processor on the market but today it finally gets overthrown by itself until it's got a new chip coming up soon this is just an unboxing video but the review embargo will be lifting shortly this is the core I $9.99 hundred K SS as in Sam not F isn't Frank the KF is the one that doesn't have integrated graphics that's slightly cheaper this is totally different sort of different it's a highly bin variant of the existing 9900 K which means it can turbo right out of the box on all cores to 5 gigahertz 4.7 gigahertz all core turbo 5 gigahertz all court turbo that also means we're talking about a higher TDP going from 95 watts to 125 27 something like that so out of the box this chip will definitely have higher thermal and power requirements than this one as well apart from that they're more or less identical this still has integrated graphics it's still got hyper threading smart cache and all that stuff it's just faster out of the box has a higher GDP and of course it's going to come with a premium over the 9900 K what that premium is gonna be yet we have no idea we'll find out once they review embargo lips but let's go ahead and unbox this sucker and just see what's inside I have no idea if they sent me a retail sample or if it's like just in a Oh what is this this is interesting it looks like a proper retail box or maybe it's a press press sample box okay oh it's just it's the same exact packaging it's just in a fancy box okay so there's a bag so the 900k box says unlocked this says unlocked special edition I seriously think these are the coolest and most annoying retail packages ever like for a CPU what even is this one two three four five six twelve dodecagon it's like a Japanese puzzle okay yeah so this is an engineering sample it does say Intel confidential on it unboxing videos are already pretty pointless for perfect launches like this actually you could argue for most if not all launches but an unboxing video for a CPU is especially silly because there's really nothing physical to talk about it is exactly the same as every other coffee like CPU but still people want to see it for some reason so I'm making a video about it so there it is gold contacts there's still gold there's still eleven hundred and fifty one of them and the IHS is is good looks great not cracked or anything in great shape thank you for watching this video so the chip also lists its base clock of four gigahertz a lot of people may not see the value in the CPU right off the bat because there's a lot of users out there who own ninety nine hundred KS that can already hit five gigahertz on all cores through manual overclocking but there's a big difference to a select group of people there's a big difference between a CPU that can hit five gigahertz out of the box versus one that can't what I mean by that is there's a lot of reasons why you should overclock there's a lot of good reasons why I suggest people do but there's also a fair amount of reasons why you wouldn't want to overclock for one you're voiding your warranty not that Intel would be able to very easily tell if you were overclocking your CPU should you return it but for those who want to play things by the book it makes sense to to want to stray away from that to some degree and there's also the risk factor of potentially damaging the CPU in the overclocking process or potentially the motherboard or something like that small chance very very small chance of that happening but for some people that worst-case scenario is scary enough to want to stray them away from potentially harming their $500 plus investment which I completely understand as well now assuming those risk factors don't apply to you and you fall into that group of people who are comfortable with overclocking with a ninety nine hundred K you're still not guaranteed that you'll be able to hit five gigahertz on all eight cores I was actually just looking it up on silicon lottery comm and they said they found in their testing that but only the top 37 percent of their 99 hundred K F's were able to hit five gigahertz uh no of course they didn't have the spec numbers or the data for just the regular K period but that is to say that less than half of these things will be able to hit five gigahertz on all course even if you're manually overclocking and let's just say you do get that golden K sample that's able to hit five gigahertz chances are you're still gonna have to push more voltage through to sustain those frequencies than you would with a highly bin version of that same CPU simply based on the difference of silicon quality and as you know feeding a CPU higher amounts of voltage especially if it's constant can potentially reduce its lifespan not to mention all of the additional heat that's incurred during operation which for a computer component is never good now yes of course you could delive the cpu to help improve thermals and reduce voltage requirements and things like that but then there's another risk factor there too you could potentially damage your CPU in fact a much higher chance of something going wrong than if you were simply overclocking that's a chance understandably so a lot of people don't want to take so I'm not trying to say all this to scare people away or stray them away from these enthusiast level activities in fact I encourage them at your own risk of course I'm just trying to make a point that there's a group of people who can still buy a $500 enthusiast level CPU and not want to touch it or tweak it in the slightest and that's ok and for those group of people for that slice that small slice of the customer base by the CPU might be an attractive option obviously I haven't tested this thing yet I literally just took it out of the box in front of you but I do have some first impressions I think more or less it's gonna tell the same story as the 9900 ok and that story is gaming if all you care about is gaming gaming is the primary intensive task but you're gonna be doing with your system and you could care less about anything else these are your boys they do a fantastic job of that but as soon as you introduce multi-threaded workloads and content creation then you really have to start examining and considering the other side because the horizon 3000 series processors offer a lot of versatility a lot of bang for the buck and they're really strong contenders when you're when you're talking about a multitude of different workloads and I think at the end of the day that's why I'm not super excited about the CPU it's because it's not really a game changer it's not going to change the status quo or be the cpu that Intel needs to disrupt the market what the KS essentially is is Intel beating themselves in a specific category which is gaming saying we're the best gaming CPU and look with this release we're still the best gaming CPU but even by a white or stretch and that's fine that's just not super exciting if a world records to be broken it's usually more exciting when it's two competitors trying to top each other rather than one person just upping their game you know again and again so it's exciting for some people but it's definitely not gonna be the processor that a lot of people are saying Intel needs right now to be super competitive against AMD but let's have to wait and see until we get it on the test bed if you guys want to see that follow up content feel free to subscribe to the channel so you don't miss it and tussilago this video if you enjoyed it it helps a lot also check out the merch store but the new heatsink they'll plastered on shirts and hoodies they're super comfortable and super high-quality a great way to support the channel as well until next time guys thank you again for watching have a good one and I'll see you all in the next video\n"