Worth buying a 10900k golden chip for £1500?

No it's not worth it. You a gamer? Ok it'll probably get you a frame or two best case scenario a cpu limited game might get you more. But not £1500 worth. In the future I doubt you'll get much more or even MSRP value for the 10900k when you sell it.

Mine as well buy a 3090 from for that money. That's bigger bragging rights to way more people than an Intel CPU. It'll also give you more performance assuming you game.

But if it makes you happy and you can afford it then really comes down to you and nobody else.
 
If you already have an 10900K, why would you pay an extra £1500 for just the exact same chip, but only clock a little higher?... Sure, at a maximum you'll get 50 fps more from it (which I highly doubt though), are those 50 fps then worth £1500?

I'd say absolutely not, save those money for a nice vacation once the pandemic is over.
 
100% not worth it, there's way better things to put that money to, a better GPU or top flight monitor, the CPU is diminished returns.
 
Intels current offerings are not worth touching with a barge pole, Get a 5900X or 5950X if you need the extra cores.
 
Because if you are going to spend that much money you may as well get your money's worth. 16 core cpu and a motherboard would be much more powerful overall than a 10900k that can clock an extra few hundred mhz.
 
Thanks for your replies. The way I was seeing it is...

10900k retail £450ish
Cry cooler £350

If I could get it for £1000 and sell my chip for £450 then really all it cost me is £550ish for a golden sample and a cryo cooler.

Now, I can get good clocks with mine and apart from a good SP number and maybe a stable 5.4 all core with lower voltage than mine I don't think there will be a difference.

The only reason I did not go AMD was because I managed to get a brand new Asus Maximus Xii Extreme for £300. I dont need more than 10 cores either. I mainly game, stream and 3D design with 3ds max and some Autocad work.
 
5950X also has PCI-E 4.0

10900k is limited to PCI-E 3.0

PCI-E 4.0 can give very noticeable gains in some situations.
 
So you'd get 100-200MHz more? Why? 100MHz is less than a 2% gain at above 5GHz. Ryzen would be a better performing chip in most cases, but I struggle to see why you'd want to upgrade from 10900k until DDR5 generation.
 
Well if you want one and have the disposable income, why not. I don't think any upgrade from a 10900k is sensible until two gens down the road. But hobby purchases aren't always rational.
 
That level of cooling is not worth it. £1500 is too much money for a CPU that won't be Intel's desktop flagship in a few weeks, even with overkill cooling.

TBH, you are better off with a standard CPU with a low latency memory kit of reasonable speeds. That's the best bang-for-buck ATM. There are other areas of a system that you can invest in.
 
Yeah I think you have knocked some sense into me. I dont really have the income but I was planning to sell my CPU and the cry cooler and the CPU would just cost me 450ish as I worked him down to £1000. but since mine is above average overclocker apparently I will stick with it even though my SP score is rubbish.
 
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Your SP score is fine, An extra 200MHz will not make any real world difference, Don't let some silly little benchmark program dictate your purchases.
 
MadShadow said:
To be fair, if you're the sort of person who considers buying this, it may be worth it to you.
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Well I'll be one of those that jumps in here now in this regard. I have been that person many times before and looking back, 9 out 10 times, it was never worth it. It was always "I wanted it", never "I needed" or "I require" it.

I think that IF it would be worth it enough to the OP, they would never have made this thread in the first place. Then you'd know it was worth it. Considering they made an actual thread asking about it, shows rather deep doubts and hence 9 times out of 10, it's not worth it. They know it deep down, just needed this thread and us in order to hit the head on the nail, to make them open their eyes and realize it.

I can absolutely vouch for this on this forum and especially to AlienALX, Dicehunter, AngryGoldfish, Warchild, WYP to name a few previously, I have made so many dumb and spotantious purchases that were completely unnecessary. Even though I did not see it as first, I did after you guys helped me open my eyes and see it.

Our fellow member said it well above:

looz said:
Well if you want one and have the disposable income, why not. I don't think any upgrade from a 10900k is sensible until two gens down the road. But hobby purchases aren't always rational.
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Dawelio said:
Well I'll be one of those that jumps in here now in this regard. I have been that person many times before and looking back, 9 out 10 times, it was never worth it. It was always "I wanted it", never "I needed" or "I require" it.

I think that IF it would be worth it enough to the OP, they would never have made this thread in the first place. Then you'd know it was worth it. Considering they made an actual thread asking about it, shows rather deep doubts and hence 9 times out of 10, it's not worth it. They know it deep down, just needed this thread and us in order to hit the head on the nail, to make them open their eyes and realize it.

I can absolutely vouch for this on this forum and especially to AlienALX, Dicehunter, AngryGoldfish, Warchild, WYP to name a few previously, I have made so many dumb and spotantious purchases that were completely unnecessary. Even though I did not see it as first, I did after you guys helped me open my eyes and see it.

Our fellow member said it well above:
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Yep, I've made some silly purchases in the past that after a few days of owning them I thought "that was definitely not worth it".
 
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