I thought I’d need a 12700K for my build but had to settle for 12100. Got it 1 year ago.

This thing runs everything I throw at it and gives me at least 60FPS.

Even heavily moded Stalker Anomaly gives me reasonable performance.

I switched sides after about 12 years of using AMD CPUs (a 12700k was cheaper to build than 5800X), and this mini beast was a very very good first impression of Intel for me.

  • Atretador@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    well, seems you sticked to AMD thru their worst moments and switched when they were good xD

    Also, 5800X is a bad deal anyway, 5700X is the same but runs cooler…And for gaming a i5/R5 are usually the better options anyway.

  • insoul8@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Performance wise is it on par with a 10700k? Seems to be according to user benchmark but I never know if I should trust that site. If it is, it should be more than enough for current games.

  • bubblesort33@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Most CPUs are way overkill these days. When a CPU limited a GPU to 90% everyone screams “bottleneck” as if it’s going to blow up their PC and rushes to upgrade with a $500 budget to get that extra 10 fps back.

      • bubblesort33@alien.topBEnglish
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        10 months ago

        I think the issues that causes are way overblown vs GPU bottlenecks. It’s a little worse yeah. But people will still drop their CoD or RB6:Siege graphical settings to low on their so they can be CPU limited all day on their 4090.