Testseek.co.uk have collected 214 expert reviews of the Intel Core i9 12900K 3.2GHz Socket 1700 and the average rating is 88%. Scroll down and see all reviews for Intel Core i9 12900K 3.2GHz Socket 1700.
November 2021
(88%)
214 Reviews
Average score from experts who have reviewed this product.
Users
(93%)
1063 Reviews
Average score from owners of the product.
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The editors liked
Superior to AMD's 5950X in most benchmarks
Improved gaming performance
Superb single/multi-core performance
Both CPUs offer integrated graphics
12900K marginally cheaper than 5950X
Incredible productivity performance
Incredible performance
Power efficient
Supports all the latest tech
Great for gaming
Storming gaming performance
Good productivity performance that is close to Ryzen 9 5950X
Intel has finally moved on from its 14nm process
Intel's Performance Hybrid architecture is a major change of direction
Support for PCI Express Gen 5
The editors didn't like
Extremely power hungry
Costly to upgrade to
Problems with gaming performance
Requires other hardware upgrades
Will have to buy all new hardware
Power draw is high and efficiency is unimpressive
DDR5 is brand new and will take time to improve
High cost for the new platform
Windows 10 performance is unpredictable. Best to use Windows 11
There is minimal potential for overclocking with conventio
