Intel's Rocket Lake i9 11900K is currently its best gaming CPU, but don't let it eat up your entire budget, as you'll want one of the best gaming motherboards to go along with it. That's not just a recommendation but somewhat of a requirement, as tests show that some motherboards aren't as compatible with the processor as they claim.
Hardware Unboxed analysed several B560 motherboards with Intel's 11th generation chips using Blender and Cinebench. While locked CPUs like the i5 11400F, i5 11600, and i7 11700F fared just fine with their lower wattage, higher powered processors like the i5 11600K and the i9 11900K ran into problems with ASRock's B560M-HDV.
ASRock states on its website that both chips are compatible with the caveat that "CPU performance may be limited due to power phase design." What isn’t clear, however, is that the motherboard reduces them from 125W to 65W out of the box, lowering their frequencies so they don’t even meet Intel’s minimum specification. The 11900K, for example, only hits 3,125MHz instead of its rated 3,500MHz base frequency.
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