Test System and Testing Procedures
Test System
- Core I9 9900k
- Z390 Aorus Pro
- MSI Gaming X Trio 2080 ti
- 64 GB G. Skill Trident Z 3200 MHz CAS 14
- EVGA 1600 Watt Supernova P2 80+ Platinum PSU
- Swiftech H320 X2 Prestige 360 mm AIO Cooler
- 512 Intel SSD 6 660p (OS)
- 500 GB Samsung 860 EVO M.2
- Primochill Praxis Wetbench
System Benchmarks
- Aida64 Engineer
- CineBench R15
- WinRAR
- 7-zip
- 264 FHD
- 265 HD
- Handbrake
- PCMARK 10
- Performance Test 9
Storage Benchmarks
- ATTO Disk Benchmark
- Crystal Disk Mark 5
Utilities
- CPUZ
- Core Temp
- Hardware Monitor
Synthetic Gaming Benchmarks
3DMARK Firestrike
3DMARK Time Spy
Gaming Benchmarks
Assassins Creed Odyssey
Far Cry 5
Shadow of The Tomb Raider
Watch Dogs 2
To keep things as fair and balanced in each review, I keep the ambient temperature at about 21°c, or about 70°f. All benchmarks were done at stock speeds. The exceptions to this were Cinebench R15. Cinebench R15 was tested at stock, and with the CPU overclocked. Although the stock clock for the 99ook is 3.6 GHz, this processor boosts pretty high. Throughout all testing, the I9 9900k used in this review ran at a constant 4.7 GHz and at times, boosted to 4.8 GHz on all cores. All benchmarks, games and utilities, were ran three times each and averaged out the three results. The exception to this was both 3DMARK Firestrike and Time Spy and the read and write speeds on the storage benchmarks. The results for the I7 8700k were tested on the Aorus Z370 Gaming 7 using the same memory and boot drive.
