Many players will put the price ratio first before the installation. The real computer masters, which will match the right hardware for their own games when they are installed. For hardware for excess performance, you can properly use a hardware that is required to increase your graphics and other hardware, so you can get a better gaming experience.
A processor determines the basic performance of the computer, but if a price expensive processor is selected within a limited budget, it will greatly compress the selection space of other parts, but it has not been lost. Therefore, it is also particularly important to match the selection of the processor!
Speaking of cost-effective, Core i5 processor has always been ignored, compared to high-end Core i9 / i7 and entry-level Core i3 in the core number, frequency, cache and other specifications, especially suitable for performance, and price A more sensitive mainstream users, especially gamers.
When the Core processor develops to the ninth generation, Intel has fully adjusted product strategies, and all published mainstream desktop processors have a versionless version (which is f). Nuclear views may be critical to office users, but for gamers, after removal of the nuclear display, not only reduce the operation of the processor, but also due to the improvement of the manufacturing, the price is also large. The magnitude reduction is more in line with the original intention of DIY players.
I5-9400F is the most popular model in the nine-generation Core F series, or it is also the most popular model. Jingdong Mall has more than 51,000, and the frequency is as high as 98% is enough to prove everything. So after the listing is half a year, how is this "old" now?
Below we will use the Core i5-9400F processor to perform a detailed game test, see if it is worthy of thousands of game God u.
Core i5-9400F processor adopts 6 core 6 thread design, base frequency 2.9GHz, acceleration frequency 4.1GHz, full-core frequency up to 3.9GHz, and three cache 9MB. There is almost no difference from I5-9400 on the parameter, the only difference is to cancel the nuclear display. In the case of high load, the power consumption of i5-9400F will be lower.
Game Performance Test: Most game frame rates under 1080P resolution
The test platform is as follows:
In the game test link, we selected 12 mainstream games, including "Apex Hero", "Tomb Raider: Shadow", "Jedi Survival", "Assassin Campaign: Odys" This popular masterpiece .
Aspects of the graphics card, the best choice should be the mainstream and performance grade products such as RTX 2060, GTX 1660 Ti, but here in theory, I5-9400F game strength can achieve, we choose A top RTX 2080 TI, and add 4K resolution test to see if it can bring.
The test results are summarized as follows:
It can be seen that at 1080 [resolution, except "Assassin's Creed: Odyssey", the average frame rate of other tested games is above 100fps, like "Apex Hero", "Jedi Survival" is currently very hot online competitive The game, I5-9400F's average frame rate even more than 200fps If you just have a 144HZ electrical display, you will get a very comfortable gaming experience.
Power consumption and temperature test: The oven machine power consumption is only 110W of the oven temperature up to 53 degrees
1, temperature test
Using the AIDA64 FPU program to test the temperature performance at the time of default, use the player storm captain 240pro water-cooled radiator, silicone is Arctic MX-4, room temperature 27 degrees.
After 3 minutes of oven test, the core temperature of the I5-9400F processor is very stable, and the processor power consumption is 62W. The operating frequency is maintained at 3.9GHz, which is also the highest full-core frequency of I5-9400F. .
2, power test
Test the power consumption of the standby and copying. The power used for the test is a cool-cooling V850 platinum gold power supply. The following data is the platform machine power consumption.
At standby, the I5-9400F machine power consumption is 48W, when using the AIDA64 FPU to make the obsolete, the power consumption is also very low, only 110W.
Summary: Value cost-effective gamers' wise choices
The game performance performance of Core i5-9400F is beyond our expectations. At 1080p resolution, the average frame rate of most test games is above 100fps, like "APEX Hero", "Jedi Survival" These very popular online competitive games, I5-9400F average frame rate or even more than 200fps . If you just have a 144HZ electrical display, you will get a very comfortable game experience.
The high frame rate that I5-9400F ran out in "Jedi Survival" in the test is incapable, but it can be seen by the task manager and the GPU-Z GPU usage, when the RTX 2080 Ti usage is used When 98%, the GPU power consumption reached 276W, the usage rate of this processor was only 90%. That is to say, in the game "Jedi Survival", I5-9400F can fully exert all the strength of the RTX 2080 Ti.
Even if it looks for I5-9400F, it is too too demanding 4K resolution, but also all the whole game, almost all games can keep 60 + fps complete smooth, occasionally low, so if you restrict the game resolution and There are high requirements for quality, need higher-end graphics cards, don't worry about I5-9400F.
In terms of power consumption, although Intel's 14nm process has been spitted by the players, but in fact, the power consumption of i5-9400F is very low, and the machine power consumption is only 110W when using the AIDA64 FPU Over. Very low power consumption makes this processor's requirements for the motherboards, and the B360 / 365 motherboard for the 4-phase power supply design that works will meet the requirements.
The corresponding to the low power consumption is low temperature, and it is easy to press the heat of I5-9400F using the radiator of the box.
In terms of price, the current Core i5-9400F boxed offer is 1299 yuan, the price is less than half of the high-end processor, if the high-end processor is considered in the power supply, heat dissipation, and the motherboard requires the cost of the expense of the cost, I5-9400F The cost-effective advantage will be more obvious.
Of course, if you are a creative worker, you need a video clip suppression, 3D rendering and other work, support multi-threaded i9-9900k will be more appropriate.
If you are just a pure game player, the pursuit of stability does not want to toss, in addition to the game, the computer is only used to go online, office, then Core i5-9400F will be more affordable.
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