The products that have marked the Overclocking.com community in 2022.

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If you follow us, you know that we have a great community that we engage regularly. Why? Simply because the “real” players in the hardware world are them. Even if we all remain enthusiasts within the editorial team, it is obvious that the regular passage of various and varied products can sometimes alter our judgment. The value of things in particular, the arbitration when you have to choose what to buy for a given budget… These simple reflexes, even with the best will in the world, can escape us when we have at our disposal all this hardware that we enjoy testing. That’s why we wanted to ask our overclocking.com community to know which products were the most important for them in 2022. If this first exercise is not totally perfect in its organization, the TOP 5 that emerges is still well in line with our general philosophy.

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What is the Overclocking.com community?

Gathered within a Discord server, our community answers first of all to some general principles. Passion obviously but also and above all benevolence, the will to share and help. Finally, we have a deep horror of toxic behaviors and of individuals looking for a space to express their frustrations. On these bases, we are not ashamed to say that we sort and even discriminate. Because yes, we choose with whom we want to share our time and live our passion. You will have understood that quantity is not an objective for us.

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These principles being specified, you will find among us enthusiasts whose behavior often defies reason when you see the budget they spend on hardware. But these enthusiasts are passionate people who like to share, who like to help and who respect as much the one who buys a 4090 HOF as a GTX1650. So we have collected their opinions on the products which are, for them, the most outstanding of 2022. Some of them bought them immediately at full price, others dream of doing so by taking advantage of the feedback of the former.

The most significant products in 2022

The TOP 1: Intel i9-13900K

There was no real suspense for the #1 product. The votes quickly came down in favor of the latest i9 from Intel. The versatility of the Raptor Lake made the difference and it must be said that this is an observation that emerges on other products of the blue range.

Obviously, the editorial staff also shares this feeling and you can find our complete test here.

You can find it around 600$ currently.

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i9-13900K: in the best products quoted by the overclocking.com community in 2022

The TOP 2: EVGA Z690 DARK KingPiN

It’s a bit of a surprise not for the qualities of this card but for the unanimity that it made within our community. So yes, we like EVGA products and especially those that pass through the hands of KingPiN. We are happy and at the same time worried that we are perhaps living the end of this period.

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Obviously this motherboard is not a board like the others. We can’t recommend it for a “daily” PC… But those who like to get their hands under the hood will enjoy it. Its unique design is already enough to bring happiness to its happy owners. Funny thing, the distribution of this card, even more than the rest of the EVGA range, has been particularly chaotic these last months. When you know the number of cards circulating in our community, you can guess that they were often imported or that they come from parallel circuits. This obviously has consequences on its price…But when you like…

Find our complete test of the Z690 DARK KingPiN here. And you can find it for $529 currently (-36%).

 

The TOP 3 : Nvidia RTX 4090 FE

When you like it, you don’t count… But still, the qualifiers that are used about Nvidia are not often praising lately. But the RTX 4090 is a monster and that is indisputable. Its Founders Edition is the least expensive and its design (like most FEs) is remarkable. A situation that poses many problems to the “custom” versions of the partner brands and that will undoubtedly get worse in the future.

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Decried, the RTX 4090 is nevertheless among the best products for the overclocking.com community in 2022

So YES this card is overpriced, yes it’s crazy, yes it’s useless for most users…But in reality it is quite relevant within the Overclocking.com community. Passion will never be synonymous with “reason”. It is this passion that leads a photo enthusiast to invest crazy amounts of money for a camera when objectively an iphone could suffice. This same passion that makes the bike salesman sell his most expensive models to the Sunday enthusiasts. Nothing new under the sun, this situation has always existed. We’ve stated here several times that it’s not the 4090 or even the Titan that we have a problem with, but what comes underneath. Find our test here. And if you want to spend $2000 go here.

The TOP 4: Intel i5-13600K

An excellent choice of reason but without making any real concessions. The i5-13600K will be in front in most of the uses leaving its place with rare exceptions to its big brother i9-13900K. Definitely the best choice for a gaming machine but also for content creation. Good news, its price is rather lower, taking advantage in Europe of the more favorable evolution of the €/$ parity. Find it for 319 here.

 

The TOP 5 : AMD Ryzen 7 5800X3D

Some might think that the presence of this CPU in the most outstanding products of 2022 is an anomaly…In reality, its place is perfectly logical given the context. A little background: launched in early 2022, this processor was intended to be AMD’s answer to Intel with a significant performance improvement in games thanks to a dose of additional L3 cache. While Zen 4 was on everyone’s lips, the use of AM4 motherboards facilitated, on paper, the adoption of this processor. But its particularly chaotic availability did not make life easier. The arrival of the Ryzen 7000 was supposed to overshadow this transitional range, but the steady drop in its price as well as the aggressiveness of the AM4 platforms made it a wise choice for building a gaming PC in the second half of 2022.

Some are for sale on amazon.com for $335.

 

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Ryzen 5800X3D is selected in the best products by the overclocking.com community in 2022

 

And the other products?

Obviously, we had to have a TOP 5 but we can’t help but mention other products regularly mentioned by our community. Iconic or niche products like the RTX 3090 Ti HOF and HOF OC Lab for example or the Asus Z690 APEX.

But we also find “smart” products regularly mentioned like the i3-12100F or the excellent MSI Z690 A-Pro DDR4 motherboard. Other surprising results are the presence of the 3070Ti or the ALIENWARE AW3423DW. We won’t talk about the MO-RA3 which is to be classified in the running gags of the community…

In short, a rich year, with a strong acceleration over the last few months, obviously leading to an upheaval of the setup of our enthusiasts. If you are interested in this material and have a question to ask: do not hesitate, the only place you’ll find real experts is here.