The best Intel Core i9-9900K Processor 8 Cores review

The best Intel Core i9-9900K Processor 8 Cores review

The best Intel Core i9-9900K Processor 8 Cores review

pros
Gaming performance
Performance in both single- and multi-threaded workloads
Solder TIM

cons
Price
Cooling requirements
Power consumption under heavy load

Test System & Configuration
Hardware	Germany Intel LGA 1151 (Z390)Intel Core i9-9900K, i7-9700K, i5-9600K, i7-8700K, i5-8600K, i5-8400MSI MEG Z390 Godlike2x 8GB G.Skill FlareX DDR4-3200 @ DDR4-2667 & DDR4-3466AMD Socket AM4 (400-Series)AMD Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5 MSI X470 Gaming M7 AC 2x 8GB G.Skill FlareX DDR4-3200 @ DDR4-2667, DDR4-3466Intel LGA 2066 Intel Core i7 MSI X299 Gaming Pro Carbon AC 4x 8GB G.Skill FlareX DDR4-3200 @ DDR4-2666All SystemsGeForce GTX 1080 Founders Edition (Gaming) Nvidia Quadro P6000 (Workstation)1x 1TB Toshiba OCZ RD400 (M.2, System SSD) 4x 1TB Crucial MX300 (Storage, Images)be quiet! Dark Power Pro 11, 850W Windows 10 Pro (All Updates)U.S. Intel LGA 1151 (Z390)Intel Core i9-9900K, i7-9700K, i5-9600K, i7-8700K, i5-8600K, i5-8400MSI MEG Z390 Godlike2x 8GB G.Skill FlareX DDR4-3200 @ DDR4-2667 & DDR4-3466Intel LGA 2066Intel Core i9-7820XMSI X299 Gaming Pro Carbon AC4x 8GB G.Skill FlareX DDR4-3200 @ DDR4-2666, DDR4-3200AMD Socket AM4 (400-Series)AMD Ryzen 7 2700X, Ryzen 5 2600XMSI X470 Gaming M7 AC2x 8GB G.Skill FlareX DDR4-3200 @ DDR4-2933All SystemsEVGA GeForce GTX 1080 FE 1TB Samsung PM863SilverStone ST1500-TI, 1500WWindows 10 Pro (All Updates)
Cooling	GermanyAMD Wraith RipperAlphacool Ice Block XPXEnermax LiqTech 240 TR4Thermal Grizzly KryonautU.S.Wraith RipperCorsair H115iEnermax Liqtech 240 TR4 II
Power Consumption Measurement	Contact-free DC Measurement at PCIe Slot (Using a Riser Card) Contact-free DC Measurement at External Auxiliary Power Supply Cable Direct Voltage Measurement at Power Supply 2x Rohde & Schwarz HMO 3054, 500 MHz Digital Multi-Channel Oscilloscope with Storage Function4x Rohde & Schwarz HZO50 Current Probe (1mA - 30A, 100 kHz, DC) 4x Rohde & Schwarz HZ355 (10:1 Probes, 500 MHz) 1x Rohde & Schwarz HMC 8012 Digital Multimeter with Storage Function
Thermal Measurement	1x Optris PI640 80 Hz Infrared Camera + PI Connect Real-Time Infrared Monitoring and Recording
Acoustic Measurement	NTI Audio M2211 (with Calibration File, Low Cut at 50Hz) Steinberg UR12 (with Phantom Power for Microphones)Creative X7, Smaart v.7 Custom-Made Proprietary Measurement Chamber, 3.5 x 1.8 x 2.2m (L x D x H) Perpendicular to Center of Noise Source(s), Measurement Distance of 50cm Noise Level in dB(A) (Slow), Real-time Frequency Analyzer (RTA) Graphical Frequency Spectrum of Noise

9TH GEN INTEL® CORETM
i9-9900K PROCESSOR
THE NEXT LEVEL OF PERFORMANCE

SPECIFICATIONS:
Unlocked & Overclockable2 YES
Intel® Turbo Boost Technology 2.0 Frequency (GHz) 5.0
Base Clock Speed (GHz) 3.6
Cores/Threads 8/16
Intel® Smart Cache 16 MB
TDP 95 W
Platform PCI Express* Lanes Up to 40
Memory Support Two channels
DDR4-26663
Chipset 300 Series
(Including Z390)

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all right well here we are again guys with yet another refresh of skylake and the script for this one which helpfully included in the box here is pretty much the same as last time with there we go so let's see here we got more cores and we got some more cash to go with them and done it no new process node no avx-512 support and I can't even believe this we're still using the same gt2 graphics engine with the same number of execution units at the same clocks but is it possible

that there's more than meets the eye yes and I'll be telling you about it after these messages from origin origin PC 0 15 s features a smooth 144 Hertz 1080p display with an NVIDIA GTX 1070 max Q graphics card and also weighs only 4.3 pounds check it out at the link below , let's start with some good news shall we intel has finally caved to the pressure or made the decision on their own using whatever new logic that they use and soldered the IHS to the dye which should mean that we won't need to keep deleting our CPUs in order to get decent

thermals out of them though on not not promising that I won't do that anyway what do you think Pella should I do it should I risk processor you only live once right this is it but our delicious solder cheeseburger also comes with a side of on it milkshake because for the first time that I can remember we are actually losing hyper-threading and some of the cash perk or on the 9th 10 core i7 in fact for now nothing but the new 8 core core hundred K includes hyper threading technology so Intel doesn't screw me over here because my core i3 i5 i7

explainer is now inaccurate just weeks before it would have hit 10 million views so way to go guys thanks a lot the hardware mitigations for Spectre and meltdown do make me feel a little bit better though these should take over from some of the software and firmware fixes which again this is a big should restore some extra performance per core speaking of firmware we've actually got a new chipset on our hands except that it's basically what we think the Z 370 chipset should have been in the first place with the only added features being USB 3.1 gen2

support and integrated Wi-Fi via what Intel calls integrated connectivity or the summe for short I'm sorry just kind of an aside here do you guys remember when Intel had simple memorable marketing like and Centrino who the hell is in charge over there right now I mean even the core i3 i5 i7 nonsense was less confusing than this hotness and at least 10 million people need I remind you didn't understand that on the plus side at least both the ninth gen chips and boards are backwards compatible with 8th gen gear and vice versa bringing us then

to the elephant in the room more cores it seems Intel has finally had enough of AMD lording Ryze ins 8 cores over them and here we have not one but two Intel Core Series CPUs with 8 cores but with that said they haven't yet tired of AMD lording they're more aggressive pricing over them because for a 16 thread processor you will be paying a nearly 40% premium to get a blue case badge making the cheaper 8 thread core i7 possibly a much easier pill to swallow at least we think so because in telling their infinite wisdom isn't sampling that chip yet so we were

forced to pull a little trick out of our hats that we've used before so in our grass you're gonna see performance numbers for the 9900 K the core i9 then you're gonna see performance numbers for that same chip with its hyper threading disabled and it's maximum two core boost adjusted to 4.9 gigahertz we're gonna be labeling these results core i7 9700 K because from our experience in the past these results should be very close to the real chip but they aren't the real chip so hence the finger quits alright here we go right away we can see that Intel's PR and

marketing departments got at least one thing right over the last couple of scandal-plagued weeks this CPU is absolutely the best CPU in the world for gaming it's faster than the 8700 K which pretty much qualifies it right there but the difference here is relatively minor a few FPS here and there and what's weird is that it seems to be struggling with DirectX 12 right now as expected the extra course aren't doing us any favors in current gaming titles and we're pretty much relying on the extra 300 megahertz on the boost clock for our performance games just

like with the 8700 K when it first launched it should be noted however that the RT X builds of games like Battlefield 5 should take advantage of more course so maybe we will see a bigger difference there whenever those builds show up moving on to productivity it's here that we see the biggest improvements over the 8th gen flagship and thanks to the extra clock speed the 9900 K even manages to eclipse the more expensive core i7 78 20x on intel's high-end x 299 platform that even extends to avx-512 enabled workloads like blender where traditionally intel's high-

end desktop chips dominate on a per core basis what's even more exciting for streamers is that x264 performance is significantly improved here with the new core i 9 landing striking distance from the 7900 X whose MSRP is nearly double so the 9900 K is looking pretty good so far and if you've been paying attention to the graphs you'll probably also have noticed that our simulated core i7 9700 K is also holding up well typically outperforming the 8700 K that it replaces making the loss of hyper-threading confusing but less of a big deal from a performance

standpoint than you might have expected and there's more to be happy about - thanks to the soldered IHS the Cora 999 hundred K actually enjoys better thermals than the 8700 K from last generation even under full load and sustained power consumption is actually down as well that's especially good news compared to the relatively power-hungry 78 20 X but and it's a big but we haven't addressed the price tag yet at 30 to 40% more than the core i7 8700 K and rise in seven 2700 AMD Intel's 8-core 16 thread consumer chip is in a price bracket all on its

lonesome somewhere in the no-man's land between the consumer and the high-end desktop markets which means that gamers are going to do a double-take and anyone building a budget workstation is going to be forced to choose between per thread performance and memory bandwidth and PCI Express Lanes because Z 390 doesn't add quad channel memory or more PCIe lanes unfortunately now that we have real performance numbers instead of the bummed

up ones that intel either through blatant malice or stunning ineptitude showed off before the launch where are we left here with limited availability potentially pushing that higher the Cora 999 hundred K ends up looking less compelling to us than intel's own core i7 9700 k and this whole launch in general doesn't look like it's gonna go over too many pure gamers from cheaper lower core count options even from Intel's own line up men for the streamers out there who are looking to upgrade honestly we probably

recommend an RT X GPU for its stellar hardware h.264 encoder instead as for the non-gamers AMD is still fighting this battle from a position of strength Rison still gives you more chorus per dollar it includes ECC support if that's important to you and it even brings more PCI Express Lanes to the table but if gaming is just one of the things you do and you want the best of both worlds at least Intel has some response now to the fantastic performance of the r7 2700 X in non gaming applications I mean there is something to be said for getting to the end of your shift and firing up csgo at over 500 frames per second we're going to need some faster monitors

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The best Intel Core i9-9900K Processor 8 Cores review

that reviews go live absolutely ever around the globe for Intel ninth gen CPUs we obviously had the PR launch a week ago but today's the day you can actually see actual reviews of hundred K which is what we got an engineering sample rather than the retail part but it's certainly very close to the correct thing as to whether it's exactly identical no way of knowing there's also the i7 9700 K which is the same part but without hyper threading so I've done some testing with hyper threading disabled to get an idea what that would be like and i5 9600 K

which is the six core part haven't got one of those can't really replicate it by disabling calls wouldn't be fair when we're looking at technologies we're principled here Intel's briefing in New York F some gaps in our understanding about these ninth gen CPU starting with what makes them ninth gen sure you get more cores sure the heat spreaders soldered but it's just a bigger hopefully better version of coffee Lake they're calling it well and they're not really

calling it it has been called coffee lake refresh as to what actually makes it a refresh rather than the extension well perhaps that's just nitpicking but nonetheless we've gone to nine serious part numbers and the same is true for skylake X so clearly they're pushing to the end of the line with four digits I must confess I have long hated the core name I don't like the fact that their core i5 was typically a quad core the core i7 was a four core then six core and now we've got the i9 which is eight core I cannot understand why the eye part isn't followed by a number that gives you a clue about the number of cores but I've said that before I'm good well I've just said it

again hopefully this is the end of the line for this particular numbering system so whatever they come up with next we would like to think they can change and get away from this confusing situation so we've got a few questions the Zed 390 chipset how does it perform in ninth gen throughout this launch review I've used this z3 90 horas master from gigabyte which has behaved absolutely wonderfully I as you will have seen hopefully in mazeed 390 preview before and off to the Intel event I've got a stack of Zed 390 motherboards so I put up the gigabyte it

seemed like it should behave itself the hardware looks good and if it didn't add other boards on standby it behaved so I plowed on and worked with that board throughout but I've done some mixing and matching so I've put the ninth gen CPU on the z3 90 but also ends at 370 I've switched an 8th gen processor from z3 7203 90 there was one little quirk I came up with there but the fact the matter is you can interchange CPUs and chipsets in the 300 series therefore the z3 90 chipset brings nothing to the party in its own right it brings integrated Wi-Fi support

which as I said in that preview doesn't really mean quite as much as it sounds in that the motherboard manufacturer still has to add a load of hardware so you will find Zedd 390 motherboards that do not have Wi-Fi and the new chipset changes the USB support which is typically in most motherboards anyway it's just using an add-in controller Zed 390 in and of itself appears to make no difference whatsoever however Zed 390 motherboards that have been built to support 8 core CPUs you can expect to be bigger better versions than Z 370 so a Zed

390 board in and of itself doesn't mean a thing but if you look at the specs you'll see they've raised the bar and that's a good thing so we have a soldered heat spreader how well does that work we've got more cores how well does that work how fast does it run and what about that pricing the test setup streak on test bench we've got 90 X 28 graphics card it's just a common or garden fanless addition these Zed 390 horas master motherboard as mentioned g.skill Sniper X memory 3400 16 gigabyte kit no 64 gig kit here you will note we also have a 1300 watt prime

platinum power supply from sea sonic and then the cooler is a fractal designs Celsius s 20 Forge is a 240 ml ice tech apart from the fact it works well it also has a variety of mounts such that I can use it on absolutely everything because I'm using core X here at correct series so that's LGA 2011 3 we've also got a rise in 7 2700 X therefore a m4 and we've got LGA 1150 platform so no air cooler from the AMD box here either so we're good to go first question on the agenda is out of the box the core 999 decay what speed does it run on all cause because Intel would not

tell us that here we are in blender our power monitoring our perronnette ixora is open were drawing a couple of watts the processor is down at a base speed of 800 megahertz which is idling and we click to a render and we go up to a shade under 4.8 gigahertz on all cores and you could see 0 through 7 so 8 cores power draw has shot up to 175 watts for the CPU HW info says 171 watts I'm gonna sets a French and a higher 175 but we're in the correct ballpark CPU package 68 degrees as you would expect as the job progresses CPU package is creeping up so

it's now 70 72 and in the various runs I've done that we'll go up to 76 on auto settings at stop clock time taken is 212 seconds the big question how do we do an overclocking so in the bias go to Advanced frequency settings I set the base clock to 100 rather than to auto because Otto's like 102 wants to know exactly where our stirred clock ratio 50 XMP enabled I had to then tickle up the multiplier because XMP only gave me 3 3 3 3 not that that really matters but you know let's let's have a level playing field advanced CPU core settings show us the mod par is

indeed 50 and we need to set the Uncle Ray she had 47 according to gigabyte so done everything else is on auto and the voltage so we've got 1.35 core voltage which is slightly higher than gigabyte thought we might need to use and load line calibration there is turbo which as you can see is third from the top we've got two more settings to go so that's increased but it's nothing too extraordinary and because I'd already set these settings previously I'm quitting without saving because those settings are already enabled into Windows what we have here is that the

CPU package temperature and HW impose 24 degrees as opposed to 14 in a 264 because that's reading off the motherboard so 24 degrees is the idle temperature 23 24 and if we look up at our power figures here we're drawing about 10 watts absolutely nothing start aida64 to stress just the CPU not the memory not the drive not the GPU power zooms up to just about 200 watts and as we can see here HW infos reporting a powder around 196 watts on 97 was so I would say the power draw is probably a couple of watts higher than that but called it in around money

200 watts package is now 80 degrees rising rising and then it just drops back a little and bounces around so we can agree we're drawing 200 watts at 5 gigahertz and the temperature is heading up towards 90 and then falling back so it looks as though there is a hint of throttling occurring and that set the parameters for testing the i99 500k out of the box 4.8 gigahertz all cause if you're doing things like it's ready to go to sort of 5.0 5.1 or 1 or 2 cores but on all cores

and you make the thing work hard 4.8 or you can overclock it and drive the temperatures up to throttling territory 5.0 gigahertz which is nothing so 4.8 and gigabytes optimistic you might get 500 5.2 on 1.30 to 1 three five volts no in fact I tried one point 4 volts which I have used previously on coffee like and that didn't help so that that process is pointing the correct direction this engineering sample of i99 to 500k would appear to have a limit of 5 gigahertz and s2 design quite extraordinary so 4.8 it's cut is delivered at maximum performance naturally as

comparison I ran my i7 8700 K on this a Zed 370 from asrock and extreme for board and then I ran the 8700 K in the gigabyte z3 90 horas Master board the I 1900 of the box is the way to use it forget about overclocking is my opinion which is interesting because when I did the second gen rise ins from AMD rise in 720 700 X rise in five 2600 X I came to the same conclusion the dynamic overclocking that's built into them works brilliantly well bolted down put some

pruning on it let it run it works and it would seem to be the same with UI 9 what I don't know is whether interest on saying clever with the I 9 or if it's just kind of how it technology's always been and now it's got soldered heat spreader is able to actually deliver the performance it should be able to deliver anyway but as but the Tim was proven holding it back when I disabled hyper threading on the i9 to make it a fake i7 9700 K it brought the performance really close to the core i7 8700 K which is 6 cores 12 threads so 6 cores 12 threads 8 cores 8 threads very similar given that the clock speeds are also very close which makes me wonder about the

performance of a genuine i7 8 9700 K that is gonna be an interesting processor for gamers but as I said in the preview to this review before after I got back from New York it's a cheaper than the i9 and that doesn't strike me as her any great saving I mean for an i7 under 7 decay or for the i9 instinct is that the I 9 is going to be the one but I haven't done an actual direct back-to-back comparison of two retail processors I've got an i9 engineering sample to say what hyper threading to pretend I've got an i7 so the is 7/3 he looks like a competent performer but the difference in price does not appear to be enough

nonetheless the figures in the graphs should be of interest to you visually speaking this review is a catastrophe because of course one processor looks much like another processor this new 8 core core online looks very similar to the six core Core i7 that preceded it also and this is tricky tricky is the best word this is very much a review of the core announced language of K rather than ninth gen because as far as I'm concerned there isn't a 9th gen this is a refresh of the 8th gen and each of the three models are individual and specific as to why Intel has separated the snack the way they have and what they're playing at I'm genuinely confused I'm hoping this is

going to become more clear over the next week or three because we've had talk that the disabling hyper threading in everything bar the i9 is something to do as security it's something to do with spectrum meltdown and reducing vectors for attack but the thing with that is if removing hyper threading reduces vectors of attack you'd think they'd remove hyper threading and all their CPUs so I don't understand that I can only think that the reason that you get the a core 16 thread then the 8 core then the 6 core is just to put clear lines of separation between

each processor in turn to my mind the i9 at the top of the stack is better value for money than the i7 that comes one notch down because for double the threads but the pricing is absolutely absurd I'll come back to that let's start by saying which process are lost this test is this one here it's the is 778 20x skylake X on X 2 9 9 and the reason it's lost is because it's clock speed is way down compared to its desktop brethren I don't think it's an entire coincidence that Intel announced the 9th gen 9800 X going up to 99 8 Exe with

soldered heat spreaders and yet we haven't seen them yet because the i9 9800 X which is a core 16 thread at the bottom of the stack in terms of pricing looks really cheaper than you step up a chunk to the I 998 20x which is the 10 core but those two models down the bottom of that stack I think are gonna be points to the correct process at the i9 9900 I think there's going to be a lot of crossover and if the sky layer cakes refresh if that's what it is Robin Basin Falls if that with the soldered heat spreader can ramp up by a few hundred megahertz then you're going to be in

the realms of pick a platform because the entry level high in desktop and this processor here the processors would be the same money motherboards are about the same price why wouldn't you put yourself on the high-end desktop route rather than starting with an expensive Zed 390 motherboard and i9 1900 the tree not many go any further or you can start with there's either external or there rumors about a refresh for that which would be X for 99 I think this said because the 399 is thread Ripper so if you start if you start down that route you've then got the

option if you choose to bump up your processor to 18 cause you know if you want to use many more calls for video editing or somesuch and you into quad channel memory and all sorts high-end desktop skylake X at the moment the core i7 78 20x that losses even though it does have its merits but in this context it loses but it's perfectly possible that its replacement will be absolutely back in the mainstream then we have coffee like on Zed 370 and the thing that's really coming becoming apparent to me here is that the coffee lake boards they had to be

bumped up in terms of juice compared to KB Lake because something we had six cores of processors and they had to be work to mother manufacturers and some did a good job and some did a less good job we saw a similar thing with risin 7 when rises having launched the first wave of boards really weren't that good they tended to be problematic although that's different because the manufacturers could be forgiven for wondering whether a risin was actually a platform that went anywhere and of course it's gone great guns absolutely brilliantly so when it

came to the second gen risin 7 mm series the motherboards they really really stepped up good bits of work I mean there are some cheaper boards are less good but the good boards are really good and it seems to me it's the same as ed 390 that said 370 could be good or could be less good said 390 I'm sure they're gonna be some you know boards you don't wanna touch but there gonna be some better boards that you really will want to go for on the other hand if you buy the I 990 100 K plunk it on a cheap board I don't know how that's gonna work I don't hold out a

lot of hope for it because power delivering cooling is so important to the platform intel has obviously delivered the i9 absolutely at the limits of its thermal performance and then we get the bigger picture so Andy's been pushing forward risin 7 and then thread Ripper saying cause cause cause cause we know that it doesn't cost AMD a great amount of money to put those cores on the table because they're CCX approach which we applaud it has a lot of benefit we also know their clock speeds are lower whether that's because of the CCX approach or different

technology we're not entirely sure but nonetheless Andy's been pushing forward with cause Intel's been slowly ramping up behind them Intel's moved from full course to 6 cores to eight cause I think we can say that AMD's pushed them into that position and her off of that what's gonna happen next we hope is that the software developers were actually stops take advantages cause now we need to actually see it happen in practice AMD eight cores Intel eight cores yeah it's time for the software that can support it right now games at high resolution odd GPU

bound we find this time and again of course there are some games like ashes to the singularity that a CPU banned or can use CPU more efficiently that's great but nonetheless generally GPU bad now if you're playing with a high-end platform and a decent GPU at 1080 yes you can find that actually is the CPU one in which case I'll say to you high resolution get a decent monitor play at a higher resolution because games at high resolution look wonderful that's just all there

is to it but you need the hardware so you're gonna be spending a fortune on your graphics god which takes us around to pricing but before I forget I said in the introduction I found a quirk and that was running the i9 on the asrock said 370 board the auto voltage setting was 1.5 volts 1.5 1/2 from memory I've never seen an auto setting that's gone anything like one point for now I'm not in any way putting any a nasty on as rock for that brand new processor a bias update I'm certain will sort it out I think the idea that Allen's going to run the i9 on the Z 370 extreme

for his remote I don't know if you know will ever do it I've done it but there are going to be some funnies coming out of this sort of mixing and matching of hardware that is absolutely certain and clearly the asrock Board thought the processor wanted to draw a lot of juice so it fed it a lot of voltage and we're getting back to it pricing on the face of it for that CPU and for that CPU which are both eight core 16 thread when that one does five gigahertz and that one well 4.8 gig goes and that one does 4 gigahertz well 4 point and a bit gigahertz is just daft double the money for nothing like double the performance so you'd be

absolutely crazy to buy the intel on the face of it however you have to take into account the whole cost to the platform you've got memory which is still brutally expensive although obviously you can go cheaper decent power supply that's gonna cost you and so on and so forth so the differential in CPU is significant but all the other parts of the system now so the sniper X memory has been running on both platforms I've been using the

same Celsius s 24 from fractal cool up and using the same see Sony prime platinum power supply and so on and so forth it's the motherboards and motherboards these motherboards are not significantly different in price and the difference in the CPU so no argument no argument whatsoever nonetheless to say double the money yeah but not double the cost of the system nonetheless the Intel is stupidly expensive crazy expect almost insulting ly expensive and I am astounded the Intel has priced the i9 without any reference to the Rison 7

whatsoever it just seems to me either willful or arrogant I'm not sure which it is the idea that the punters are not going to consider vote at least partly on that basis I can't see yet and and for the is-7 without hyper-threading that's also a colossal difference now when you start getting into are you work on video editing or somesuch if you're doing blender if you're using a lot of CPU power and you're not really gaming that much then of course you can move off to the high-end desktop it says

pointing at the sky like X or indeed you can move to thread Ripper there are different platforms available but not exactly for amateurs but for the enthusiast these platforms will handle video editing really nicely the i9 900k has good performance no doubt about it the fact it has stim but the power and heat are really not good Intel has had to solder the heat spreader just to keep it at the same level as the six core coffee like I'm actually surprised at how little benefit there was from it I expected to see more benefit but no the heat on the I Knight

americaís is slightly concerning running out of the box do nothing with it it's good but of course you don't have the opportunity leading and putting proper cooling you know how it comes is how it comes so I I doubt that putting a custom loop on it is gonna make a massive amount of difference compared to that a stick a stick does a perfectly decent job I will try a custom loop block on the on this CPU and see how it behaves but I don't hold out much hope it's going to

make a radical difference I was also truly impressed throughout my benchmarking instantly that the gigabyte or a said 390 master the VRMs on that were just running so cool at all times it was quite awesome to behold which again goes back to my point which is that the quality of the high motherboards has stepped up considerably in this generation what should you spend your money on without seeing the i7 in the i-5 very tricky to say at the moment I cannot see any reason to upgrade to Intel ninth gen I just cannot if you have an 80 700 K and you haven't

deleted it and you deal with it then you're basically there so what would be the point in buying yourself eight cores a very expensive CPU can't see it Skylar cakes the soldered nine gen CPUs they're coming out relatively soon if you're considering spending this type of money and particularly considering buying a motherboard and the processor it would seem to me out that so that's nine hundred or pounds or potentially more I wait please wait see what that one does

because you might Nakoa x-29 is dead if you're considering dropping this cpu and your existing Zed 370 board depending on how good the board is that might work but it you're not going to see a lot of benefit I would say my takeaway here is negative and that's really disappointing to me this is a big launch I'm really glad the intel's made the move and put eight cores on the desktop finally the fact it's just that one model that's got the eight core 63 and then eight cause

then six core so it's very much a halo product but the pricing is absolutely just outrageous I don't see why they didn't produce this processor a year ago on the other hand Intel's roadmaps have been in turmoil with the lack of ten nanometer so this product was presumably never meant to exist but here we are it does work I guess they wanted to do 5 5 gigahertz on all calls out of the box but it doesn't nonetheless four point eight out of the box and auto is pretty darn impressive and the temperatures on the auto are reasonable nonetheless it's got a lot of

negatives you need to go back you need to look through the graphs and see exactly which scenario suits you because the idea that this process is going to suit everybody out there not in a million years not a chance for many people this rise in seven twenty seven hundred x is overkill and now that start look like an absolute cat of a processor but this this is an animal does some incredible things it costs a fortune if you overclock the power draw is substantial .

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ModelBrandIntelProcessors TypeDesktopSeriesCore i9 9th GenNameCore i9-9900KModelBX80684I99900K
DetailsCPU Socket TypeLGA 1151 (300 Series)Core NameCoffee Lake# of Cores8-Core# of Threads16Operating Frequency3.6 GHzMax Turbo Frequency5.0 GHzL3 Cache16MBManufacturing Tech14nm64-Bit SupportYesHyper-Threading SupportYesMemory TypesDDR4 2666Memory Channel2Virtualization Technology SupportYesIntegrated GraphicsIntel UHD Graphics 630Graphics Base Frequency350 MHzGraphics Max Dynamic Frequency1.2 GHzPCI Express Revision3.0Max Number of PCI Express Lanes16Thermal Design Power95WCooling DeviceCooling device not included - Processor Only.