The i9-9900K is upon us, along with the rest of Intel’s 9th-gen Core CPUs. The company revealed its Coffee Lake-R processors during an event yesterday that went quite well. Intel revealed its lineup of upcoming Core and Xeon chips. It also spent quite a lot of time talking about how the i9-9900K is the “best gaming CPU ever.” A day later, you would expect that people would want to talk about whether they need to upgrade and whether the price is fair, but that’s not the case. Instead, PC-hardware enthusiasts are furious at Intel for a couple of bonehead moves that it could have avoided.
The two major problems with the event have to do with the i9-9900K. This is Intel’s new high-end gaming chip to compete with AMD’s Ryzen 7 2700X. Like that Ryzen chip, the 9900K has eight cores and 16 threads. It runs at 3.6 GHz, but it turbos up to 5.0 GHz on one-to-two cores. Across all cores, it has a turbo of 4.7 GHz. To me, it sounds a lot like Intel’s 8th-gen i7-8086K with two extra cores. That’s nothing mind-shattering, but I think the 8086K is a great piece of hardware.
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