HOW is THIS for Gamers?? - Intel Core i9 9900K

Is your Coffee Lake getting cold? Good news! Intel’s refreshing it. Are you ready for 8 cores and a new, even more confusing naming scheme?

NOTE: Please see the pinned comment for more detailed board settings.

Buy an Intel Core i9 9900K:

Buy an ASUS Maximus XI Hero:

Buy a Ryzen 7 2700 instead:

Or get a Core i7 8700K as the actually available Intel option:

Intro Screen Music Credit:
Title: Laszlo - Supernova

[LinusTechTips]

Since our thermal and power consumption numbers are very different from other publications, here's some clarification on our board settings:

-Multi-core enhancement: Disabled
-SVID behavior: "Intel Fail-Safe" / Intel's default
-XMP: Enabled
-All power duration and limit settings default
-Core multiplier at defaults
-Core voltages at defaults

Cooler: Corsair H115i w/IC Graphite thermal pads

The performance numbers we got were double-checked against Intel's engineers, and they were in line; This suggests that our thermal tests are indicative of stock performance (with motherboard vendor optimizations disabled). We did *not* ask Intel about their thermal or power consumption results.

[clintonezeh]

*house catches fire*
911: What is your emergency
Me: I over clocked my i9 9980xe with no liquid cooling
911: Say no more

[AstralPhnx]

>Killing hyperthreading on all but your highest end CPU

It's like intel WANT AMD to win

[MacquarieRidge]

Intel is *really* good at competing with their own products.

[ProtoMario]

Ur NoT a GaMeR - You wouldn't understand

- Intel Marketing

[RiskyBRiskyB]

"Here we are again with another refresh of Skylake"
It is the second refresh of Skylake which is a refresh of Broadwell, which is a refresh of Haswell, which is a refresh of Ivy Bridge, which is a a refresh of Sandy Bridge.

[seireiart]

RIP "Hyper-threading" for Core i7
(2009 - 2018)

[TheMrTape]

My i7 920: Hyperthreading
i7 9700k: No Hypertheading

[CoalitionGaming]

Dedicated video about the updated h264 encoder please. You guys have mentioned it repeatedly but nobody has deep dived into it at all yet. Come on.

[shayan-gg]

Removing features and selling same thing at higher price

That sounds a lot like Apple

[iielysiumx]

"How is this for gamers" proceeds to use it in every gaming rig they build for the next year and it becomes the best performing gaming chip for a year or so

[devonsmith]

ryzen is literally half the price WITH a cooler

[cnfuzd]

What math informs you that $579 is 40% more than $300? What numerical system was used?

[Belks]

>No hyperthreading on i7
Intel just commited kerchoouicide

[MinazukiKajishiro]

That ryzen 2700 X is a beast for how much it costs honestly. + You get a free LED cooler? Btch please like i care about 15-20 fps difference on 160 fps range.

[PredCaliber]

Any other 4790k users here who are unsure if they should upgrade or not? :(

[guyfawkes]

from retailers in the EU it's more like 50 percent... I can literally buy 2 2700X's for the price of a i9-9900K o.O Also is Intel binning these chips when sending to big outlets? Every reviewer I've seen EXCEPT for Tomshardware and LTT (HU, Der8auer and others) have seen the 9900K have crap thermals. I also noticed that Toms sample was running at much lower voltages than those described by Hardware Unboxed... Really does make one wonder if Intel made sure to send the best voltage to frequency samples to the largest reviewers...

[euga]

2700X has been 290 for a few weeks...so it is 2x the price

[MichaSennin]

It's crazy to me how i feel about this CPU. I think the 9900k was ahead of its time, for reasons i cant explain. Its still a beast.

[dvdv]

"A few fps here and there"

Never ever do FPS deltas. They have no meaning. That's because FPS is a nonlinear quantity. An FPS delta of 20 means something entirely different if it is between 20 and 40 fps vs. 300 and 320 fps for example. Use SPF or milliseconds instead - these *are* linear quantities.