Monday, October 1st 2018
Extravagant Intel Core i9-9900K Packaging Pictured
Thought AMD is the only chipmaker that can go over the top with packaging its processors? Intel wants to play this game, too. The company is going all out with differentiating its 8-core/16-thread Core i9-9900K socket LGA1151 processor from the rest of the pack. A big part of this is the retail packaging, pictured below. The box, if you can call it that, is an acrylic dodecahedron, a 12-sided 3D object with pentagonal faces. The front face has prominent "Core i9" branding, and marking that confirms that Intel will refer to "Coffee Lake-Refresh" as the 9th generation Core processor family. At this point, we don't know if this voluminous box packs a cooler besides the chip, but the possibility is rather slim. The Core i9-9900K is an 8-core/16-thread socket LGA1151 processor based on the 14 nm++ "Coffee Lake-Refresh" silicon. It is clocked at 3.60 GHz, with a staggering 5.00 GHz maximum Turbo Boost frequency.
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99 Comments on Extravagant Intel Core i9-9900K Packaging Pictured
I mean you still think Nascar is "driving" or a racing sport... :laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:
On topic now,
For that price, is that package containing liquid cooling cooler and pump? and some collectible too?
Also, many people in this thread seem to be confused regarding the target audience of this CPU, as per usual.
- Dark rock 4 pro
8700K emperor? :laugh::roll: that one is also 100/200$ higher than a 2600X/2700X for me ... not worth it for a few fps difference (%'age show wider gap but the true difference is what ... 5-10 fps ... )
5GHZ on 1 core boost ...
and getting less but not much more less is not an issue.
Ryzen did shake up Intel but people still think there is an abyss in IPC between them (oh well ... waiting Ryzen 2 then )
Just as I expected, this will cost around $760-$800 Australian which is basically double the price of the 2700X which is no where near going to be double the performance.
So, in EU its going to be 650€+margin+stock shortages....and we have 1000€ S1151 CPU! Nicely done!
And where are folks who claimed “competition is guuuud! It will lower da prices!”?
And before we start on what's what... Football in Europe alone is pushing 22 billion in revenue yearly, Rugby across the entire world does just over 2.3 billion;)
Oh, and Europe has the largest share in both :D
Anyway, back to Intel's ugly soccer ball.
The proof is that it's already possible to find brand new Vega cards @ MSRP prices.
Were it not for the very expensive HBM RAM, i'm sure the MSRP would be much lower. nVidia's cards that also use HBM also cost a lot more so the extra HBM price is more diluted in those cases than in Vega's case.
That said, the box is actually quite ugly with those colors: perhaps with different coloring it could be more pleasing.
Still, unless it also includes a cooler, it's way too expensive for the extra performance it's supposed to provide (no reviews yet) and even then it depends on the quality of the cooler: if it's like old Intel stock coolers, it's nowhere near enough to justify the difference in price, IMO.
With the Threadripper 2 box, i still don't care about the box itself but, unlike with I9-9900K's approach, it's actually quite pleasing to the eye, IMHO.
Tell me,how many ryzen users actually need a 16 thread productivity cpu and how many just count thread per dollar ratio ? games use more threads, but people act as if single core performance was going away as a contributing factor. most of you need to learn the term equivalency. the fact that a game can spread the load across 16 threads does not mean it's equivalent to a fast hexacore at 70% load.
until prices for intel went nuts, AMD had nothing on 8600k, unless you needed 12/16 threads.
Edit: Just to recap, anyone buying a 9900k strictly for gaming is wasting their money but that is their prerogative. Therefore, someone buying a 9900k probably isn't running a 1440 or 1080 hi-refresh. So alas, they are probably running a monitor focused on color reproduction which means it is probably 60-75hz.