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
So far I'm not seeing it. Still doesn't mean it won't happen, but look at how long it took for us to rise beyond the quad core for gaming - and even the benefit of 6c over 4c/8t is minimal at best. I would say its better to get a 6 core with potential to grab an extra 100-200 mhz or get similar with less costly cooling requirements and less need for a great chip. The only thing that may skew things in favor of the 8 core is the fact that the 9700K will be soldered. And there is also the price aspect.
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I think some people are overly critical of things at times. This thread is the perfect example. Complaining about how packaging looks, when the actual cost is insignificant when you sell millions of units... sigh...
And how is the post you quoted of mine, overly critical?
and the packaging is friggin awful to be clear,it looks like that educational toy for childern who learn to fit shapes into the right spot.
I wasn't referring to you directly, but the general tone of the thread. If we could come up with some real feedback to provide to Intel on how they could improve things, maybe they'd listen?
And actually, I'm in a great mood. Sun is shining today, and I haven't seen it in while since the temps are below 0c here as of late. You can check news for Calgary ,see the snow that has dumped locally.
As for standing out, yes, absolutely. And its cool to see Intel directly responding to AMD's PR moves as well :)
I don't care about packaging, I'd prefer an OEM brown cardboard box.
I don't care about synthetic benchmarks
I don't care about how many cores you have
I don't care how fast it unzips files or does anything else that I either don't do or do while I'm sleeping
I don't care about how fast it does a series of tasks that requires ay user input in between
I care about how fast it is in apps I use where performance matters (primarily AutoCAD) and how many fps it delivers. By setting a baseline with 8 threads) and setting affinity in Task Manager turning off 1 thread at a time, as of yet, I haven't seen anything observable to the eye, or via fps counter, suffer with just 4 cores.
soccer ball is a truncated icosahedron
Archimedean solid
Comparison of truncated icosahedron and soccer ball [CC BY-SA 4.0
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)], by Aaron Rotenberg, from Wikimedia Commons