Friday, February 19th 2021
Intel Core i9-11900K "Rocket Lake" to Feature i9-9900K-like Fancy Retail Package
Intel's upcoming flagship desktop processor, the Core i9-11900K, is expected to feature a fancy retail package, much like the original Core i9-9900K. VideoCardz just tweeted a teaser shot of what looks like an acrylic retail package of the chip, with its prominent i9 branding, in Intel's favorite shade of blue. Unlike the i9-10900K, which has a mostly paperboard box with a large acrylic window, the i9-11900K package appears to be entirely made of hard plastic, and an unknown geometric shape. We'll know a lot more as we creep toward the mid-March launch of these chips.
Update 10:18 UTC: Here it is, the i9-11900K retail package in all its glory. It's mostly a cuboid, but with numerous trapezoid shapes. The i9-11900KF, however, gets a basic paperboard box sans cooler, while the "locked" i9-11900 has a slightly larger paperboard box that has a boxed cooler.
Sources:
VideoCardz (Twitter), VideoCardz
Update 10:18 UTC: Here it is, the i9-11900K retail package in all its glory. It's mostly a cuboid, but with numerous trapezoid shapes. The i9-11900KF, however, gets a basic paperboard box sans cooler, while the "locked" i9-11900 has a slightly larger paperboard box that has a boxed cooler.
65 Comments on Intel Core i9-11900K "Rocket Lake" to Feature i9-9900K-like Fancy Retail Package
What's wrong with staying with a rectangular prism and instead using more eye-catching colors like gold and silver to denote its status?
The KF and 65W parts look impressively clean and finally a return to the business look of the Sandy/Ivy Bridge box. By comparison the 11900K box looks like a modern art masterpiece :laugh:
Just charge a $20 premium for the "collector's edition" and let people who want to showcase the box on the shelf in their streams pay a small premium. 99.9% of these boxes get discarded.
The AMD FX-series were pathetic CPUs but at least they came in a tin.
#own fabs I’d prefer recycling bin than trash ;)
come on Intel