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
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65 Comments on Intel Core i9-11900K "Rocket Lake" to Feature i9-9900K-like Fancy Retail Package

#28
Unregistered
Lol so many haters in this thread, blows my mind how butthurt people get over Intel.
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#29
moob
Chrispy_Ugh, more landfill.
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.
I can't speak for anyone else but I keep my hardware boxes for when I inevitably resell (for all internal hardware). I had my 3770k box when I threw that up for sale and I still have my 2500k box that's in another system.
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#30
ThrashZone
Hi,
Guess cyberpunk 2077 design was dumped lol
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#32
Space Lynx
Astronaut
tabascosauzThe 11900K box looks like a modern art masterpiece.
modern art is garbage. give me 16th century Dutch realism any day.
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#33
tabascosauz
lynx29modern art is garbage. give me 16th century Dutch realism any day.
Calling something a "modern art masterpiece" is not a compliment lmao
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#34
15th Warlock
Solid State Soul ( SSS )The packaging of the i9 seems unnecessarily stretched, just like intel's 14nm node
You win sir!:roll:
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#35
xorbe
Pats my 9900KS dodecahedron package ... Yeah I don't see anything fancy here.
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#36
ThrashZone
tabascosauzCalling something a "modern art masterpiece" is not a compliment lmao
Hi,
Indeed surprised the new intel box doesn't look like a Kentucky Fried Chicken box they love the Initials so much :cool:
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#37
tabascosauz
ThrashZoneHi,
Indeed surprised the new intel box doesn't look like a Kentucky Fried Chicken box they love the Initials so much :cool:
Well they have that collab covered already, isn't that why the KFConsole is powered by a NUC Compute Element? :D The extra power draw has to go somewhere, may as well go towards solving world hunger right?
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#38
Gmr_Chick
vanishs14Lol so many haters in this thread, blows my mind how butthurt people get over Intel.
Only one butthurt is you, my dude. We're all having a laugh over a questionable-looking box, here.

Back on topic -- I wonder if this design was made possible by UPS manhandling an original square 11900K box, and Intel ended up liking it so much they decided to make it "special edition"? :D :roll:
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#39
watzupken
Intel will make the box special because they are hoping it will make it more attractive. The moment they figure that it’s not, they will swap it with a card board box. The i9 9900K is an example.
Intel’s competitor is not just AMD, but also their own Alder Lake since it’s expected to launch this year.
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#40
Melvis
CRUSHED! it intel :laugh:
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#41
Zeki
appropriate package
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#42
1d10t
When you only have fewer cores you should at least have a better box than the competitors :D
This reminds me of Lays, I bet there will be 90% air gaming and only 10% content :D
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#43
TumbleGeorge

Open box of Intel i9-11900k. Please color it blue ;)
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#44
Vayra86
ThrashZoneHi,
Indeed surprised the new intel box doesn't look like a Kentucky Fried Chicken box they love the Initials so much :cool:
A bucket does quite match with the heatsink size you need. Maybe they shoukd recycle those buckets and use the budget to include a proper boxed cooler again. I see a win-win here!
vanishs14Lol so many haters in this thread, blows my mind how butthurt people get over Intel.
Dont confuse good fun with hate. Its s common problem these days.
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#45
InVasMani
vanishs14Lol so many haters in this thread, blows my mind how butthurt people get over Intel.
Intel Core4Atom butthurt inside technology...the more you bend over and take it the more you like it.
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#46
TheUn4seen
Oh, they will look so fancy on a landfill. Honest question, do people really care about packaging? Since the law changed a few years ago and original retail package cannot be a requirement for a warranty claim, I don't remember paying any mind to the package. It could be grey cardboard for all I care, I need what's inside.
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#47
Prima.Vera
Shouldn't we see already the box for the i9-12900K already? I mean this is a CPU going to be released after 6 months only.
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#48
InVasMani
TheUn4seenOh, they will look so fancy on a landfill. Honest question, do people really care about packaging? Since the law changed a few years ago and original retail package cannot be a requirement for a warranty claim, I don't remember paying any mind to the package. It could be grey cardboard for all I care, I need what's inside.
Putting a ET Atari cartridge scoured in dirt in that display case would be gloriously SteamPunk.
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#49
AusWolf
Again they spend their R&D money on a fancy box that nobody cares about. What's the point?
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#50
Unregistered
Gmr_ChickOnly one butthurt is you, my dude. We're all having a laugh over a questionable-looking box, here.
:roll:
Ah yes, box humor. Simple things amuse simple people.
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