First up is its 8-core 16-thread Core i9-9900K, which can operate up to 5GHz and has a soldered heat spreader. The CPU has been involved in numerous performance leaks and rumors over the last few ...

The Core i9-9900K, on the other hand, comes as the chip alone, with no CPU cooler in the box. You'll need to add your own, and Intel generally recommends a liquid cooler. Later Ryzen 9 5000 chips ...

And the 9900K will still cost consumers 66% more than its Ryzen competitor. That's before you buy an adequate cooler for the processor, as the 9900K ships without one in the box. Let's do a quick ...

Whatever the case, out of the box ... 9% reduction in the short run test, here we're seeing a 14% reduction in a more realistic rendering workload. That's a pretty big drop off and it means the ...

It wouldn't be Computex if Intel didn't have some sort of geek-friendly CPU reveals. This time around, it's the Core i9-9900KS, a "special edition" upgrade of its flagship 9900K. The biggest ...

After all, take a 14nm++ (+?) CPU, throw on two more cores and crank the clock speed up to 5GHz almost all of the time, and it’s easy to see how the Core i9-9900K would top the charts.