I know the 9900k has been rumored until the cows come home but in reality, it has only been a recent development in the core race that really heated up once AMD dropped RYZEN shortly followed by Threadripper. With that we had the 6 core 8700K the close ancestor to the 9900k in the original Coffee Lake lineup. Now come to today where Intel has moved up to an 8 core part with HT for 16 total threads to take on the top mainstream part from AMD the RYZEN 7 2700X. This is a direct shot across the bow to AMDs lineup now today we are here to judge is it a hit or miss? Now please don’t take this as a doom and gloom article as it is quite the contrary. The thing is, while all manufacturers would love for us to write articles which blow proverbial rainbows out their bums, we do have to keep a bit of levity about ourselves and stay unbiased which is hard at times being an enthusiast and trying not to get caught up in the hype. In all fairness to Intel, I am excited about this chip and even more so that with the launch debuts the return of STIM which is their term for soldered IHS which means no more delidding.



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