Amazon Lists Core i9-9900K For $582.50

[kinggremlin]

lol, 600, a top of the line 1080ti with 11 GB is 800, lol absolute nonsense if anyone buys it.

Get a threadripper... lol, 548 bucks

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIAD7H7D63969&cm_re=threadripper-_-19-113-448-_-Product

It was possible to get a 7820x for under $500 for months. It bottomed out around $450 at most major online retailers before going out of stock. I thought the leaked $1200 PNY 2080ti price was a placeholder, so I certainly could be wrong again, but I don't see Intel charging near $600 for this chip. The 7820x had a $600 MSRP and was released well over a year ago. The 8700K has a $370 MSRP. I can't see Intel adding $230 for 2 more cores based on what their competition is doing unless Intel is really struggling meeting demand and they are intentionally trying to lower demand.

 

[Simon Anderson]

"the new packaging is a welcome addition, particularly when you plunk down $582.50 for a new processor"... said nobody ever

Who welcomes packaging?? "gee this processor is great but what i'd really love is if we chewed through some more of earths resources and generated a bunch more greenhouse gas so i can go 'oooo! pretty!' right before i through the packaging in the bin"

 

[bit_user]

Why a dodecahedron? They wasted a perfectly good opportunity to highlight its 8 cores or 16 threads. I'd have probably gone with an octahedron or perhaps a 16-sided carton.

Heh, if they went with a marketing scheme based on the number of cores, you could put a quad-core CPU in a tetrahedron, 6-core in a cube, 8-core in an octahedron. Oh, and dual-core? Blister pack.

 

[JoBales]

I've been an Intel fan for the last 18 years but the more I read about Ryzen the more I think about using it for my next build. It's good to see competition in the CPU market again.

 

[msroadkill612]

joeblowmynose said "I also don't get the 95w TDP. Now that Intel bases its TDP solely on base frequencies, this thing with 4.7 all core boost, will need probably close to double that in cooling else it will be throttle city and won't perform nearly as expected.

That said, I would like to see some benchmarks on something like 20 minute WPrime run with a relatively inexpensive air cooler, so we can gauge where the performance cutoff will be on the cooling end."

XACTLY. Out of thin air they can overclock an already maxed out ~8700k - same tech, nothing new, but suddenly better specs. Yeah - but what about temps/cooling/throttling.

didnt we see great specs on their fancy laptop chips, which never occur in reality due to throttling?

 

[JackoTJK]

It's a D20. Clearly it's for DnD nerds. So I'm buying 1.

 

[JackoTJK]

It's a D20. Clearly it's for DnD nerds. I'm buying one.

To be fair though I'm still on my 6700k so this is a big jump for me. Anyone with an 8700k thinking about it is just plain nuts.

 

[bit_user]

It's a D20. Clearly it's for DnD nerds. So I'm buying 1.

I guess it's time to turn in your D&D nerd card, cuz it's a D12. Math nerds would call it a dodecahedron, like the article said.

The giveaway is the pentagonal sides. If it were a D20, the sides would be triangles.

Maybe this will help:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platonic_solid

 

[Peter Martin]

hehehehe.... well, if it were my money, I would rather have a threadripper workstation.

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA6ZP6B74983&ignorebbr=1&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleMKP-PC-_-pla-_-Processors+-+Desktops-_-9SIA6ZP6B74983&gclid=CjwKCAjwu5veBRBBEiwAFTqDwW6exkjasvrtMnC68m0Q0-AWfZwTt-Sn66FJH_NtZgwH2-9l9BfwWxoC2joQAvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds