[SOLVED] Intel i9 vs i9 X-Series

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I've been away from following CPUs for a while, what is the major difference between the original Intel i9 CPUs and the Intel i9 X-Series CPUs?

Thank you

 

[siaan312]

The original i9's are X.
the i9 naming scheme started in sky lake-X (7th gen extreme editions)
The first non x i9 is the i9 9900k.

X just stands for extreme edition, which is any cpu that is with the core naming, and goes into the x99 or x299 chipset.

 

[AARRGGHHH]

So the "X" just represents the "top of the line" (sometimes overpriced, imo) extreme edition CPUs. I obviously was not aware of that, thank you. The extreme editions require a different chipset versus the non extreme edition chips?

 

[Matt_ogu812]

From what I understand the "X" all the cores run at 5Ghz in turbo?
Intel's naming charts can be rather confusing.
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/processors/core/x-series.html