If you're planning on buying Intel's upcoming Core i9-9900K CPU, you won't need to delid it to improve its temperature under heavy load. Intel has taken steps to do that itself by soldering the CPU to the integrated heatspreader (IHS) rather than using a substandard heatpaste which it typically does with more of its mid-range chips. This should mean 9900K overclocking out of the box is rather effective.
Intel's upcoming refresh of its Coffee Lake chips isn't quite the ninth-generation CPUs Intel fans were hoping for, but they should be a little more capable than the eighth-generation predecessors and with the additional cores at the top end, AMD fans aren't the only ones who can enjoy heavy multithreaded performance.
The Core i9-9900K will have eight cores, 16 threads and a base clock of 3.6GHz. It will be able to turbo itself up to 5GHz on up to two cores but might do 5GHz on a few additional cores too if you overclock it. Thanks to the use of solder between the core and the IHS that's infinitely more possible than most Intel chips. VideoCardz confirmed this would be the case with some leaked Intel slides which provide additional information about the upcoming ninth-generation CPUs.
The question remains though, of whether this will be enough to entice enthusiasts towards Intel's typically more expensive CPUs, as AMD, Ryzen and Threadripper have really stolen some thunder in the past six months.
What do you think of Intel's next-generation CPUs?
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