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Intel Core I9-9990XE: Up to 5.0 GHz, Auction Only

by tomstokes on 1/14/19, 10:18 PM with 86 comments

  • by jandrese on 1/15/19, 2:47 AM

    What this says to me is don't bother trying to super overclock a i9-9940X, Intel has already skimmed off the cream from that chip run.

    It seems kind of scummy, but I guess otherwise your rare stable overclock chip might end up in some boring business server where it will always run at stock clocks. I do note that Intel still wants nothing to do with overclocked chips in their warranty department, even when they did the overclocking themselves.

  • by blattimwind on 1/15/19, 3:07 AM

    Also notable for a huge increase in TDP from the next-slower model (255 W vs 165 W) - and it has four fewer cores.

    > Other details about the chip that we have learned include that it will have a listed TDP of 255W, which means the peak power will be higher. Motherboard vendors will have to support 420 amps on the power delivery for the chip (which at 1.3 volts would be 546 watts), and up to 30 amps per core.

  • by tareqak on 1/15/19, 1:29 AM

    Quote from the end: "perhaps importantly, there is no warranty from Intel. This means that system builders will not be able to recoup costs on dead silicon, but they might give their own warranty to end users."

  • by ec109685 on 1/15/19, 7:41 AM

    This article helps with understanding how the binning process works: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_binning

    I wonder though how anandtech esitmates that only 100’s of these chips will be produced.

  • by walrus01 on 1/15/19, 8:28 AM

    255W TDP for a single socket, holy shit, that pretty much demands a 280mm radiator size water cooling loop setup (2 x 140mm fans).

  • by noahl on 1/15/19, 2:47 PM

    Who needs these chips? I'm honestly curious. I've never worked on something that needed as much single-thread performance as possible and couldn't be parallelized; I'd love to know what industry will use them (and what industry would buy a small number of chips at auction prices).

  • by jerkstate on 1/15/19, 12:42 AM

    Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these!

  • by Latteland on 1/15/19, 5:27 AM

    The Intel i9-9999.999999 is what I am going to wait for. Until I can get my hands on it I will get along with a thread ripper v3.

  • by zozbot123 on 1/15/19, 2:26 AM

    Meh. I'm holding out for the i9-9999.999Xtreme