Intel Core i9-7900X X-Series 3.3 GHz Ten-Core LGA 2066 Processor

Intel's Core i9-9900K mainstream flagship CPU is a spirited performer, no matter what you task it with. If you don't need the RAM bandwidth or PCI Express lanes of Intel's Core X or AMD's Threadripper platforms, this chip is peak silicon for a new build.

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  Two more cores than previous top Coffee Lake CPU., A flamethrower for multi-threaded applications., 5GHz peak one-core clock for single-threaded apps., Unlocked multiplier.

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  Creates new, costlier price tier above former Core i7 flagship CPUs., Runs hot., No stock cooler.

While the gap between high-core gaming performance and quad-core chips grows wider—and the gap between content creators and gamers grows smaller—the i9-7900X remains an oddly placed chip.

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  The i9-7900X is the most powerful consumer CPU money can buy, High clock speeds out of the box, Improved memory support, Modern complement of IO, Lots of PCIe lanes (with an i9-7900X at least)

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  The i9-7900X costs £900/$1000, AMD's Ryzen offers 75 percent of the performance for well under half the price, The quad-core i7-7740X makes no sense—buy a 7700K instead, Confusing product stack that limits platform features, Power hungry, Requires a £100 physical key to unlock some VROC RAID...

With that we have the best performing desktop processor we have ever tested at ThinkComputers. It pretty much destroys everything out there! This processor can handle all types of workloads and crush them.

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  – Great multicore performance, – Improved singlecore performance, – Best performing desktop processor to date!, – Easy to overclock, – Current LGA2011v3 CPU coolers will work, – X299 platform is great

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  – Staggered released, still 4 Core i9 processors yet to come out, – Prices could change with Ryzen ThreadRipper comes out

Wouldn't it be nice if the world's leading chip giants launched new processor series that worked perfectly and made implicit sense? That's the hope, but having witnessed AMD's Ryzen arrive with teething issues ranging from memory support to hesitant in-game performance, it is frustrating to find...

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  Excellent IPC performance, Outstanding multi-core potential, Plenty of overclocking headroom, Feature-packed X299 platform

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  Software optimisations needed, bang4buck hasn't improved much

Intel's newest processor is here, the Core i9-7900X X-Series Skylake-X CPU. We take a deep dive into it and see what it's all about.

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  Cache, Mesh, and IVR, Big Multi and Single Core Performance Jump, Price, Memory Overclocking and All Cores 4.5GHz

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  Cache, Mesh, and IVR, Big Multi and Single Core Performance Jump, Price, Memory Overclocking and All Cores 4.5GHz, Power and Heat, TIM

The Core i9 7900X isn’t revolutionary. With Its multi-threading prowess would make easy prey of lessor processors and is currently the fastest desktop processor available, at least until 12 core and 14 core variants arrive.

The year 2017 turns out to become the most exciting year for desktop processors since maybe even a decade. AMD released Ryzen, Intel reacted. Then all of the sudden it became apparent that AMD had a hidden high-end desktop processor called Threadripper, and once again Intel needed to adapt.

It's time once more to sum up our results using our famous scatter plots. To spit out this final index, we take the geometric mean of each chip's results in our real-world productivity tests, then plot that number against retail pricing gleaned from Newegg.

The core i9 7900X is the perfect cpu for gaming and multithreaded tasks. Ten cores helps you destroy any project you throw at it and its single thread performance is awesome for gaming. This cpu is the perfect mix of having lots of cores and great gaming performance.

Amazing product. Easy to over clock with EVGA boards. was able to get to 4.5 with the dummy overclock setting and is very stable. Windows will pick it up lower than 4.5 but if you open the task manager and manage the processor under load it will get up to 4.5 and stabllize without any problems.

This is one of the best processors I have ever owned. If you are building your own computer, I highly recommend using an LCU. I am using a Corsair 360mm LCU and I can't get the core temps to rise above 50C. I am not overclocking though.

Had this for about 1.5 months. I was strongly considering the 7940, but it was rarer/harder to find, and about 50% more expensive (which is a lot at this level). This one seemed to have good scores, comparably, so I took the chance. Not disappointed. It runs great, especially overclocked.

Coming from X99 and was skeptical about X299. I decided on this model chip bc the Turbo 3.0 frequency is the same as the 7820x, the 10 core was appealing in itself but also the 44 PCI express lanes. Using on Asus Rampage Extreme VI with 3 M.2 storage devices and dual GPU's.

In 2007, I built a new high-performance system around the i7-980x "Extreme" processor. I've loved it and it has worked hard but was showing its age as Windows and the applications it loads grew hungrier for the attention of the CPU.

I live not too far from Intel and it is an amazing company. Most of their products are of high quality and leaves me sitting on the edge of my seat with anticipation, waiting for the next big thing to release.

Strong product performance, good!

first time I got a great chip and won the silicone lottery, it OC's very nice with low voltage and stays pretty low in temp even under load, water cooling is a must of course

Horrible processor. Do not ever buy Intel. AMD makes processors with more cores for 75% less of the price. 2 cores are dead only after a month of zbrushing 14 hours a day. That should not be a problem. None of them are overheating. I keep a good eye on them.