My other computer is a 15 inch 2015 Macbook Pro with a 2 gb radeon pro graphix card and 16 gb of Ram, and this new processor and its built in GPU is faster at everything even before I installed the 8gb NVidia graphics card. That says it all to me.

Hated Intel's dodecahedronic plastic packaging. I could not open it other than by smashing it. What can one say about a CPU Either it works or it does not. Mine works. Others have benchmarked this so I am not going to do so. I was never into overclocking and I did not do so this time.

Cant wait to get my one, upgrading from a I7 7700k very underwhelming and crap overclocker... hoping this one will be better!!!

Sold my seperate streaming pc to buy this and turn my 7700k gaming pc into both. Can stream gameplay 60fps 1080p no issues even on demanding fps like apex legends – whilst playing at a constant 120–144fps (Paired with 1080ti)

There's no denying it, the Core i9 9900K is a little gem. It ticks all the right boxes in performance both on the threaded application and gaming end. It has hyper-threading with sixteen threads and then the very high turbo bins to go along with that.

U pdate: The Intel Core i9-9900K has seen a massive price cut since its original release, dropping from £600 to as little as £485. Having recently reviewed the AMD Ryzen 9 3900X , we believe the new price for the Intel chip makes it far more competitive and the best option for premium gaming, and so...

Ultra-speedy for video rendering and editing; Best clock speeds of all the consumer CPUs; Price cut sees improved value

Not a huge gaming upgrade from previous generation; Requires powerful cooler to prevent overheating; Not much room for overclocking

The Intel Core i9-9900K is an absolute powerhouse for video rendering and Photoshop at this price. If you're a power-crazy media professional this is the processor to plump for. But for gamers? You can find much better value alternatives.

Ultra-speedy for video rendering and editing; Best clock speeds of all the consumer CPUs; Price cut sees improved value;

Not a huge gaming upgrade from previous generation; Requires powerful cooler to prevent overheating; Not much room for overclocking;

As Intel's first-ever mainstream Core i9 chip, this processor comes equipped with eight-cores, 16-threads and the ability to boost up to a maximum 5.0GHz clock speed. All told, this new octa-core processor not only closes the gap with AMD's best processor, but runs past it.

Dominating hyper-threading performance; Runs significantly cooler; Tight energy consumption

Expensive; Little to no improvement for gaming

This is a Great CPU, people say you don't need an I9 9900K for gaming but I plan on using this for at least 10 years. yes you can buy something cheaper like an I7 but you will be upgrading earlier than having a I9 9900k. I bought it for the long run and I would recommend the same for others.

On Gigabyte Z390 Master this CPU can go up to 87 degree on 4.8GHz while stabilising video in Adobe Premiere, cooled by Corsair H115i Pro. On 5GHz it was ok for most of the time, even games were ok, but for video editing on 5GHz it was throttling. I switched from 8700K which is much better value.