Review on 🚀 Intel Core i9-9900K Octa-Core Processor | 3.60 GHz | 8 GT/s DMI | 5 GHz Overclocking Speed | 14 nm by Adi Agung ᠌

Review of Core i9-9900KF Knowing that the stone is very hot, I was not completely sure that the old cooling system (Zalman cnps10x performa + (with an additional 2nd fan) + MX-4 thermal grease) will cope with the cooling of this processor. Therefore, after installing the processor, I decided to limit the TDP in the BIOS and check the temperature indicators in the stress test, and if the above does not help, then turn off Hyper Treading and Turbo Boost before purchasing more powerful cooling. To begin with, I manually fixed the value at 95W (this indicator is declared by the manufacturer for this processor). After loading Windows, ran a full stress test in Aida64. The temperature of the cores under load was from 65 to 70 degrees, the frequencies in Turbo Boost were 4-4.1 GHz, which at the moment suits me perfectly. Accordingly, Hyper Treading and Turbo Boost did not need to be disabled. As it becomes possible to replace the cooling system with a more efficient one, it will be possible to remove the TDP limit. In general, the processor was more than liked, it has a great potential for the future + there is the possibility of overclocking. March 2022 : Replaced cooling with Be quit! Dark Rock Pro 4 removed all TDP restrictions in the BIOS, now the processor runs at full frequencies of 4.7 GHz. With the new cooling during the AIDA64 stress test (CPU + FPU, as well as FPU only), the temperatures at default settings in the BIOS went to 98 degrees, which is at the limit of the critical temperature of the processor. After reading the forums, as well as reviews about the processor and cooler, Dark Rock Pro 4 decided to try to manually limit the voltage on the processor to 1.3 volts. As a result of the above stress tests in AIDA64, the processor passes, the temperature does not exceed 77 degrees. Everything works stably. As a conclusion, motherboards from Gigabyte can overestimate the voltage on the processor, as a result of which the processor temperatures can go beyond the limit. I hope this information will be useful to someone.