Review on Intel Core i9-11900K 8-Core Processor: Unlocked LGA1200, 5.3 GHz, Intel 500 & Select 400 Series Chipset by Dennis Goozmer

The seller did an excellent job. The product arrived even earlier than expected. The bad news is that I installed it on my previously healthy machine. The reason I upgraded my current i910900k is because I wanted to enable NVME.2 4.0 on my SSD. I already had a drive and a Z590 motherboard so why not? I installed a new i9 11900k and it booted and enabled 4.0 on my NVME. Yeah right! Just a few minutes later I got a watchdog timeout error. (This is caused by the CPU cores not being able to communicate with each other.) I called Intel's tech support, which wasn't entirely helpful. I updated all drivers and it still doesn't work. I noticed my CPU temp was over 100 degrees. Strange because I have the best Nactura CPU cooler they sell. I opted for a liquid CPU cooler and it lowered my CPU temperature to around 85 degrees Celsius. This still didn't fix the timeout errors. I put my old processor back in and everything is fine. I ended up sending the i9 11900k back but at least my i9 10900k is good and cool even at 45% overclock. LAUGH OUT LOUD