Review: Intel’s 9th Gen Core i9 9900K processor hits 5GHz—just at a price

Richard Baguley

Let's be honest here: modern processors aren't exciting. Speed bumps no longer thrill us, and we've become blasi(C) about adding more cores. But we are living in a time when computers casually offer amounts of processing power that would have made previous generations swoon.

It's also a competitive time, primarily with two companies fighting for your silicon spending and giving you great computing bang for your buck. On one side we have Intel, the 800-pound gorilla of the processor world. On the other side, we have AMD, the upstart that occasionally steals the crown by doing something unexpected that changes the rules.

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