Coffee Lake Thread

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https://www.extremetech.com/computing/28...ing-prices

That was the case on October 26. But as of Friday, November 9, the Core i9-9900K is finally available — at price points that kill our original recommendations, elasticity or not. As of this writing, the CPU is listed for $950 at Newegg and a minimum of $800 at Amazon. Any CPU cooler you’d purchase for it goes on top of the base price.
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It’s one thing to say the Core i9-9900K is still a good chip at $580 as opposed to $480 and something altogether different to proclaim it as a leader when it slams into the Threadripper 2950X at $900. Between the Threadripper 2950X and the Core i9-9900K, Threadripper wins our nod. For those of you who may stumble on this story while the chip’s price is fluctuating, our guidance is this: At MSRP to +$100 (call it $480 – $600), the Core i9-9900K makes a solid argument for itself, provided you’re either determined to buy the absolute fastest chip on the market in its price class regardless of cost or are locked into Intel’s ecosystem. Above $600, that argument starts to look dicey, with 12-core Threadripper parts (not tested above) offering competition of their own. At $750+, the Threadripper 2950X is going to offer better absolute performance than either Intel solution in the vast majority of cases.