Core I9 9900K gets listed on Amazon for $582.50

[Master Disaster]

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Another leak seems to have occurred while we await the launch of the top-end Intel Core 9000 Series (Coffee Lake Refresh) processors. In September we saw a Singaporean retailer leak prices for a quartet of 9000 Series processors, including the top end Intel Core i9-9900K (8 Core / 16 Thread) at SGD666 (approx £370/US$480). The retailer price list was a good early indication of pricing, but now Amazon US has uploaded its product page for the Intel Core i9-9900K which includes pricing, base specifications, and pictures.

It seems as though the listing has since been hidden/removed however

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It appears that the first person to spot the new Amazon.com listing was a Twitter user by the name of Momomo_us. In this picture you can clearly see the processor packaging, and the key tech specs of the product, plus the all-important pricing. The retail listing, which seems to have its title truncated in all the screenshots, has been independently unearthed by Tom's Hardware's Paul Alcorn after "a bit of digging". I've had a nose around the Amazon US site but can't find the product listed at the time of writing - can any HEXUS reader locate it?

Check out the new packaging though, seems like the Threadripper trend is catching on.

https://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/122729-intel-core-i9-9900k-listed-amazon-us-58250/

 

$583 seems like a lot to me, am I wrong or did the 8700K launch at around $450? I guess that packaging must be worth more than it looks like.

[Arika]

Urgh another Rare Engram? where's my Legendary? i've been grinding for hours

[WereCat]

7 minutes ago, OnyxArmos said:

Oh yes I do have a question. Will the i9 9900K not be susceptible to the Spectre / Meltdown exploit since it's a new CPU ?

There will be still vulnerabilities but most of them should be fixed. 

[JediFragger]

Just now, OnyxArmos said:

The thing is, I know that there are Windows 10 updates that have 'patched' the issue but at the cost of CPU performance - I was wondering if the i9 9900K would be exempt from these patches that slow down the CPU?

Not afaik, you'll have to wait for a new architecture for that (this is still CL-based).

[GoldenLag]

dammit, their packaging is squared on anymore. 

[Arika]

4 minutes ago, OnyxArmos said:

I know that there are Windows 10 updates that have 'patched' the issue but at the cost of CPU performance

there is no meaningful impact to regular workloads that a consumer would feel, it is mostly in the server and virtualization space.

[RejZoR]

Still, it sucks to buy the latest and greatest and then not really get what you'd expect because there is some layer of software toothpaste (see what I did here? ) smeared in between...

[WereCat]

1 minute ago, OnyxArmos said:

Yikes that's a shame, how about AMD CPUs?

AMD is fine for the most part. There are some vulnerabilities that need root or physical access in the first place so that's not really a big issue

[MMKing]

So it's an overclocked 7820x with dual channel memory?

[asus killer]

42 minutes ago, Master Disaster said:

$583 seems like a lot to me, am I wrong or did the 8700K launch at around $450? I guess that packaging must be worth more than it looks like.

is it just me or this packaging thing is out of control. Not really something i would buy anyway but i sure would prefer a cheaper plain card box version. 

On the up side it's good business for the useless box making industry. I blame the "youtube unpackers"

[KingCobra484]

13 minutes ago, asus killer said:

is it just me or this packaging thing is out of control. Not really something i would buy anyway but i sure would prefer a cheaper plain card box version. 

On the up side it's good business for the useless box making industry. I blame the "youtube unpackers"

My thoughts exactly, it's all good having a small number of 'founder edition' ones in fancy packaging but hell, a CPU alone could be put in a little clear bag, you don't need such a fancy box. 

[Dylanc1500]

1 hour ago, Master Disaster said:

$583 seems like a lot to me, am I wrong or did the 8700K launch at around $450? I guess that packaging must be worth more than it looks like.

It depended on the retailer. During launch a large amount of retailers took advantage of the demand for the 8700K. There were retailers that were actually selling for Intel's suggested price of $359 though. It'll be the same story with these as well, and it might explain the odd price of $582.20.

57 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Still, it sucks to buy the latest and greatest and then not really get what you'd expect because there is some layer of software toothpaste (see what I did here? ) smeared in between...

There have been leaks that they could be using STIM for the 9900K.

 

48 minutes ago, MMKing said:

So it's an overclocked 7820x with dual channel memory?

Not quite, it is supposedly using the ring-bus still instead of the mesh architecture. Its also yet to be announced if it will have any AVX-512 units.

[Shally]

2 hours ago, Master Disaster said:

 

$583 seems like a lot to me, am I wrong or did the 8700K launch at around $450? I guess that packaging must be worth more than it looks like.

This is a i9 9900k, not an i7 9700k, so the price deference makes sense. Not saying it's justified, but i see where they are going with it

[Taf the Ghost]

2 hours ago, OnyxArmos said:

The thing is, I know that there are Windows 10 updates that have 'patched' the issue but at the cost of CPU performance - I was wondering if the i9 9900K would be exempt from these patches that slow down the CPU?

 

1 hour ago, JediFragger said:

Not afaik, you'll have to wait for a new architecture for that (this is still CL-based).

For Desktop/Consumer, it'll be Icelake that has hardware patches. There are firmware mitigations native to Coffee Lake-R though.

[Taf the Ghost]

Well, at least it's 1/2 of what they wanted for the 6900k. I guess that's an improvement.

[Master Disaster]

10 minutes ago, KendoSapion said:

This is a i9 9900k, not an i7 9700k, so the price deference makes sense. Not saying it's justified, but i see where they are going with it

I understand that but the recommended retail price for the 8700K is $350, I genuinely don't believe a $200 price hike for a product that makes little sense to begin with is justified.

[asus killer]

Things are only expensive when people aren't inclined to pay for it. I may be wrong but it will sell very well.

[19_blackie_73]

So basically a 300$ CPU in a 282$ packaging? Well done Intel

[Princess Luna]

Holy shit this is the ugliest packing I ever seen in my life, am I buying a super high end CPU or a soccer ball?

 

 

[GoldenLag]

2 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Holy shit this is the ugliest packing I ever seen in my life, am I buying a super high end CPU or a soccer ball?

 

 

warning on the box

>place out of reach of children, playgrounds and footballfields

[fastcar123]

4 hours ago, Arika S said:

Urgh another Rare Engram? where's my Legendary? i've been grinding for hours

Lol I'm so glad I'm not the only that instantly thought that

[DildorTheDecent]

That's quite fancy packaging for mainstream plebeians.

[pas008]

and here we go again another leak in another country and people think product prices in other countries are the same with exchange rates lol

 

 

[mynameisjuan]

Just now, pas008 said:

and here we go again another leak in another country and people think product prices in other countries are the same with exchange rates lol

 

 

Nothing new. People are like this every intel release. People pretty much guaranteed the 8700k would be this price also.....

[pas008]

4 minutes ago, mynameisjuan said:

Nothing new. People are like this every intel release. People pretty much guaranteed the 8700k would be this price also.....

i'm sure it will have its premium markup, but the best products usually do

my guess msrp will be 420