After what seemed like months of leaks and speculation, Intel officially announced its 9th Generation Core desktop CPU line-up a couple of weeks back, at a lavish event in New York City. Though the upcoming Core X series processors, the beastly 28-core Xeon W-3175X, and the 9th Gen Core i family don’t feature new architectures, all of the parts bring something fresh to the table, whether it be soldered thermal interface material, unlocked multipliers in the case of the Xeon, or updated silicon designs that incorporate more core resources, among other things.

One of the most anticipated and talked about of the new processors is the Core i9-9900K we’ll be showing you here today. Intel has billed the Core i9-9900K as the "best CPU for gaming" yet, thanks to its relatively high clocks and monolithic 8-core / 16-thread design with additional cache...