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The Core i9-9900KS is a special-edition 8-core, 8-thread desktop CPU for Intel's LGA 1151 platform. Its defining trait is an all-core turbo of 5.0 GHz, higher than the standard i9-9900K, which makes it one of the fastest gaming chips of its generation. It has no integrated graphics and no bundled cooler, so it needs a discrete GPU and a strong aftermarket cooler. Against AMD's Ryzen 3000 rivals it wins on high-refresh gaming but loses on multithreaded work because it has no simultaneous multithreading and only 8 threads.
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Lowest price we've seen: $319.65 on Nov 12 at Newegg. Tracked across 1 store since Nov 12.
Reviewers rate the i9-9900KS as one of the best gaming CPUs of its generation, praising its 5.0 GHz all-core clock. They criticise its power draw, heat and the lack of hyper-threading, which leaves it behind AMD's Ryzen chips in heavy multithreaded work.
The Intel Core i9-9900KS is a desktop processor in the Core i9 series. It has 8 cores and 8 threads, a 4.0 GHz clock speed and 16 MB of L3 cache.
It is built on a 14 nm process and fits Intel Socket 1151. It has no integrated GPU, so it needs a separate graphics card. It does not include a fan and is not a boxed version.
