Intel Core i9-9900K Processor Shortage Hits NewEgg and Amazon

I canceled mine at Newegg. I had a screen shot for credit card price match, but them getting that price still pissed me off.
 
I'm not interested in anything Intel these days... I'm really happy with my 2700X. Are any of you planning on buying the i9-9900K? I'm just wondering if the shortage is because there is a real demand or because they are having problems making them.

Last CPU I bought was the 4770k. No need to even upgrade at this point when it OC's at 4.7 Ghz all day long and it's still not even delided.
 
Super excited for this. Worlds greatest gaming CPU .. hell yeah! I'm sure they will have shortages and tons of demand.
All of my friends only FW Intel.

I remember building a client a 10 Core Intel a few years ago. Was so jealous. Getting 8 cores soon. Only 2 cores away lol.

OMG I know what you mean! I am just a typical young gamer who like to chat on social media, jam out with our band and hang with friends. LOL, This new Intel 9th gen is a must buy! Join me atALLiwantforXMASisa9thgenINTEL.com
Hell yeah dudes!!

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This story would be better with data. Like, how many have been delivered to retailers.
 
I'm not interested in anything Intel these days... I'm really happy with my 2700X. Are any of you planning on buying the i9-9900K? I'm just wondering if the shortage is because there is a real demand or because they are having problems making them.

If you want " Good enough " get the 2700X. If you want the fastest possible gaming chip get the 9900K ( I am in the 2nd category )

Dumb ass sheep jumping on everything Intel pukes out, they cant even get their process right.

Yes this dumb ass wants the fastest gaming CPU at all times so why go with anything else? I even have DDR4-4600 G. Skill RGB memory in my computer. Why? Because its the fastest and I am at a point in my life like a lot of gamers that have good jobs and make good money and can afford to always upgrade to the fastest.

Based on how hot the 9900k is and how little of an overclock you can get out of it even with water I'm guessing the issue with that one is yield. These have to be cherry picked dies to run that close to the edge at "stock" speeds.

You can get 9900K to overclock better by delidding and then lapping down the processor .2mm which I plan on doing. I am on super custom water. I will also be live streaming all this on my Twitch channel "Elmnator".
 
I'm keeping my 8700K because it's my last chip I got from the Intel Retail Edge Program it will be interesting to see how long it lasts. I got so many prizes from the site from 2015-2017 :p but then again I devoted everything to that site which wasn't much of a life.
 
If you want " Good enough " get the 2700X. If you want the fastest possible gaming chip get the 9900K ( I am in the 2nd category )



Yes this dumb ass wants the fastest gaming CPU at all times so why go with anything else? I even have DDR4-4600 G. Skill RGB memory in my computer. Why? Because its the fastest and I am at a point in my life like a lot of gamers that have good jobs and make good money and can afford to always upgrade to the fastest.



You can get 9900K to overclock better by delidding and then lapping down the processor .2mm which I plan on doing. I am on super custom water. I will also be live streaming all this on my Twitch channel "Elmnator".
What is the difference between super custom water and custom water? Special additives? Half beer?
 
A 2x bonus on e-peen.
You should watch his live-streams. He fabricates his own water cooling parts from scratch using tools in his shop. Not everything, but some of it. Then he used stuff like custom fabricated pieces from entrpreneurs trying to break into the business. Elmy 's work is great to watch on Twitch. I find solace in watching a pile of copper pipes become a computer workstation with a complete custom water loop.
 
You should watch his live-streams. He fabricates his own water cooling parts from scratch using tools in his shop. Not everything, but some of it. Then he used stuff like custom fabricated pieces from entrpreneurs trying to break into the business. Elmy 's work is great to watch on Twitch. I find solace in watching a pile of copper pipes become a computer workstation with a complete custom water loop.

So it's more like professionally done custom water? I'll have to check it out. Amazing that people have time to do this stuff.
 
I like my 2700x build as well. Works great, less filling :)

Suck it Intel.


I like AMD, and want to buy their products, but I just can't make it work right now.

All the Ryzen chips only have 24x PCIe lanes, and no matter how I swing it, I can't make my build work with that few lanes.

Threadripper has 64x lanes, which is absolutely nuts, but 16C/32T for a 2950x is complete overkill core wise for anything I'll ever do, and between the motherboad and the CPU it's also a lot of cash.

This CPU, the 9900k only has 16x lanes directly to the CPU, but the chipset adds another 24x lanes. This winds up being usable to me, where Ryzen isn't.

I really wish there were a mainstream Ryzen with more lanes (or a cheaper 2nd gen threadripper with fewer cores)
 
I like AMD, and want to buy their products, but I just can't make it work right now.

All the Ryzen chips only have 24x PCIe lanes, and no matter how I swing it, I can't make my build work with that few lanes.

Threadripper has 64x lanes, which is absolutely nuts, but 16C/32T for a 2950x is complete overkill core wise for anything I'll ever do, and between the motherboad and the CPU it's also a lot of cash.

This CPU, the 9900k only has 16x lanes directly to the CPU, but the chipset adds another 24x lanes. This winds up being usable to me, where Ryzen isn't.

I really wish there were a mainstream Ryzen with more lanes (or a cheaper 2nd gen threadripper with fewer cores)
12 Cores are coming according to stuff I've seen on the net. :)
 
12 Cores are coming according to stuff I've seen on the net. :)

That does not help the problem with PCIe lanes. However in Zen4 I think the problem will no longer be much of an issue with the increased bandwidth per lane provided your new hardware can use PCIe 4.0.
 
That does not help the problem with PCIe lanes. However in Zen4 I think the problem will no longer be much of an issue with the increased bandwidth per lane provided your new hardware can use PCIe 4.0.
I meant ThreadRipper Second Generation 12 Core CPU. :) I saw some guys on Twitter speculating about it the other day. :)
 
That does not help the problem with PCIe lanes. However in Zen4 I think the problem will no longer be much of an issue with the increased bandwidth per lane provided your new hardware can use PCIe 4.0.


Only if they use some sort of splitting or multiplexing to provide more lanes of a lower gen on the motherboard.

Most of the non-GPU cards I use are old server pulls. Great hardware but we are talking gen 1 and gen 2 stuff primarily.

Now, if someone were to make a 1x gen 4 to 4x gen 2 adapter that could sit underneath a half height card in a full height slot and provide full 4x gen 2 bandwidth at minimal overhead and cost, with good reliability, I'd consider that.
 
I'm fine waiting a couple extra days for the fastest consumer cpu available. I'd order an AMD 2700x.. but that's not the fastest cpu. :troll:
 
I have a feeling a 9th Gen isn't going to be much upgrade from my i5-8400 for gaming...
 
I have a feeling a 9th Gen isn't going to be much upgrade from my i5-8400 for gaming...


You are probably right, and it is going to depend on how much you overclock it and how you game.

If you game at high framerates on a high refresh G-Sync or Freesync screen with a large GPU at below 4k resolutions you might see a moderate increase in average framerates. The 9900k has a slightly improved architecture and a 1Ghz higher max turbo clock at stock settings. If you overclock you likely shrink the gap.

You might see more stable framerates with something like this though, as background processes are less likely to interfere with the main game threads and cause any CPU related stutter. The difference will likely be small if noticible at all though, unless you are a streamer and are re-compressing stream data on the fly in the background while gaming.

This CPU is really for people who do stuff like rendering/encoding where you use more cores, and also want to game on the same machine, without any sacrifices in performance.
 
I like AMD, and want to buy their products, but I just can't make it work right now.

All the Ryzen chips only have 24x PCIe lanes, and no matter how I swing it, I can't make my build work with that few lanes.

Threadripper has 64x lanes, which is absolutely nuts, but 16C/32T for a 2950x is complete overkill core wise for anything I'll ever do, and between the motherboad and the CPU it's also a lot of cash.

This CPU, the 9900k only has 16x lanes directly to the CPU, but the chipset adds another 24x lanes. This winds up being usable to me, where Ryzen isn't.

I really wish there were a mainstream Ryzen with more lanes (or a cheaper 2nd gen threadripper with fewer cores)

You can either buy a first gen remainder Threadripper of 12 or 8 cores or wait for the smaller Threadripper 2 chips that are sure to follow. Motherboard cost should be about the same as Intel's higher end HEDT boards have been since Sandy-E / Ivy-E came out.
 
SO many reasons to upgrade from a 4770K...

Maybe, if you game a lot, I don't really see a reason to upgrade when it could be better spent on a GPU for better visual fidelity, but owners who needs extra threading for work or streaming, or even new mobo features, then I definitely see a lot reason to upgrade.
 
Last CPU I bought was the 4770k. No need to even upgrade at this point when it OC's at 4.7 Ghz all day long and it's still not even delided.

4770K? It's good enough for now. No reason to upgrade from it for now...Next year? Maybe...

What is the difference between super custom water and custom water? Special additives? Half beer?

Super custom water has FIVE MOAR LETTERS than that cheap-assed ordinary "custom water". 5 moar! It's obviously not just better, it's super better, you plebe. ;)
 
If you want " Good enough " get the 2700X. If you want the fastest possible gaming chip get the 9900K ( I am in the 2nd category )



Yes this dumb ass wants the fastest gaming CPU at all times so why go with anything else? I even have DDR4-4600 G. Skill RGB memory in my computer. Why? Because its the fastest and I am at a point in my life like a lot of gamers that have good jobs and make good money and can afford to always upgrade to the fastest.



You can get 9900K to overclock better by delidding and then lapping down the processor .2mm which I plan on doing. I am on super custom water. I will also be live streaming all this on my Twitch channel "Elmnator".

Yep you said it, seems you have more money than sense.
 
I don't know.

I think the 9900k has potential.

Yes, it's probably highly binned, yes, it runs hot stock, yes, overclocking margins are razor thin, but it is also the only 8 core chip out there you can buy without sacrificing the per core performance of Intel's top performing quad core chips.

If you want 8 cores, and you don't want to sacrifice per core performance, this is pretty much it. If I were shopping today (which I only half-heartedly am, because my old [email protected] still runs well enough that I have a tough time justifying getting rid of it) it would be between this 9900k, a threadripper or whatever 7nm brings to AMD. It's not an easy choice.

That said, even the best CPU in the world is useless if you can't actually buy it :p

Agree. Still running my old 4790k and no reason to upgrade, AMD will be my next purchase for sure, would love to have a threadripper.
 
SO many reasons to upgrade from a 4770K...

I'm still on an x79 [email protected] on water. Overclocking it to 4.8Ghz was shockling fast when it was new, but that was 7 years ago now.

Thing is, still today, 7 years later it's not embarrassing itself.

Its getting a bit old, but honestly, none of its shortcomings really noticeably impact my performance, yet.

It's got 6C/12T, which while exotic when it was new, still today isn't strictly necessary.

At 4.8Ghz, each core gives me a Cinebench 15 score of 163cb

Code:
Cinebench 15: 1215cb all / 163cb Single
Cinebench 11.5: 13.90cb all / 1.93cb Single

It's not as screaming fast as it was when it was new, but it still doesn't embarrass itself compared to much newer CPU's:

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On the desktop, there is nothing I wish were faster, it does everything just as smoothly as when it was new.

In games, I also have never had a problem, though this may be because I am perpetually GPU limited since I play at 4k/60hz.

That said, after spending many years playing with the fastest CPU's out there, it is starting to really tumble down the list in the last year or two, so its time is coming soon.

Also, some features would be nice.

- x79 was that awkward platform that shipped with PCIe gen3 hardware, but was never validated for gen3 (as the hardware didn't exist to do so at the time). Some hardware detects and connects at gen3, and others doesn't. Nvidia GPU's run at gen2 speeds unless you tell them specifically to run at gen 3 speeds using a registry edit. They warn you this might result in problems, but it hasn't yet in all th eyears I've had gen 3 GPU's.

- m.2 slots and NVME booting would be nice. I mean, I have an Intel 750 NVME PCIe slot SSD, the only one I have ever found with a boot ROM, so I can actually do it, but if I ever want to upgrade to something bigger or faster, I'll have to hack my BIOS to insert m.2 boot modules, which carries some risk, and is a pain in the ass.

- It also runs hot. It's a 32nm hexacore chip with hyperthreading, running at 1.45v and 4.8Ghz (stock base clock 3.2Ghz, stock max turbo 3.8Ghz). This thing is a regular space heater. Nice in the winter, not so much in the summer. I handle that with beefy radiators in my custom water loop, but it would be nicer to be able to turn down the fans more often.

So yeah, I have reasons to upgrade. They aren't urgent though, which gives me time to casually eye the market. Maybe I'll do an i7-9900k. Or maybe I'll hold out for what AMD has coming next. Either way I probably won't make my move until DDR4 prices come down a bit. Current pricing is ridiculous.
 
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