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There was some odd suggestion that they might only hyperthread on half the cores, or some other oddity.
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Intel 10th Gen Comet Lake thread
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It could be that some of the 11th gen models have big-little cores where the little core don't support hyperthreading but the big cores do. That's how you can end up with a 8 core/12 thread cpu. it seems Intel might be going that way, perhaps so they can catch up to AMD in battery life and cooling requirements for laptop and desktop - I.e use big-little core CPUs for entry level and non K models and use just big cores with hyperthreading for high end K models
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Plenty of high-end i9 Comet Lake in stock now. 
Intel Core i9-10900K 3.7GHz (Comet Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - OEM @ £539.99 inc VAT
CM8070104282844, Hyper-Threading Technology, 10/20 Cores / Threads, 3.70GHz Clock Speed, 5.3GHz Single Core Max Turbo, 20mb Cache, 125W TDP, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 1 Year Warranty
Only £539.99 inc VAT.
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Intel Core i9-10850K 3.6GHz (Comet Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - OEM @ £428.99 inc VAT
CM8070104608302, Hyper-Threading Technology, 10/20 Cores / Threads, 3.60GHz Clock Speed, 5.2GHz Single Core Max Turbo, 20mb Cache, 125W TDP, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 1 Year Warranty
Only £428.99 inc VAT.
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Intel Core i9-10900K 3.7GHz (Comet Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - OEM @ £539.99 inc VAT
CM8070104282844, Hyper-Threading Technology, 10/20 Cores / Threads, 3.70GHz Clock Speed, 5.3GHz Single Core Max Turbo, 20mb Cache, 125W TDP, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 1 Year Warranty
Only £539.99 inc VAT.
ORDER NOW
Intel Core i9-10850K 3.6GHz (Comet Lake) Socket LGA1200 Processor - OEM @ £428.99 inc VAT
CM8070104608302, Hyper-Threading Technology, 10/20 Cores / Threads, 3.60GHz Clock Speed, 5.2GHz Single Core Max Turbo, 20mb Cache, 125W TDP, Dual Channel DDR4 Controller, 1 Year Warranty
Only £428.99 inc VAT.
ORDER NOW
Not to mention the fact that even if you were interested in the 10900K, an OEM CPU at £540 means you're likely to be able to get an R5 3600 as a stop gap then R9 4xxx 12c24t variant, and have spent less and end up with a superior system for more time. You'd have to be pretty desperate to buy these CPU's now, at least the high end ones.
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10850k are low SP (poor voltage scaling) chips so don’t expect much headroom out of them.
No, you are incorrect. Intel is charging £100 less for 100MHz lower clock.am I correct Intel is charging extra £100 for just 100mhz extra clock between the 10850k and the 10900k, or am I missing something?
why? just don't make sense.
Comet Lake is a joke and nobody cares about it. That's what happened.
Well, 8 Pack probably cares because he can put his name to another garish monstrosity, charge mortgage deposit money for it and take Intel's wee backhander, all under the justification of "I'm an extreme overclocker and you can't overclock AMD". Of course forgetting that he's supposed to sell extreme performance systems and an AMD system at the same money would utterly humiliate Intel.
I find it very hard to get excited by CPUs at the moment - AMD has some solid products but they don't really set the world on fire (unless you are building silly core count workstations or servers) and Intel is overpriced tat that barely moves on from what it has been doing for years.
I find myself more and more tempted to dabble with X79 era Xeon setups for something interesting to do
and see how close I can get to the latest stuff - but not really inclined to spend money on stuff that old now. (EDIT: That and some of the more exotic DDR3, which would have made it interesting, isn't available any more).
I find myself more and more tempted to dabble with X79 era Xeon setups for something interesting to do
and see how close I can get to the latest stuff - but not really inclined to spend money on stuff that old now. (EDIT: That and some of the more exotic DDR3, which would have made it interesting, isn't available any more).
People waiting for the new socket platforms launching next year, at least the ones with a clue are
LGA1700 and AM5 wil launch with DDR5, USB4 and lots of other goodies. Also first new Intel architecture since 2015 - so will be a massive IPC gain over the existing Intel Cometlake CPU's (which are still 2015 Skylake, and still wear the gaming performance crown).
A new 14nm arch?People waiting for the new socket platforms launching next year, at least the ones with a clue are
LGA1700 and AM5 wil launch with DDR5, USB4 and lots of other goodies. Also first new Intel architecture since 2015 - so will be a massive IPC gain over the existing Intel Cometlake CPU's (which are still 2015 Skylake, and still wear the gaming performance crown).
Might actually be 10nm++
Better late than never!.
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So word is that z490 is not selling well at all (not surprised). Expect some price cuts.
Z490 and PCI-4.0 will need popcorn budget also.
Z490 and PCI-4.0 will need popcorn budget also.