Power for price? Intel i9 Cores
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Ah! The joy of having a high-end gaming PC, the dream of every gamer on the planet. But what would one do with an i9 7980XE processor for your computer? Costing $2,000 USD (RM4,299.50), the i9 core is Intel’s most powerful one to date. But in all contrast, it is more budget wise to buy multiple lower processing cores and hook them onto the motherboard. In terms wise, you still can benchmark your processing speed with multiple cores for less the price of an Intel i9. The upgrade was announced at this year’s E3 but only recently, computer and video game journalists managed to get their hands on one to review it.
With a benchmark processing speed of 6.1 GHz when overclocked, being boasted with 18 cores inside, hardware geeks have found themselves a hard time strapping a cooling system to this monstrosity. Official tests had required using liquid nitrogen to be cooled to -100c to not have your CPU being turned into molten plastic. So it seems that there might be people who are willing to fork out for a better cooling system just to tame this wild beast of a processor down. With a hefty price on the processor, not to mention liquid cooling systems are a pain to own and maintain, it looks like gamers will have to wait for a more better alternative soon.
