Intel’s i9 9900K listed for $583 with packaging straight out of Destiny 2

Intel’s i9 9900K has been briefly spotted in the wild over at Amazon. The eight-core processor was listed on the retailer with translucent dodecahedron packaging reminiscent of a Destiny engram - albeit a blue ‘rare’ one. It’s definitely a step up from the usual slim cardboard box Intel usually opt for, but will it be worth a whopping $583? That’s what retail giant Amazon has the eight-core / 16-thread i9 9900K CPU priced at, although that doesn’t line up with previous listings we’ve seen in the last few weeks. Delidding and binning retailer Silicon Lottery listed a boxed i9 9900K for $480, which aligns with pricing we initially expected for Intel’s upcoming i9 processor. If this pricing were true, Intel would be in a rather uncomfortable position against AMD’s Ryzen and Threadripper HEDT chips. Even if this chip were able to offer the best single-threaded and multithreaded performance on the market in one package, that’s an exceptionally tall price tag for potential customers to stomach. It’s also pricing itself way outside of the usual mainstream market’s upper limits.

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