Retailer sells cherry-picked Intel Core i9-9900KS chips for $1200

[persimmon]

INCREDIBLY tiny improvement for double the money ? I'll take five , please. I always think that its sons and daughters of very rich people who are spending parents money.. in the end whats $600 to a deca-millionaire.
And in a years time they'll be back to buy even more shazzle. £1600 Gfx card? Diamond encrusted ram $600, helical gold plated case €1500 .. along with their investment in OneCoin

[jim]

I can get it for stocks and financial gambling companies, they need every attosecond advantage they can get. But it's just crazy that the general public think they need (or want, even) this.

Oh well, that's why Intel is still the big boy, there are enough of those idi...people out there



You'd be lucky.

For whom resiliency is also critical and so approximately zero chance they'll be pushing silicon to the edge of stability!

[kalniel]

And they wouldn't settle for just 8 cores.. Intel has a special chip for them already: https://www.anandtech.com/show/14980...-9990xe-review

[Tabbykatze]

For whom resiliency is also critical and so approximately zero chance they'll be pushing silicon to the edge of stability!

Think ICC beg to differ:

https://www.servethehome.com/icc-veg...ed-hft-server/

[mtyson]

der8auer is getting in on the action with his engraved Intel Core i9-9900KS @ 5.3GHz - Advanced Edition processors (AVX offset of -3). Voltage not shared on site but will be detailed in package with the shipped chip, apparently. Price is €999.90 and you get a two year warranty.

[six_tymes]

"Its pricing includes a limited one year warranty that offers a one-time replacement as long as you don't use any gallium (AKA 'liquid metal') or diamond-based thermal interface material to the chip."

Anyone know why these TIMs are being excluded? I thought diamond-based TIM was supposed to be pretty good...

Fairly certain the answer to your question is, because you can't get them totally clean looking ready for re-sell with that type of TIM if you returned.