The Intel Comet Lake Core i9-10900K, i7-10700K, i5-10600K CPU Review: Skylake We Go Again

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• Boshum - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link

  Pfft. You are hilarious.

• Spunjji - Tuesday, May 26, 2020 - link

  Maxipad, the latest in the line of Gondalf imitators.

• Adm_SkyWalker - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link

  Once again I find myself debating if I should upgrade. My current i7-6950X has held up better than I thought it would. I guess it's another year or two wait for me.

• Boshum - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link

  I would be good with a beast like that for 5 more years.

• Icehawk - Saturday, May 23, 2020 - link

  I’d wait until a component like mobo dies, that’s what got me to move from a 3770 about a year ago to a 8700 - mobo died and they were pricy and old. Replaced my wife’s i5 from same gen with a 3900X though recently and gave her the intel box. I’m a gamer but I do a lot of encoding so felt AMD offered a better mix and allows me to use my 450W fanless PSU. But aside from encoding speed I barely notice a difference from that 3700.

• Dug - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link

  The problem with all these charts is that they are inconsistent.
  
  There are so many variables that aren't shown that it doesn't make sense to show these.
  
  Most of this has to do with how motherboards handle the cpu's and what their default settings do.
  There can be a 15% swing in AMD motherboard default settings between brands. Not to mention things like pbo on or off, infinity fabric, memory timings, etc.
  
  I don't know about the Intel side. I remember their settings made less difference unless it was just cpu clock speed.

• shady28 - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link

  Agree with the sentiment, but you kinda stacked the deck with that last statement.
  
  Most of the Z490s are now supporting much higher speed RAM (up to DDR4-5000) and even intel 9th gen were good at overclocked RAM, while AMD systems rarely get above 3600Mhz. It shows if you look at something like PCMark 10 where the top 100 systems on almost all of the charts is completely dominated by intel. All of them are overclocked of course, but all of the top AMD systems are also overclocked.
  
  What I would like to see is something along the lines of a i5-10600K vs AMD 3600 vs AMD 3600X, but not using 'all the same components other than mobo and CPU'. Take those 3 chips and build the fastest system you can with them. Use that PCI 4.0 NVMe and GPU on AMD, use that 4800Mhz CAS 18 RAM on the Intel. See what happens.

• mrvco - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link

  Ok, part of me would be curious to see what Intel could (or couldn't) do with an 11th Gen spin of their 14nm process.

• Findecanor - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link

  The "Security" portion of this article is not really comprehensible. I can't guess what the author is thinking. The author needs to write it down in actual words what these things mean.
  
  Security on Intel processors is what is holding me off from buying any Intel CPU for the time being.
  I consider myself pretty knowledgeable about the actual vulnerabilities themselves, and how they work, and how they can be mitigated -- in theory --, but if I have not kept up with every little tidbit of news about security on Intel's processors in particular, that portion of the article tells me absolutely NOTHING.

• quadibloc - Wednesday, May 20, 2020 - link

  These chips are impressive, and for people with a need to build a system today, and a preference for Intel, they are reasonably competitive. So I am favorably impressed, even if AMD would remain my own choice at the moment. I still do believe that in the long run, Intel does have the means to regain leadership, so that in a year or two or five, AMD will be back to being in second place (but in second place like the previous generations of Ryzens, not like the Bulldozer years). I don't know, though, if even Intel will be able to keep up at the process end; even it may have to go fabless after 10nm, which would have significant implications for the industry.