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Puget Systems has acquired a sample of the still-not-announced, limited edition Intel Core i9-9990XE processor.
Matt Bach, the company's Senior Labs Technician, praised the processor's performance but noted that
>the chip runs hotter
than the other X-series offerings.
If the Intel Core i9-9900K and the Intel Core i9-9940X had a love child, the Intel Core i9-9990XE would be it. The Intel Core i9-9990XE
>is a Skylake processor,
which means it's manufactured with Intel's 14nm process node. The processor is said to have 14 cores, 28 threads and 19.25MB of L3 cache at its disposal.
According to Puget Systems' specification sheet, the Intel Core i9-9990XE has a 4GHz base clock, 5.1GHz maximum turbo boost clock and 5GHz all-core boost clock.
The processor currently tops the TDP (thermal design power) charts with a
>255W rating.
Matt Bach said via Twitter that the company's
>conventional air coolers weren't able to tame the beast.
However, he said he was able to keep the processor's temperature
>below 90 degrees Celsius
(194 degrees Fahrenheit) under full load with the help of a Corsair H80i
>liquid cooler
armed with a pair of Everflow cooling fans in a push/pull configuration.