Core i9-10850K Desktop Processor - 10 Cores up to 5.2 GHz Unlocked LGA1200 - Intel 400 Series chipset 125W

After waiting for some months for 10900K to be available, I was happy to see that 10850K was made available. Clocks 100 MHz lower across the board vs 10900k, miles cheaper and actually available. With also BestBuy's price match, it was a a simple decision. Performance = Super. Haven't tried OC, most likely it will stay stock for a while. Paired up with 2 x 1080TI with 128GB memory! Awesome.

Mine does 5GHz no sweat. I mostly use the PC for gaming so this suits me perfectly. Go for this instead of the 10900k and save a few bucks.

Paired with a cooler this thing clocks very cool, and runs snappy. Coming from the 7700k, running a 3080 Suprim X, and running benchmark test, it finally seemed that my cpu was bottlenecking my GPU causing problems from what I was expecting. After upgrading to the 10850k and running the benchmark without clocking at all, performance was night and day almost marked 10k higher. Very good buy. I paid $399 for the chip, and compared to other comparable chips these days, it’s well worth the investment.

I wanted an AMD 5000 processor but no availability anywhere so I turned to Intel and they provided a 10 core 20 thread beast for less than AMDs 8 core chip. Not bad. It runs really hot though so make sure you have supple cooling. Currently has an all core overclock of 5Ghz @ 1.28 volts.

Specs: Intel I9-10850k MSI Z490 Wifi Motherboard Corsair 32gb - 3600 MHz Ram MSI 240mm Water Cooler MSI Fans: 4 total (3 in front and 1 in rear) 2TB Crucial M.2 NVME 1TB Samsung EVO SSD MSI Nvidia graphics card RTX 3070 OCx3 MSI Case - Sekira 100R Monitor: Samsung G7 1440p - 240hz with Gsync Headset Logitech wireless G733 white Logitech G600 mouse, Pro keyboard, and the gaming board Xbox controller - game pass Windows 10 Home

I have installed this processor in many different systems each configured slightly differently. It has stood up against a max over clocked system and a system that is just slightly pushing its bounds. Just remember to use a proper cooling system with is or you will have issues, a normal cooling fan will not keep this processor cool is you are going to push it even a little.

i dont do a lot of processes so multiple cores arent a huge deal for me. this works on my pc, i havent had any issues. probably never going to overclock and i didnt want to wait for amd 5000 series stock or the 11th gen chips. stays cool with my 360mm AIO cooler and havent crashed for any unknown reason. its only 100mhz less than the 10900k which is less likely to be in stock.

Make sure your motherboard can handle this CPU as it requires a lot of power. Also, make sure your CPU cooler is up to grade I had an NZXT x64 watercooler and it still would hit 87 celsius while gaming which a little too hot for my taste as it did not leave any headroom for overclocking. The motherboard was an Asus Z490m Gaming Wifi board and it was not able to keep a consistent voltage to keep stock boost clock which is the point of getting this CPU over a locked one.