Intel Core i7-9700 Desktop Processor 8 Cores up to 4.7 GHz LGA1151 300 Series 65W

five years ago an eight-core cpu from intel would easily run you over a thousand dollars and even though the performance was pretty kick-ass the price was a brutal pill to swallow effectively pricing it into the workstation market and leaving us plebs on consumer platforms to scrap over the quad core chips instead however after arguably too long and a kick in the balls from amd we now have gaming focused consumer chips sporting eight physical cores with the now sub 300 i7 9700k being one of the two consumer socket excuse to be released going on geez two and a half years ago however how does this chip hold up in 2021 and are eight physical cores enough to tackle 4k content creation all right so in this video we'll be taking a look at the intel core i7 9700k a follow-up to the immensely popular i7 8700k which brought forth the first spec bump to the consumer i7 line in history while yes 6