Let’s pretend for a moment that you’re the sort of person who has a grand to spend on your CPU. Your craving for cores knows no bounds, and you gobble up threads like bowls of digital spaghetti. You’re the kind of person who takes one look at my best gaming CPU list and laughs because chips like Intel’s Core i7-9700K just don’t have the raw speed and power you hunger for. You, my friend, want the X-rated stuff. The XTREME. Well, you’ll be very pleased to hear, then, that not only are Intel releasing a four new Core X-series desktop processors sometime later next month in November, but that the top-end (and oh so memorably named) Intel Core i9-10980XE Extreme Edition also (finally) costs less than a thousand bucks. Rejoice!
