Intel core i9 9900k photographed, new processors are welded

Finally, photographs of processors of the new generation of Intel have appeared. It has been an overclocking group from Hong Kong that has shown the interior of the new Intel Core i9-9900K, and it comes with interesting information. Let's see it.

The new i9-9900K, i7-9700K and i5-9600K will stop using thermal paste between the die and the IHS

We already told you recently that at least the i9-9900K would use welding between die and IHS, instead of the poor quality thermal compound that was used so far. This would mean going back to the Sandy Bridge era and catching up to AMD about it.

In the photograph we see how this high quality gold plated solder (STIM) is used in the i9 processor of the new Coffee Lake-S platform. And what about the rest of the processors in the range? Well, the Chinese portal left this message on its Facebook where they showed the photograph of the i9-9900K in question, and a statement that we liked to hear:

"9600K 9700K 9900K, finally without thermal paste"

For those who are not clear about what we mean by 'soldering' instead of 'thermal paste', the processor has two fundamental components: the IHS, a metal plate that is what we see in the CPU and where its model parts are screen-printed.. Beneath this board is the die, where the other internal components of the CPU are.

In the photo on the left we see the IHS which, when removed, shows the die that appears in the second image. The point is that there needs to be a heat conducting material between die and IHS. Today's AMD processors use the highest quality solder while Intel used a poor quality thermal paste. Many users made the 'delid', that is, removing the IHS and changing the thermal paste for liquid metal of the highest possible quality.

Knowing that the new Intel processors are welded again is great news. They will allow more overclocking and much better temperatures, and they will no longer have to make some users have to carry out the dangerous delid process. Now, it only remains to know if they will be extended to the rest of the Intel processors, and not only to the 9900K, 9700K and 9600K.

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