It’s been several years since Intel decided to eliminate bonding between the IHS and the die of their processors for the LGA 1151 platform, for the benefit of using thermal compound, the gossip bases say that limiting the overclocking capacity of these chips and forcing your users to update more frequently. This will change with the introduction of the first Core i9 9900K mainstream processor.
Core i9 9900K will have the IHS soldier to improve temperatures and overclocking.
AMD has behaved very differently from Intel with its Ryzen processors soldered to an IHS, so its heat dissipation is much better than Intel processors, which in turn has caused the users of the latter to criticize.
Techpowerup claims to have received reports that Intel is planning a soldered IHS on at least its Core i9 Whiskey Lake 8-core LGA1151 socket to improve heat dissipation and thus the overclocking limit. This processor will enable the Core i9 9900K 8-core 16-wire to reach an operating frequency between 3.60 and 5.00 GHz and 16 MB L3 cache.
The introduction of the Core i9 extension in the main desktop segment could mean that Intel is creating a new price for this platform that could be above the price of 300-350 Euros, which traditionally had the best Core i7 “K” of previous generations. There are also rumors that the Core i9 9900K could be released on August 1, 2018.
No doubt the return of IHS to Intel processors would be the best news for a long time, even the second after increasing the cores for the LGA 1151 platform.