THE CORE ULTRA 9 285K & CORE ULTRA 5 245K

Intel sent both their CPUs inside a nice promotional/marketing box and not in their retail boxes.

This box contained a plexiglass "plaque" with a product picture on one side and two small cardboard boxes in which the CPUs were in.

Taking a look on the other side of the plaque we find the entire Core Ultra 200S line listed (or at least the first 5 models to be released).

Both CPUs were placed inside the typical clamshell clear plastic packages.

As with past Intel CPUs the new Core Ultra 200S don't feature pins on the CPU but on the motherboard socket.

For this review I'll be using the MSI MAG Z890 Tomahawk WiFi model (first one to arrive in the lab) along with the Gainward GeForce RTX 4080 Phantom and the FURY Renegade Limited Edition 48GB DDR5 8000MHz CL36 dual channel kit by Kingston.