If you want a ‘golden sample’ of Intel’s Core i9-11900K, then it’ll set you back a rather eye-watering $880 (around £635 or AU$1,130) over in the US.

That’s if you buy the Rocket Lake flagship from Silicon Lottery, the supplier which resells cherry-picked CPUs that are guaranteed to reach certain speeds (known as pre-binned chips). All processors are made to a minimum spec, but some models – if you’re lucky – can run a sizeable chunk faster when you try to overclock them.
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