Una mirada más cercana al paquete minorista Intel Core i9-12900K

Intel ha tenido una pequeña racha de peculiar, paquetes minoristas de primera para sus procesadores de escritorio insignia desde el Core i9-9900K de 9.a generación, which carries on into the 12th Gen with that of the Core i9-12900K. Overclocking.com posted a set of unboxing images. It’s important to note here, that these are images of the retail i9-12900K, and not some special package sent to reviewers.

The package involves a hard paperboard hollow cube with two open sides. You undo a set of pull-tabs that are probably held together by factory seal, to pull out a pair of plastic stands holding what looks like a stack of silicon wafers in place. This decorative plastic canister is painted in gold-chrome and disperses colors like a fabricated wafer does. You open the two halves of this “wafer” to find your processor inside, with some Styrofoam cushioning. A separate compartment in the paperboard housing contains the documentation and a case-badge.

If past trends are anything to go by, this package is likely exclusive to the i9-12900K. The i9-12900KF, which lacks an iGPU, comes in a much simpler thin paperboard box that looks similar to the packages of the i7-12700K, or i5-12600K. The Core i9-12900 (no-K) comes in a slightly bigger box, which contains one of Intel’s new-generation boxed coolers. The Core i9-12900K reportedly opens up to pre-orders on October 27, with general availability slated for November 4.