Core Ultra 9 285K 5.7GHz FCLGA18W

Don't Worry when you watch you tube reviews; half of them take with a pinch of Salt. This Processor works well with intel's Super Boost that pretty much takes care of half the Bios settings, RAM running well CUDIMM @ 8000mts without issues. For Casual Gaming and other tasks fitted with a Crucial T705 its very fast, not had any heat issues or heat related Thermal throttles causing any Stutters, it Works well. High FPS on a 165Hrz 4k Monitor as expected, yes AMD can have an uplift in FPS so it Can be that team RED or Blue divide. Personally Heat, Power and reliability from this Core Ultra 9 is worth a loss of 10/20 fps in games. The Margin of AMD tends to Greater in 1440p. All-rounder PC then this is the Processor to buy it also has NPU, Future AI stuff. Early setups will potentially have issues if not updated to Manufacturer latest BIOS and Micro codes from INTEL. New Builds have these to hand, update the bios from flash drive prior to Windows install. less issues. Intel is releasing a refresh model prior to a new processor and chip set that is going to increase Gaming speeds but this Core 2 Ultra 9 if picked up at the right price should last for years. Half of the review for this are well out of date and Intel has done some wizardry to get it up to speed.

This CPU has greatly increased my productivity, it's speed and power is perfect for both heavy gaming and 3D rendering. I haven't had any stability issues with this CPU, and although anecdotal, neither has my friend with the same chip. Whilst very expensive, it doesn't feel quite as painful to the wallet purely because of how capable it has been. It does however need some beefy cooling. I use a Noctua Nh-u12a chromax cooler and sit at about 36° at idle, and push 65° to 70° under normal gaming usage; under heavy rendering it can reach 80° but it hasn't seemed to have throttled itself to intensely because of it. Pros: Great stability Fantasftic power Wide range of functionality Cons: Pricey Requires good cooling

Productivity first, gaming second. Ignore people who keep comparing this to gaming chips, it's a productivity chip which is very good at gaming too. Nothing compares to it for productivity though.

This chip is very quick without overclocking. I don’t benchmark or anything too strenuous, just play a few games, stream and work from my current build. This CPU is paired with an ASUS Hero Z890, Samsung 9100 PRO, 64GB 6400 CL32-39-39 RAM, and a 5080 Astral and boy does it fly!

The 285K is an extremely fast CPU, excellent for office applications/photo editing etc Don't take any notice of the many reviews that put it down, these are based on gamers who are only interested in FPS in games Runs cool with only a medium sized CPU cooler

Great product. Awesome performance in games, isnt even going over 13% usage.

Arrived with no problems and runs with no problems. Pc is running super fast

Very fast CPU - noticeable improvements in temps and power usage over previous generations.

Een prachtig stijlvol moederboard waar de kwaliteit van afstraalt. Een van de snelste Intel moederborden die nu verkrijgbaar zijn. Heel compleet en de installatie ging pijlsnel de nieuwste drivers zonder probleem snel geïnstalleerd. Het systeem krijgt na een test met mijn Core ultra 9 285K een Passmark rating van 99+ % tot de snelst presterende systemen

Excellent processeur, stable et performant dans les applications de productivité mais aussi en jeux, bien aidé par les derniers microcodes d’Intel et les optimisations des firmware de carte mères. Bien moins energivore que les générations précédentes Raptor Lake. Contrôleur mémoire bien mieux optimisé.

Tod bien hasta el momento

Procesador , espectacular no da ningún problema nada que ver a las generaciones 13 y 14, es ponerlo y a correr , me sorprende también los bajos consumos que tiene y lo fresco que se mantiene, no te voy a engañar si haces overclocking si suben bastante las temperaturas y necesitas una buena refrigeración líquida. Pero en potencia y para jugar va muy bien,

My latest build June 18, 2025 was an all blackout no ARGB workstation to run SolidWorks: Intel Core Ultra 9 285k, MSI MAG Tomahawk Z890E wifi motherboard, G.Skill Flare X5 DDR5 64GB 6000 MT/S, Samsung 990 Pro SSD 1TB M.2, Thermaltake Toughpower GF A3 1050 watts power supply, upHere 8x6mm heat pipes direct contact 280Watt TDP CPU air cooler, Corsair 4000 RS Frame case, Corsair RS 120mm case fan, and PNY Nvidia RTX 2000 ADA 16GB GPU. The first thing I did was to update the BIOS on the mobo. With nothing(no RAM no CPU) on the mobo I inserted a 32GB USB flash drive with the latest BIOS file on it into the BIOS flash USB port, connected the power supply 8-pin and 24-pin cables to the mobo, turned on the power supply and press the BIOS flash button on the mobo, and in about five minutes the BIOS update was done (the LED light went out). Assembled all the parts into the case. I applied a very thin and even layer of thermal paste to both the CPU and the CPU cooler. For air flow I did three 120mm fans intake in the front and one 120mm fan at the rear. This fans arrangement forces cool air to flow across the entire motherboard which cools the RAM, VRM, help CPU air cooler intake and the GPU. I ran Cinebench 2024 and Core Temp for a10-minutes multicore stress test. With all 24 cores running at 100% the temperature range for all cores varied from 73 to 78 with every now and then a couple of cores spiked to 82 on for a few seconds then came back down under 80 degrees. The 285k drew around 205watts during the stress test. Even all six fans (four on the case, two on air cooler) rammed up to 100% the whole system was not noisy at all. I let the system burnt in for 24 hours and not a single hiccup. The CPU was very stable, the temperature was low and the system was very quiet. The Nvidia RTX 2000 ADA 16GB GPU is not for gaming and this system was not intended for gaming but for work station doing CAD type program specifically SolidWorks. I did a similar system back in January this year with the same CPU and mobo and I must say I was and I am impressed by the performance, reliability and stability of the Intel Core Ultra 285K and MSI MAG Tomahawk motherboard. Final thought: In day to day real life working with SolidWorks the 24 cores of the CPU will hardly reach 100% capacity. This is an over-built quiet system with a lot of horsepower to spare and most importantly a stable system for professional work.