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Intel today led its annual deluge of new consumer desktop processors with a speed demon intended to bliss out overclockers who’ve been stockpiling liquid nitrogen along with toilet paper. The 10-core Core i9-10900K, with its claimed peak single-core frequency of 5.3GHz, tops this year’s 10th-gen range, which is based around Intel’s 14nm Comet Lake-S architecture. The rest of Intel’s new lineup is business as usual, with some welcome but not earth-shattering upgrades. 

Intel adds Turbo Boost Max 3.0 technology, which debuted with the more creative-focused, higher-core-count 10th-gen X series CPUs. It’s adding Thermal…