Intel Core i9-12900K + ASUS ROG Strix Z690-E spotted in the wild

Intel's new flagship Alder Lake CPU has been spotted inside of a new unreleased, unannounced ASUS ROG Strix Z690 motherboard.

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The new Intel Core i9-12900K processor was spotted on the PugetBenchmark website, with the Alder Lake-S flagship chip inside of a next-gen Z690 motherboard made by ASUS. The mobo in question is the ASUS ROG Strix Z690-E Gaming Wi-Fi motherboard, which packed a huge 64GB of DDR5-4800 RAM.

PugetBenchmark's own website has in-house reviews of the latest gear on the market, with the Core i9-11900K processor tested when it was released earlier this year in March 2021. The new Core i9-12900K in these very early tests, in early form, is keeping up with the Core i9-11900K processor.

• Read more: Intel's next-gen Alder Lake architecture: everything you need to know

We should expect more performance -- and many more features such as Intel Thread Director, you can read more on that below, with the Alder Lake CPU architecture and new Intel 12th Gen Core CPUs in just a couple months' time.

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The new Intel Core i9-12900K will be the flagship Alder Lake CPU, with 24 threads of power split across 8 Performance cores (8C+8C) and 8 Effiencient cores at up to 5.3GHz on 1-2 core boost and up to 5.0GHz all-core boost.

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