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Originally Posted by spcmafia

Exerts from PCmag review on Intel's i9-12900K


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One Gaming Caveat, Though...

And while normally we'd take the rest of this section to talk about all the nuances of the results and what they could mean for Intel's new position in PC gamer's minds, there's just one problem we noted: The Core i9-12900K can't play every game. Italics intentional.
The sheer boldness of that statement may not have caught everyone on the first pass, so let's reiterate: Intel's latest gaming processor, marketed by the company as the "World's Best Gaming Processor," may not play certain games. It's dependent on the digital rights management (DRM) system used by the game to protect its licenses.
The culprit? All that P-core/E-core stuff we mentioned up above. During the course of our testing—which includes two runs of the popular title Assassin's Creed: Valhalla, one in 1080p and the other in 4K—we found the game would either crash halfway through the test run, or simply not boot in at all. We tried to test as many titles as we could ahead of this review, but time was already a factor with the benchmarking suite we had, let alone following behind Intel's late-stage answer about DRM compatibility with a trail of games that may or may not launch on the first go."


Full review below:



https://www.pcmag.com/reviews/intel-core-i9-12900k

That's worrisome