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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Ultra 5 245K review: gaming losses, content creation wins


The Digital Foundry CPU review of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K and Ultra 5 245K, with the test rig, content creation benchmarks and much more.

Lunar Lake arrived to generally positive reviews, with excellent power efficiency, AI hardware support and reasonable performance, so can the new Core Ultra 200S desktop chips pull off the same trick? MSI and Asus have both provided high-end boards for testing, which we'll cover briefly, but the main thing to know is that existing LGA 1700 coolers are compatible with the new motherboards, they feature more PCIe bandwidth and support memory overclocking up to DDR5-9200. | Image credit: Digital Foundry The MSI MEG Z890 Ace has a fetching black-and-gold colour scheme along with toolfree NVMe slots, impressive VRMs and prodigious I/O - including 10-gig networking.

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