Delidding is not for the faint of heart, but Maingear will perform the riskey procedure for you when configuring a system with the Core i9-14900KS.
Intel’s latest flagship processor, the Core i9-14900KS, is a beastly slice of silicon as we discovered in our review. It also needs ample cooling to take full advantage of the binned chip’s full potential. To help with that, boutique builder Maingear is offering a delidded option on some of its desktops when configuring them with Intel’s top consumer processor.Let’s get some baseline specs out of the way, shall we? The Core i9-14900KS is a 24-core/32-thread processor with 8 P-cores clocked up to 6.2GHz, 16 E-cores maxing out at 4.6GHz, and 36MB of L3 cache. As with past ‚Special Edition‘ SKUs in Intel’s lineup, the 14900KS is essentially the cream of the crop that’s been validated to handle a higher power envelope, hence the 200MHz higher top speed compared to the Core i9-14900K/KF.As you might expect, boutique builders are wasting no time deploying new builds based on the Core i9-14900KS. That includes Maingear, which is offering the part in most of its custom builds, including the MG-1 desktop (which earned our Editor’s Choice award a little over a year ago), North (based on Fractal Design’s gorgeous North XL chassis), Rush, Apex Rush, and workstation series.
