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Tom’s Hardware
Tom’s Hardware
Technology
Hassam Nasir

Intel's OEM-only Bartlett Lake CPU modded to run on consumer Z790 motherboard beats AMD's Ryzen 9 9900X3D in Cinebench multi-core test — Core 9 273QPE has 12 cores, 24 threads, and hits 5.4GHz

Raptor Lake CPU.

A few days ago, we covered the modding efforts of kryptonfly, a community member who managed to get a Bartlett Lake CPU running on an Asus ZZ90 motherboard. At the time, the Core 9 273QPE used for the experiment successfully booted but didn't go beyond the POST screen. Since then, several users have been hard at work over on the Overclock.net forums, and today, their efforts have finally paid off. Bartlett Lake can not only boot inside Windows now, but it's actually stable enough to run benchmarks.

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