Launched just a few weeks ago in early October, the best motherboard for i7 9700k is Intel’s latest entry into the high-end desktop processor market. While the genuinely 8-core 9700K is a serious step up from the quad-core 7700K from a few years back, Intel’s decision to forego hyperthreading and limit the 9700K to the same 8 threads is perplexing at best. In another disappointing turn of events, the 9700K is still built on the same 14nm lithography as even Intel’s i7-6700K from 2015, even while AMD is preparing to launch 7nm-based CPU’s in Q1 of next year. That said, the Core i7-9700K does represent an upgrade from last year’s 8700K: by refining their dated 14nm process even further, Intel has managed to cram 2 more true cores into the 9700K and increased the CPU’s boost clock from 4.7 to 4.9 GHz, all while maintaining last year’s 95W TDP.