Pros: - Great performance
- Readily available
- 5 GHz all cores is attainable without pushing voltage/temps too hard

Cons: - No PCIe 4.0 support, though that only matters for I/O intensive storage workloads

Overall Review: As others have said, this is a cheaper and more readily available alternative to the i9-10900K. Performance gains that the 10900K might have are likely to be imperceptible in the real world. Benchmarks show that this CPU can even outperform the 10900K due to how voltage/temperature throttling is handled.

Thinking about the future, Rocket Lake S (11th Gen CPUs) will be the only upgrade for LGA 1200 platforms, and those are expected to ship with 8 instead of 10 cores. Higher IPC and PCIe 4.0 might be worth it for some workloads, but this is probably the "end of the line" for top-tier Intel CPUs until they can shrink their desktop die below 14 nm.

Overall Review: For 100 mhz slower this works

Pros: Price compared to 10900k , which has been marked up thru the roof.

Overall Review: Great performance at a good price point. Better value than the 10900k for nearly the same specs. No issues so far. Very happy. Def recommend.

Overall Review: Excelent ! i9 10900K but Cheaper :)

Pros: -It was in stock
-It was cheaper than the 10900k
-10 cores and really fast
-Basically performs the way I would expect a 10900k to perform
-And did I mention that it was in stock?

Cons: -It's not the *very* best single core performance money can buy right now

Overall Review: I'm a self-employed mechanical engineer, and I needed to build a new CAD workstation (primarily Solidworks and Fusion 360). 3D modeling is very dependent on single core performance, so Intel was the only logical choice there right now. The 10700k was tempting, but 3D rendering and simulations take advantage of the extra cores, so for a while I was sold on the 10900k. However, with global pandemic supply and demand, the 10850k really made the most sense for the cost (and it was also in stock).

I'm using the Fractal Celsius S36 AIO cooler and MSI MPG Z490 Gaming Edge Wifi motherboard. My default BIOS overclock set the clock speed at 4.9GHz. I might be able to push beyond that with some tuning, but that seems plenty fast for right now. I upgraded from a, i7 4770k in a 7 year old build, and was able to do a 3D rendering in Fusion 360 3.5x faster with this CPU, so I'm pretty happy with my choice.

Pros: great performance

Cons: runs a little hot, best to have a good cooler

Overall Review: price wise much better choice than 10900, with a msi z490 edge , and Noctuas NH-U9S achived 5100MHZ at a max 70c

Pros: -Able to hit 5 Ghz on all cores at reasonable voltage, without a lot of tweaking. Can probably go faster if I take the time to tune it.
-Much more readily available than 10900k, no need to hunt for something that is both in-stock and not price-gouged

Cons: -It *might* not be binned as well as the 10900k, but honestly it's hard to tell. At most it's a 2% difference in clock speed.
-For your use case, the 10700k might be more cost-effective.

Overall Review: For all practical purposes it's a 10900k (maybe slightly worse binning), but it can be had more easily and cheaply. No regrets.

Pros: Upgraded from my i5-7500. The i9-10850k is incredibly fast and from what I can see overclocking is about the same as the i9-10900k. I would have opted for the 10900k but I could not find it anywhere

Cons: Seems to run pretty hot at times.

Overall Review: Great