There’s no cheaper Core i9 PC workstation right now

At just under $600 with free DHL delivery(£488.49/AU$944.36), you will not find a cheaper Intel Core i9 computer than this one, assuming you don’t mind buying a device from mainland China and waiting a few weeks for it to land. In comparison, the cheapest Core i9 CPU we could find retails around $520.

The device, sold by Shenzhen Helor Cloud Computer Store on Aliexpress features the Intel Core i9-9880H. This one-year old processor has eight cores and 16 threads and uses a 14nm lithography. With a base frequency of 2.3GHz and 16MB cache, it has a TDP of 45W and uses an Intel UHD Graphics 630 GPU.

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This workstation/thin client can take up to 64GB DDR4 memory, supports up to three SSD drives and uses a 90W PSU. There’s also plenty of connectors: two video ports, five USB ports (including a Type-C one), a GB Ethernet connector and an audio port. At 15 x 14.6 x 6.65cm, it is compact enough to be carried around with ease.

Note that despite its size, it does have a massive 100mm fan and plenty of slits to allow air to circulate to cool the CPU but also the 8GB memory and the 128GB M.2 SSD. Remember that, like most PCs coming from mainland China, there’s no original Windows 10 OS bundled.