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About $8 more than the cheapest deal from the past but still $40 cheaper than the cheapest price currently. Intel's current higher end CPU issues withstanding the 14700k is still an excellent CPU IMO.
[eBay Plus] Intel Core i7-14700K Processor $588.90 Delivered @ smarthomestoreau eBay
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What do you mean they went too far overclocking them?
There have been reports for a while on the 13th and 14th gen i9 K series parts having stability issues, it came to head recently with Tekken 8 players in Korea getting an out of video memory error, NVIDIA promptly threw intel under the bus, turns out the error was due to a CPU stability issue.
https://www.pcworld.com/article/2307292/pc-maker-offers-a-po…
The problem seems to stem from motherboard manufacturers ignoring intels "guidelines" on power limits, potentially some chips have actually suffered degradation as a result and can no longer run within intel's recommended power limits. Intel also doesn't do anything to dissuade board partners from running whatever crazy power profiles they want as default either, that's the real issue here. Board partners are setting their boards to run out of intels spec by default, you would need to go into BIOS and reconfigure it to run within intels spec, not something that is straight forward either depending on the BIOS.
If anyone is just after a good gaming CPU then the 7800X3D can be had for $559 delivered from Amazon AU at the moment, it's the best gaming CPU going still too.
Hardware unboxed said that the board partners were in intel spec.. intel started blaming board partners after their max overclock degraded CPUs. It was not an issue when intel won benchmarks with those power limits. Now the reviews are out there time to reduce performace 10%
I do think its a bit of both, board partners and Intel going too far. I purchased a 13900KF. My mobo had it's power limits set to 'Auto', but it did allow it to go past Intel standard power limits if it had sufficient thermal overhead. Because these CPUs don't come with coolers, most people are going to be running beefy custom cooling. Very likely allowing the board to push the CPU well past reasonable limits.
Adjusting power limits and undervolting is the preferred method that most people go to. They do undervolt surprisingly well.
For myself, I hard assigned the 253W stock power limit not allowing my mobo to go higher, and I undervolted it by -0.1V, slapped a watercooler on it and it sits at a balmy ~60C now under full load and I have barely seen much, if any, drop in performance in benchmarks before and after. The cooler temperatures curbed much of the thermal throttling it would have had before. While it might not boost as high as it did before without hitting the power limit, the lower temperatures allow it to main a higher average all core frequency making up for any performance loss.
@FuRyZ: And here i am setting my R5 5700X to eco 45w mode in bios to reduce it from 65w Haha :)
Intel is on a whole new power level
my 14700k got 1% performance down from new bios update call "intel Baseline" option but also more cooler
I heard that people who buy 13900k or 14900k will suffer a 10% performance drop.How much cooler are we talking?
in 3dmark test from 82max down to 78max after update bios
Hmm pretty sure I saw an i7 for around $330-ish on here a while back. Not sure why you'd pay 70% more even if it's a bit faster due to newer gen. etc.
Costs ~80% more but ~50 faster multithreaded and ~15% faster in games
Warranty could be needed for this :)
Intel really went way to far factory overclocking these to try and win benchmarks and stay competitive.