Intel® Core™ i7-14700K New Gaming Desktop Processor 20 cores (8 P-cores + 12 E-cores) with Integrated Graphics - Unlocked

People hate on this but idc what they say it blows AMD comparable out of the water everyone kept telling me get a 7900x3d so I did and it was okay but this 14700k is no joke. The ryzen sucked for sim racing couldn’t handle a lot of AI the 14700k with all the cores I can run 35-40 cars smoothly high graphics on beam ultra graphics with 18-20 ai cars. It’s truly amazing. YES IT DOES GET HOT. But I upgraded my AIO and now don’t have any issues. Honestly I put it in backwards once when I was redoing some paste had to pry it out bent the pins bent them back and still runs perfectly it’s tough. I don’t seem to have any issues with it I know they said the 14700k had some self deteration issue but this one doesn’t seem to I’ve ran diagnostics every week since I’ve gotten it and it’s still performing at 100 percent . Like I said it does get hot so if you get it DO NOT be cheap with the cooler get something nice. There’s not a single CPU in this price bracket that does close to what this one does it’s an absolute beast

Love the performance, working 100% wit liquid cooling.

This was used in a custom-built system. It is very fast. No problems so far.

This is a beast CPU.I have a small PC case (intended for aesthetics purposes), so I can't use 360-420 mm aio.Had to use 240mm Nucleus. It definitely can handle it. Cons: noise. So basically I would advice to cut L1-L2 to at least 125w, or, in my case, 80w. Performance loss in usual workload is not that significant, but the noise/temperature are low. Standby temp ~40c.Has integrated graphics.Very fast & powerful.

Bought this with slight hesitation after hearing about all the issues. I put this in a new motherboard which had the newest BIOS and microcode fixes. Happy to say it runs great, no overheating and that’s with an air cooler in a nice big well ventilated case. I guess time will tell, it’s only been 6 months so far.

UPDATE: Intel's RMA process is incredibly smooth: go to the website, open a ticket, describe how you tested, upload receipt. Then call customer service to get the ticket acted upon (and receive an RMA number). All working now, and works well.(original review)This CPU is in a linux box - good power supply, decent motherboard, fast memory, good cooling, etc. It is running Intel's stock settings: power limited to 253w for the first 90 seconds, then throttled to 125w thereafter; amps limited to 300; thermal throttle setpoint at 85C (stock would be 100C), etc. Very conservative.It is unstable under load - it is easy to crash the machine. I first encountered this when testing it with mprime (a torture test - prime95 for linux: computing FFTs with AVX would reliably crash it). Wasn't too worried at the time - I don't compute many FFTs, and I was still working through the BIOS (the default BIOS settings seemed designed to fry the CPU). And it was delightfully quick for day to day use.Fast forward a month or two, I've now got the BIOS tuned down to sensibly conservative settings, and I've still found that much of the code that I *do* need to run will also reliably crash it within ten minutes (for example: running "zstd -T0 -17" on a few large files). Even if AVX, hyperthreading, and everything except basic turbo boost is turned off in the BIOS. Even after the CPUs have throttled back to 4500+3800 MHz. Even when the cores are all 15% idle and the hottest core is running at 50 degrees celsius. Even when the entire program fits in cache.It stops crashing when turbo boost is disabled and the maximum speed is limited to 3.5Ghz.Apparently many of these are defective. It doesn't help that most motherboards come with insane default settings (so you don't know whether it is the CPU, the motherboard or the memory unless you can swap out parts).Mine's going to get RMA'd to Intel. Maybe they can find me one that works.

I decided the difference between the i7 and the i9 didn't justify the price difference, considering I was already getting about 1/3 more performance than my 12th generation i9. I wanted plenty of motherboard resources so I also bought the MSI MEG Z790 ACE, 32 GB of Kingston Fury 6400MT/s DDR5 and a 2TB Samsung 990 NVMe drive.Cooling had been a slight issue with the 12th generation i9, even with a 360mm AIO cooler, so I went custom loop. Along the way I found a GPU water cooler on sale and decided to install a lot of cooling. The Thermaltake 900 tower can take two 560mm radiators, but I wanted some disks, so I went for a 560x140 and a 280x140, both 45mm thick and backed by 6 fans. Four more fans feed air into the case and there's till plenty of clear space for more air to be dragged in.So what's the result? The processor runs at 85C worst case, and only two cores at that temperature. The fast DDR5 does make a significant difference. I initially ran it at 6GT/s then turned it up to 6.2 and finally 6.4. The last change is a 3.5% change in DDR5 speed and that gave me a 2.4% increase in system speed. I kept my old RTX3070 which used to run over 80C and now runs at 62C worst case. So despite more performance the system runs a lot cooler.I mostly run X-Plane 12, which runs the GPU and CPU very hard, continuously. After several hours the cooling water reached 36C and the worst core temperature was 85C. The processor just works. No stability issues with the standard settings on the MSI Z690 motherboard. There are three standard memory tuning options for 6.0, 6.2, and 6.4 GT/s and all work. This will do for me for a few years.

This is a great CPU. No issues. It has been running for about 10 months and has had no problems. Runs 24H2 Windows 11 after a very easy install. Gigabyte Aorus Z790 Elite AX ICE, 32 GB Crucial Pro DDR5 6000, 2 TB Crucial T500 gen 4 NVMe SSD, Nvidia graphics and Dell monitor. I am very happy with this system ( until the next one I build of course)