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

I bought this CPU as an incremental upgrade to my i7-12700k , which will go into another more modest build. I really didn't think the i7-14700k would be significantly faster than the i7-12700k, but in some games there's a 10-15 FPS uplift. I don't know if that's the revised P cores doing the work or if it's the extra E-cores. The IMC on the i7-14700k is noticeably better as well. I can run four sticks of DDR5-5600 M/T at 5400 M/T (with tighter timings) which was a pipe dream with the 12700k (which topped at 4800 M/T with the same four sticks of RAM). With that said, it's going to be easier just to buy a two stick kit with the capacity you need instead of dilly-dallying around the BIOS trying to get four sticks of RAM to play nice on LGA 1700. Now is the upgrade worth it if you already have an Alder Lake i7? Probably not, but I was already putting together another mid-range build for someone else and this was an excuse to upgrade. But overall, I'm impressed. This CPU even holds it own again the newer Ultra 7 265k in gaming but will lose out to the higher end AMD X3D CPUs. The downsides here are that this thing has a massive power draw, and needs a beefy cooling solution. I have a 360mm AIO CPU cooler which cools it down nicely (60C-70C in typical gaming loads, topping out in the low 80's when benchmarking) but realistically, you're going to want at least a quality 240mm AIO or a god-tier air cooler. There's also the issue of the 13th and 14th gen CPUs failing prematurely. I have the latest BIOS for my motherboard that in theory should mitigate that problem, and so far I haven't had any issues at all.

These 14700K models work better than I had hoped. Gain confidence that your device is incredibly reliable and fast ready for multitasking.

GREAT BY ALL MEANS. Nothing bad about that processor. It will need a liquid cooler for best performance , but it's a top tier processor.

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.

I guess everyone is right, these things are hot and then some. I went with a off brand AIO, and for the most part I'm good. It does get spicy when I'm rendering or doing some crazy multi tasking. Gaming seems fine, no issues. I play all kinds of games, FPS, MMO's, survival, etc. (Paired with a Gigabyte Gaming 4090 OC, Tforce 64 gigs 6000 M/T DDR5, samsung 990 pro NVME 2 tb x2, no OCing done by me.) I replaced a 5950x, which was having issues for some reason, just felt like it was getting slower and slower, thermal paste and heat were fine on it, never got over 60c with the beefier AIO I had on it. Just took longer and longer to render things. I guess I wore it out! I just think you'll want a good AIO, and/or a solid water cooling solution for this to really get the best out of it. I'm not sure a air cooled option will do you any good, but hey I've been wrong many times, so there might be something that can handle the job. All in all, not bad, but it's not going to give you much performance boost over last gen, matter of fact I found out later 13700k beats it in a lot of tests, blargh! Either way, its fast, and it runs everything great, so I'm happy till the next go around.

This CPU delivers excellent performance. Everything runs fast and smooth, whether for gaming or multitasking. Definitely a great upgrade and I’m very satisfied with it.

High quality and recommend

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.

Perfekter Prozessor, aber ein Hitzkopf.

Excelente CPU si armas tu PC desde 0.

استخدمت المعالج Intel Core i7-14700K تقريبًا من 3 إلى 4 شهور مع تجميعة ألعاب قوية، والتجربة كانت ممتازة جدًا. الإيجابيات: • أداء خرافي في الألعاب والتطبيقات الثقيلة، الفريمات ثابتة حتى على أعلى الإعدادات. • يدعم PCIe 5.0 وDDR5، مما يعطي مرونة كبيرة مع القطع الحديثة. • الحرارة تحت التحكم مع مبرد جيد مثل NZXT Kraken Elite 360، ولاحظت ثبات ممتاز في الأداء. السلبيات: • يستهلك طاقة أكثر من بعض المعالجات الأقل قوة، لكنه طبيعي مع هذه الفئة. الخلاصة: معالج ممتاز لأي شخص يبغى أداء عالي سواء للألعاب أو التطبيقات الثقيلة. لو فيه أكثر من 5 نجوم، كنت أعطيه بدون تردد. تقييم 5 نجوم

Parfait seul point négatif si vous dispose d’une encienne version du bios le processeur n'est pas reconnu il faudrait flashé une cles usb afin d’installer une nouvelle version du bios pour le processeur sois reconnu attention au amateurs avant d’installer le processeur fait fair quelque manipulation pour mon cas je me suis servis de quelque vidéo.

Can game/code/simulate without problems. Doesn't get hotter than 60/70 Celsius with an AIO with most if not all tasks done.