I hate that most of the market in my country is full of Intel and Nvidia products, rarely AMD.

And my only options are: I9 14900k which is 419$ Ryzen 7 7800x3d which is 580$ Ryzen 7 9800x3d which is ~700$

Is there any other good cpus that I missed? Or should I wait for the new cpus that are coming out. (Am planing to buy 5070 ti if that helps)

Thanks.

(Sorry for my English)

I've been contemplating biting the bullet for a long while going from 13600k to a 14900k but with all of these bad reviews and deterioration I keep turning myself off as I haven't had a single issue with 13600k.

Is it still a bad idea if you consider reliability the most important factor? Im on the latest BIOS patch and I will be reading up on parameters that might need changing in BIOS to ensure more stability.

Just interested to see if many people have run updates and had no issues.

We all know how the 13th and 14th gen high end CPUs have cooling issues, but how bad is it realistically? I've heard from many people that a good 360mm AIO should be enough to cool it, and it has been updates addressing the issues.

And in performance, it's in a pretty good spot. According to TomsHardware, it's the best Intel CPU for gaming, losing only to the X3Ds, but at a much cheaper price. This is also at 1080p, where the CPU is used much more than the GPU. I can pick up the 14900k for around 400 USD right now, as opposed to 7800X3D at around 450-500 and 9800X3D where prices can reach 500+ easily.

In Single Threaded productivity, the 14900k is top 3, losing only to the core Ultras. It even outperforms 9950x, a CPU that costs 580+ USD. 9800X3D is mid level on this list, around 13700k and 14600k, and 7800X3D is outperformed by a 12th gen i5.

In Multi Threaded, 14900k is doing decently well, but gets smoked by the 9950x ($580) and 7950x ($500), both more expensive CPUs, while massively outperforming 7800x3d and 9800x3d.

For gaming/productivity, 14900k feels like the perfect CPU, it's cheaper than all its competitors in gaming AND in productivity. AMD CPUs seem very specialized, with the 7800x3d and 9800x3d being really good for gaming, but terrible for multi thread, and 9950x being really good for productivity, but mediocre for gaming. The closest cpu to 14900k is 9950x, which costs a lot more, and 14900k outperforms it in single thread as well as gaming.

As someone who wants a good CPU for both gaming and productivity, is there any reason I shouldn't get a 14900k? It's the cheapest option, offering a more balanced performance compared to AMDs more expensive options. Yes it's on the now dead LGA 1700 motherboard, but I figure by the time I upgrade again, AM5 will be dead by then too. I guess I could wait for 9950X3D and 9900X3D, but they'll probably cost at least 600+ USD.

I had a bad experience with AMD, I can try again, or call it quits and go with Intel. Is Intel planning on 15th Gen anytime so I can wait? I am not an overclocker. I had an AMD system 2990wx. I built and ran it smooth no issues for 6 years easy. I know the issues Intel is having. No real OCing it, Precision Boost was all. Any straight forward advice and opinions please, I will appreciate it. Thank you in advance! I am trying to have some 4k gaming and a steady workstation for typical office use, nothing with professional video editing, creating, and rendering. I need a good everyday use CPU to handle these tasks with a breeze and mumtitask. The 2990wx.could run all kinds of tabs and porgrams at once, but not to great of a gamer. It was good at gaming for me at first, then I tried upgrading GPU with 9070XT, so I needed to upgrade the whole system because the CPU was sluggish. Now, I am back on step 1.

It took just 3 days from the day I submitted my old processor for the whole RMA process to complete!

What are your SP and VF scores? I think got luckier this time around compared to my 13900KS.

Gonna build my new pc this February . Planning to pair either of them with a 5070 Ti

I would use the PC for Gaming at 1440p and use productivity applications like Blender and Maya (modelling , animation and rigging) and Unreal engine 5 for video game development , Photoshop premier pro for video production and also code stuffs and teach to some students online.

I prefer productivity over gaming and an entire build with 14900k is a lot cheaper than a build with 7950x ( In India ) ... In most gaming and productivity benchmarks 14900k seems to edge out the Ryzen 9 7950x , but it's on a plagued architecture. For the same priced build as the 14900k I can go only with the Ryzen 9 9900x , is that better choice because it tends to perform tad bit worse than the 14900k

Intel claims that the problems with the i9 14900k has been resolved majorly but idk how true that is really

About the upgradability part which is a huge win from amd's side , I don't think I would upgrade it , I might use it for the next 5 years and then build a new one all together when DDR6 has settled in price maybe ....

So I'm in a much confused state and idk to go with which one of the CPUs kindly help me , I'm fine with Intel if those degradation and vmin issues are fixed

I’ve (accidentally) purchased this new 14900k because of a deal I couldn’t let go for €450,- now, I still have my 13700k+FS 140 V3, so thought why not get the Phantom spirit and build a new pc with it.

Never had an i9 in the past, and was really fucking surprised to see idle 50-60c and basically 100c on any stress.

My case is the Corsair 4000x, best I could do is order the H115i Elite Capellix 280mm rad.

Now, all I want is to get the temps down without losing performance, I won’t even mention overclocking with this thing.

Any recommendations are welcome.

system spec:

Asrock Z790 Riptide Wifi (2023) G.skill trident z5 6400 2x 32GB 6400 (able to do 6800 for now) RTX 4090 Asus tuf oc Thermaltake toughpower GF3 1050W

Like some of you, after many years, I wanted to ball out on a new build and spare [few] expenses. Intel i9 14900K, Asus 4080, ROG STRIX Z790-E GAMING Motherboard, 64GB DDR5, 4TB M.2 SSD, etc.

Since I built it, something was funky. Overall I could game with great performance but sometimes I'd crash on starting up games, sometimes I'd go 15 hours without an issue before crashing. But I was getting all sorts of memory, VRAM, etc. error codes (mostly in COD Warzone but in Rocket League, Fortnite, Spiderman, and others too!) but it didn't feel like any of those components had issues.

Skip to 4 months, 25+ hours of research later... I FINALLY FOUND THE ISSUE! I wanted to pass this along for any of you with an i9 14900K and an ASUS Motherboard. By default, most motherboards are way overclocking and frying your 13th/14th gen CPU unless you do the following. What this will do is enforce the motherboard to use Intel's recommended wattage for their own CPUs.

TLDR:

1. Find "ASUS Multicore Enhancement" in BIOS

2. MUST SET to "Disabled - Enforce All Limits"

This will fix all your problems!

Context from video here: https://youtu.be/HIubZYwBfPc?si=uBSOwjORjJAZmA61&t=764