https://www.newegg.com/tools/combo-builder/4293
Newegg has the Intel Core i7-14700K (20 cores, 8 performance + 12 efficiency) + MSI B760 GAMING PLUS WIFI LGA 1700 (280) DDR5 ATX Motherboard + G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR5 6000 cl36 (PC5 48000) Desktop Memory Model F5-6000J3636F16GX2-RS5K + Ghostrunner 2 game (Intel Gift Game Code) combo available for $504.98. Shipping is free.
Deal instructions:
Go to the newegg intel combo builder page (linked above) and select the Intel Core i7-14700K Desktop Processor, the MSI B760 GAMING PLUS WIFI LGA 1700 (280) DDR5 ATX Motherboard, and the G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Series Model F5-6000J3636F16GX2-RS5K. Then select "add all items to cart", the total will be $504.98. The 14700k should automatically have the $11 promo discount HBD466 applied to it, and will come with the additional item "Intel Gift Game Code - Ghostrunner 2".
Alternatively, you can add the items separately to cart. All items must be "sold and shipped by newegg" in order to apply combo savings. Here's the links to the newegg product pages:
Processor:
https://www.newegg.com/intel-core...6819118466
Motherboard:
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16813144600
Ram:
https://www.newegg.com/g-skill-32...ByNewegg=1
The ghostrunner 2 intel gift game code should appear in cart automatically when you've added the above items, here's the product page, the second image provides information on how to claim the game:
https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16800985128
This is the by far the best deal I've seen for a high end intel cpu bundle that can be shipped (aka. not from microcenter). If you don't live within driving distance of a microcenter, and need a cpu with massive multithreaded performance for productivity, this is an excellent option.
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The 14700k is a 20 core (8 performance + 12 efficiency cores) cpu from intel's current desktop 14th gen raptor lake refresh generation. It has the same architecture as the previous 13th gen cpus, but the 14700k comes with 4 more e cores than the 13700k. The 14700k is only a few percentage points faster than the 13700k in gaming, and depending on the productivity application typically ranges from 3% to 10% faster than the 13700k for heavily multithreaded productivity workloads. The 14700k is moderately faster than non-x3d amd zen 4 cpus in gaming, being a bit less than 10% faster on average in gaming compared to the 7950x. The amd 7800x3d is around 10% faster on average than the 14700k in gaming. The 14700k is an excellent productivity cpu, the 14700k is in most cases less than 10% slower than the 13900k for heavily multithreaded productivity applications. All single chiplet amd cpus (7700x and below) have far worse multithreaded performance than the 14700k. The 7900x is moderately slower than the 14700k in most productivity applications while the 7950x is moderately faster than the 14700k in most productivity applications. That being said, all zen 4 amd cpus enjoy an absolutely massive power efficiency advantage over the 14700k. On the other hand, for certain productivity tasks such as video editing the 14700k has a major advantage with intel quicksync. The 14700k supports the latest version of intel quicksync with two multi-format codec engines. There are two primary downsides to getting a 14th gen intel cpu, massive power draw and the fact that it's on a dead end platform. Intel 14th gen raptor lake refresh is the last cpu generation on the lga 1700 socket, so to upgrade to a newer generation cpu in the future you will need to purchase a new motherboard. The 14700k is a very inefficient cpu that draws an absolutely ludicrous amount of power, only moderately eclipsed by the 13900k and 14900k. Air cooling is technically possible, but the thermal load while running at default power settings (depending on the motherboard vendor) is often high enough that a 360mm aio is generally recommended.
Techspot article with lots of good info on the 14700k: https://www.techspot.co
Pugetsystems intel 14th gen content creation review: https://www.pugetsystem
Gamers nexus reviewing the 14700k, and going off the rails about the transition to 14th gen intel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KKE-7BzB_M
Hardware unboxed revieiwng the 14700k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oALfgs
The MSI B760 GAMING PLUS WIFI motherboard is a lower-midrange lga 1700 board using the current gen lower end b760 chipset. It is very important to note that this means that this motherboard does NOT support overclocking your cpu. That being said, the 14700k runs so hot to begin with that overclocking is pretty pointless. It has many of the common compromises you'd expect with a lower end board (no pcie gen 5 support, only two m.2 slots, only 4 sata ports, cheap realtek audio chip, etc). That being said, so long as their particular use cases don't demand large amounts of io, this board should be sufficient for most users. Pcie gen5 support won't matter for most users a few years at least. It uses the standard 12+1+1 vrm solution msi puts on a bunch of their lower-midrange boards, which should be sufficient for a 14700k that isn't being overclocked. That being said, I would not recommend using this motherboard with the 14700k in a case with poor airflow (though a case with poor airflow paired with a 14700k is a bad idea even with a top end motherboard). The specifications page can be found here: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B...cification
The ram in this combo is something of a disappointment, being the standard cheap 32gb ddr5 6000 cl36 g.skill ripjaws ram that most bundles (including microcenter's) contain. This ram uses samsung memory chips, which are all around worse than the hynix memory chips used in higher end memory, but are better than the micron chips used in very low end ddr5. The biggest downside to using ram with samsung memory chips is the vastly inferior overclocking/manual tuning potential compared to hynix memory. If you'd just be sticking with base xmp settings, then the performance difference with this ram compared to higher end ram will be fairly minimal, especially since intel cpus aren't as sensitive to memory scaling as amd cpus. On the other hand, if you're willing to manually set timings, properly tuned hyinx ram would have a much larger performance delta compared to what you could achieve manually tuning the ram in this bundle. Here's hardware unboxed examining memory scaling on intel 13th gen cpus, note the buildzoid timings with much higher performance are for manually tuned hynix ram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTmbYak
This combo comes with Ghostrunner 2, instructions on how to claim the free game are in the second product image on this page: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16800985128
Overall, if you don't live within driving distance of a microcenter, don't mind being on a dead end platform with an extremely power hungry cpu, and require tremendous multithreaded performance for productivity work, this is a very good deal. The previous microcenter 14700k bundles have offered a moderately better motherboard for the same price (and the 13700k microcenter bundle for $450 would also be a better value), so if you live in range of a microcenter I'd recommend waiting for them to drop prices on their bundles again.
Case: $50-200
SSD/HD: $60-300
Cooler/AIO: $70-300
Extra fans: $30-50
PSU: $120-300
GPU: $500-1500+
Thermal paste: $5-$20
OS: FREE-$200 😃
Case: $50-200
SSD/HD: $60-300
Cooler/AIO: $70-300
Extra fans: $30-50
PSU: $120-300
GPU: $500-1500+
Thermal paste: $5-$20
OS: FREE-$200 😃
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Case: $50-200
SSD/HD: $60-300
Cooler/AIO: $70-300
Extra fans: $30-50
PSU: $120-300
GPU: $500-1500+
Thermal paste: $5-$20
OS: FREE-$200 😃
Cases on decent sales range from $30-$120 for good value, with the $80-$100 range having upper midrange cases that are perfectly suitable for even the most power hungry builds. For example, this recent deal on the corsair 5000d airflow version for $93: https://slickdeals.net/f/17195719-corsair-5000d-airflow-tempered-glass-mid-tower-atx-computer-case-white-93-free-shipping-w-prime
Getting a high end gen 4 2tb ssd costs around $115 on a good sale (and this is after prices have increased by a good margin), 4tb high end gen 4 ssds can be found for ~$230.
A good air cooler capable of doing a decent job of cooling a 14700k, such as the thermalright phantom spirit or thermalright frost spirit cost between $35 and $40. Competent 360mm aios range between $80 to $150.
Depending on the case you purchase and the cooler you install you might not need extra fans at all, but even if you want to stuff your case to the brim with fans you can get a 5 pack of extremely good fans like the 140mm arctic p14 pwm pst for $40.
You can find high end 1200w atx 3.0 powersupplys for around $150 on a good sale, high end 1000w atx 3.0 powersupplys for around $140, lower end but still highly competent 1000w psus at around $110, and high quality 650w to 850w psus between $60 and $100. If you'd be buying a new psu for this bundle, I'd generally recommend getting at least an 850w atx 3.0 psu or a 1000w last gen psu (since you can use a psu for multiple builds across many years, and the price premium compared to lower wattage psus isn't massive). A good example is this recent deal for the 1000w phanteks amp v2 gold for $110: https://slickdeals.net/f/17224807-1000w-phanteks-amp-v2-80-gold-fully-modular-desktop-atx-power-supply-black-110-free-shipping
When it comes to gpus it really depends on what performance tier you're looking at. If you're not a gamer at all you don't need to purchase a gpu, you can just use the 14700k's igpu and the output on the motherboard. If you're only doing low tier gaming at 1080p you can get away with a $190 rx 6600xt. I'll also give a special mention to the $180 (on a good sale) intel arc a750, which while not great for gaming is an excellent value for certain types of content creation such as video editing. For low end 1440p gaming the $300 rx 6700xt is an excellent value. The rx 6800 at $380 or below or the 6800xt at below $450 are also excellent options for upper midrange 1440p gaming, if you can find them in stock. Beyond that point prices tend to get ridiculous, but the main point is that you absolutely don't need more than a $200 gpu for basic gaming, and don't need to purchase a gpu at all if you don't game.
Whatever cooler you purchase will typically come with thermal paste, so there's generally no need to purchase it separately. If you do need to purchase thermal paste, a $5 tube is perfectly sufficient.
Moving on to the OS, you can use many linux distros for absolutely free. You can use a non-activated version of windows for free indefinitely without much issue, the only big annoyances are the watermark, notifications to activate windows, and being locked out of certain settings such as personalization. Microsoft charges an arm and a leg if you purchase a new windows key from them, but if you have a microsoft account you can typically transfer your key from your old computer to your new one. If you don't have a computer with a legitimate windows license you can transfer over, there are plenty of places that sell "gray market" keys for $15 or less. There are also alternative means to activate windows for absolutely free, but I don't condone and won't go into details on those.
Overall, the prices you gave for additional components are wildly inflated. They also don't account for the fact that if people already have a previous computer they can often reuse many of those components.
The 14700k is a 20 core (8 performance + 12 efficiency cores) cpu from intel's current desktop 14th gen raptor lake refresh generation. It has the same architecture as the previous 13th gen cpus, but the 14700k comes with 4 more e cores than the 13700k. The 14700k is only a few percentage points faster than the 13700k in gaming, and depending on the productivity application typically ranges from 3% to 10% faster than the 13700k for heavily multithreaded productivity workloads. The 14700k is moderately faster than non-x3d amd zen 4 cpus in gaming, being a bit less than 10% faster on average in gaming compared to the 7950x. The amd 7800x3d is around 10% faster on average than the 14700k in gaming. The 14700k is an excellent productivity cpu, the 14700k is in most cases less than 10% slower than the 13900k for heavily multithreaded productivity applications. All single chiplet amd cpus (7700x and below) have far worse multithreaded performance than the 14700k. The 7900x is moderately slower than the 14700k in most productivity applications while the 7950x is moderately faster than the 14700k in most productivity applications. That being said, all zen 4 amd cpus enjoy an absolutely massive power efficiency advantage over the 14700k. On the other hand, for certain productivity tasks such as video editing the 14700k has a major advantage with intel quicksync. The 14700k supports the latest version of intel quicksync with two multi-format codec engines. There are two primary downsides to getting a 14th gen intel cpu, massive power draw and the fact that it's on a dead end platform. Intel 14th gen raptor lake refresh is the last cpu generation on the lga 1700 socket, so to upgrade to a newer generation cpu in the future you will need to purchase a new motherboard. The 14700k is a very inefficient cpu that draws an absolutely ludicrous amount of power, only moderately eclipsed by the 13900k and 14900k. Air cooling is technically possible, but the thermal load while running at default power settings (depending on the motherboard vendor) is often high enough that a 360mm aio is generally recommended.
Techspot article with lots of good info on the 14700k: https://www.techspot.co
Pugetsystems intel 14th gen content creation review: https://www.pugetsystem
Gamers nexus reviewing the 14700k, and going off the rails about the transition to 14th gen intel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KKE-7BzB_M
Hardware unboxed revieiwng the 14700k: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0oALfgs
The MSI B760 GAMING PLUS WIFI motherboard is a lower-midrange lga 1700 board using the current gen lower end b760 chipset. It is very important to note that this means that this motherboard does NOT support overclocking your cpu. That being said, the 14700k runs so hot to begin with that overclocking is pretty pointless. It has many of the common compromises you'd expect with a lower end board (no pcie gen 5 support, only two m.2 slots, only 4 sata ports, cheap realtek audio chip, etc). That being said, so long as their particular use cases don't demand large amounts of io, this board should be sufficient for most users. Pcie gen5 support won't matter for most users a few years at least. It uses the standard 12+1+1 vrm solution msi puts on a bunch of their lower-midrange boards, which should be sufficient for a 14700k that isn't being overclocked. That being said, I would not recommend using this motherboard with the 14700k in a case with poor airflow (though a case with poor airflow paired with a 14700k is a bad idea even with a top end motherboard). The specifications page can be found here: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/B...cification
The ram in this combo is something of a disappointment, being the standard cheap 32gb ddr5 6000 cl36 g.skill ripjaws ram that most bundles (including microcenter's) contain. This ram uses samsung memory chips, which are all around worse than the hynix memory chips used in higher end memory, but are better than the micron chips used in very low end ddr5. The biggest downside to using ram with samsung memory chips is the vastly inferior overclocking/manual tuning potential compared to hynix memory. If you'd just be sticking with base xmp settings, then the performance difference with this ram compared to higher end ram will be fairly minimal, especially since intel cpus aren't as sensitive to memory scaling as amd cpus. On the other hand, if you're willing to manually set timings, properly tuned hyinx ram would have a much larger performance delta compared to what you could achieve manually tuning the ram in this bundle. Here's hardware unboxed examining memory scaling on intel 13th gen cpus, note the buildzoid timings with much higher performance are for manually tuned hynix ram: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTmbYak
This combo comes with Ghostrunner 2, instructions on how to claim the free game are in the second product image on this page: https://www.newegg.com/p/N82E16800985128
Overall, if you don't live within driving distance of a microcenter, don't mind being on a dead end platform with an extremely power hungry cpu, and require tremendous multithreaded performance for productivity work, this is a very good deal. The previous microcenter 14700k bundles have offered a moderately better motherboard for the same price (and the 13700k microcenter bundle for $450 would also be a better value), so if you live in range of a microcenter I'd recommend waiting for them to drop prices on their bundles again.
The 14700k has a much higher score than the 7800x3d on every CPU bound benchmark you throw at it and the performance per dollar is nearly double.
For the record, both processors hover around $400, so you aren't gaining anything by going with the 7800. In fact, you're just throwing away significant amounts of performance in CPU bound tasks.
The 14700k isn't "power hungry" compared to the 7800. They differ in TDP by 5 watts 🙄.
I'm also not sure where you get off calling this a "dead end platform", when the 14 series is the latest available processor and only two quarters old. Is it because Intel is slated release the 800 series chipset in 4-6 months? What do you suggest people do, wait until then and pay full price for it?
This deal is available now for a reasonable price and it's the latest generation of processors. In six months time, it won't be the latest anymore and yet the deals on it won't be significantly better than this.
Moreover, while some of the improvements on the 800 series look impressive, as you said, the biggest one (PCIe 5.0) is negligible for even the top end graphics cards.
So what exactly is dead end about buying the absolute newest processor available right now?
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The 14700k has a much higher score than the 7800x3d on every CPU bound benchmark you throw at it and the performance per dollar is nearly double.
For the record, both processors hover around $400, so you aren't gaining anything by going with the 7800. In fact, you're just throwing away significant amounts of performance in CPU bound tasks.
The 14700k isn't "power hungry" compared to the 7800. They differ in TDP by 5 watts 🙄.
I'm also not sure where you get off calling this a "dead end platform", when the 14 series is the latest available processor and only two quarters old. Is it because Intel is slated release the 800 series chipset in 4-6 months? What do you suggest people do, wait until then and pay full price for it?
This deal is available now for a reasonable price and it's the latest generation of processors. In six months time, it won't be the latest anymore and yet the deals on it won't be significantly better than this.
Moreover, while some of the improvements on the 800 series look impressive, as you said, the biggest one (PCIe 5.0) is negligible for even the top end graphics cards.
So what exactly is dead end about buying the absolute newest processor available right now?
Moving on to the synthetic benchmarks, the 14700k is absurdly more powerful than any single chiplet zen 4 cpu (such as the 7700x or 7800x3d) when it comes to multithreaded performance. I directly stated as much in my previous response. That being said, there are many workloads which don't make use of multithreaded performance beyond a certain threshold, or that don't get as much of a benefit as one would expect from e cores. Likewise, certain workloads, such as gaming, benefit far more from other factors such as single threaded performance or cache size. If you're only using your computer for gaming, doing basic office work, and content consumption the additional multithreaded performance of the 14700k is pointless. I 100% agree that the 7800x3d is a poor value for cpu intensive non-gaming tasks, and directly stated that the 7800x3d is a better option for people building a pure gaming machine.
Moving on to power efficiency, you seem to be under multiple grave misconceptions. First off, tdp given by both intel and amd are both arbitrary metrics that don't describe the actual power draw of the cpu but incorporate other variables such as thermals. Tdp literally stands for thermal design power. Intel and amd tdp values are not directly comparable, since they each use their own different arbitrary metrics. The 14700k is more power hungry than any amd cpu, for example, running a full load blender workload, the 14700k draws 284w (at the eps12v rails). With that same workload the 7950x, amd's most power hungry cpu which has meaningfully higher multithreaded performance than the 14700k, draws 262w. The 7800x3d under that same full load draws 86w. The multiple review links I provided in the cpu paragraph of my previous writeup provide plenty of comparisons of power draw across a variety of workloads between the 14700k and amd cpus. I highly recommend going through those reviews and comparing the power draw numbers as well as the efficiency numbers (based off of amount of work done using a given amount of energy). The techspot article provides charts for tons of games showing both average fps and power draw to achieve said fps, you can easily get a general idea of how much additional power the 14700k draws compared to the 7800x3d while gaming (spoiler alert, it's a lot). The gamers nexus review has a multiple sections dedicated to power draw, including directly evaluating power efficiency running blender cycles.
Moving on to calling lga 1700 a dead end platform, it is a simple fact that there's no meaningful upgrade path that doesn't involve replacing your motherboard. If you wanted to be absurdly wasteful you could upgrade to a 14900k for a marginal benefit, but 15th gen and beyond intel cpus will require purchasing a new motherboard. This is in contrast to the amd am5 platform, which amd has committed to supporting for new generations of cpus until at least 2025. That means that if you build an am5 system with a zen 4 cpu now, you are guaranteed to at absolute minimum be able to slot in a next generation zen 5 cpu into your system without replacing any components. This is just the bare minimum, Amd has said that they intend for the am5 platform to have similar longevity to am4, and all current indications are that zen 6 cpus will most likely be released on the am5 platform as well. That means that years down the line, where someone on the intel lga 1700 socket would be forced to upgrade their motherboard in order to get a newer cpu, users on the am5 platform will likely be able to simply slot in a 2 generations newer cpu. Not needing to purchase a new motherboard to upgrade is obviously a significant cost savings.
Also, anyone see a similar deal for motherboard + Ryzen 7900x + 32gb ram combo for around $500?
Yeah I think this deal is dead...welp at least its not $500 anymore but $30 more.
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Really regret not buying the Microcenter bundle in December for $500, this deal here has a weaker mother board that can't overclock the CPU. Time to wait again for a better sale...
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