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Intel Core Ultra 7 265K is $299.99 with free Assassin's Creed Shadows game code (releases Feb 14, 2025). On top of the massive drop in the 265K price, they're offering $70 off any Z890 motherboard.
Yes, the 265K is currently a disappointment of a CPU, but only due to the $419 MSRP at launch. If you consider that it beats the $359 Ryzen 9 9900X / $319 i7-14700K in Cinebench / Blender / most productivity and will likely match those CPUs in gaming at 1440P / 4K, then it's a no brainer at $299 (especially if you include the motherboard discount).
I'm also positive that Intel will fix some of the gaming issues going forward, much like they fixed many of the ARC GPU issues over time.
https://www.microcenter
https://www.microcenter
Yes, the 265K is currently a disappointment of a CPU, but only due to the $419 MSRP at launch. If you consider that it beats the $359 Ryzen 9 9900X / $319 i7-14700K in Cinebench / Blender / most productivity and will likely match those CPUs in gaming at 1440P / 4K, then it's a no brainer at $299 (especially if you include the motherboard discount).
I'm also positive that Intel will fix some of the gaming issues going forward, much like they fixed many of the ARC GPU issues over time.
https://www.microcenter
https://www.microcenter
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Intel Core Ultra 7 265K is $299.99 with free Assassin's Creed Shadows game code (releases Feb 14, 2025). On top of the massive drop in the 265K price, they're offering $70 off any Z890 motherboard.
Yes, the 265K is currently a disappointment of a CPU, but only due to the $419 MSRP at launch. If you consider that it beats the $359 Ryzen 9 9900X / $319 i7-14700K in Cinebench / Blender / most productivity and will likely match those CPUs in gaming at 1440P / 4K, then it's a no brainer at $299 (especially if you include the motherboard discount).
I'm also positive that Intel will fix some of the gaming issues going forward, much like they fixed many of the ARC GPU issues over time.
https://www.microcenter
https://www.microcenter
Yes, the 265K is currently a disappointment of a CPU, but only due to the $419 MSRP at launch. If you consider that it beats the $359 Ryzen 9 9900X / $319 i7-14700K in Cinebench / Blender / most productivity and will likely match those CPUs in gaming at 1440P / 4K, then it's a no brainer at $299 (especially if you include the motherboard discount).
I'm also positive that Intel will fix some of the gaming issues going forward, much like they fixed many of the ARC GPU issues over time.
https://www.microcenter
https://www.microcenter
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Edit. Looks like the ultra igpu is significantly better.
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Here's an excellent review from Hardware Unboxed / Techspot on the 265K: https://www.techspot.co
You can see that that the 265K is basically on par in Cinebench multi-core and beats the 14900K in single core, basically the same in Blender as well. It's 29% more power efficient to boot. I'm sure Adobe and gaming fixes will come pretty soon to get those up to snuff (and the CPU's will be about equivalent in gaming at higher resolutions anyway).
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