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Our research indicates that this deal is $175.97 less (20% savings) than the next best available price of purchasing the bundled items separately from reputable merchants with prices starting from $875.96 at the time of this posting.
Without getting in to minutia. It is good. Just avoid ASRock . You would possibly need to update the BIOS to get it to run best with the cpu but IDK current BIOS details of Gigabyte.
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I came from a 12900K + 13900KS and moved to a 9800X3D and subsequently a 9950X3D. Idle power draw for Intel is definitely undersold. My 13900KS idles 25W which lower than both the 9800X3D and 9950X3D 40W-55W. I repurposed my 12900K for a TrueNAS build, its idle power draw is awesome for that use case.
With that said, the overall cost difference in your power bill shouldn't influence the choice as it's largely negligible. Purchase whatever gets your primary use case settled within your budget, there's a place for Intel when the price is right. AMD has the performance crown so they can charge a premium, Intel is heavily discounting to compete, it's a win for budget builds. The only caveat I would say is avoid 13/14th Gen Intel as the degradation is real, my 13900KS started showing signs of instability just before I finally built my 9950X3D build.
This bundle deal with the freebies doesn't seem to have expired. I just picked it up last night from Newegg for the cpu/mb combo with free 32gb RAM and free 1tb ssd. $699+ tax. Good deal vs the Microcenter bundle that has a different mobo which I'm not a fan of, and no ssd.
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You definitely need a GPU. RTX 4070 or above to be able to play 4K at 60-100 FPS at max. The higher the GPU the better FPS.
Update: 16 x 2 DDR5 32G have gone.
With that said, the overall cost difference in your power bill shouldn't influence the choice as it's largely negligible. Purchase whatever gets your primary use case settled within your budget, there's a place for Intel when the price is right. AMD has the performance crown so they can charge a premium, Intel is heavily discounting to compete, it's a win for budget builds. The only caveat I would say is avoid 13/14th Gen Intel as the degradation is real, my 13900KS started showing signs of instability just before I finally built my 9950X3D build.
^ This person gets it..
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