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Intel i5-14600K CPU + GIGABYTE B760M GAMING PLUS WIFI MB + 32GB (2 x 16GB) Patriot Viper Steel RAM + 1TB Team Group NVMe SSD & 2 Games (PCDD) for
$289.98.
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Note: RAM, SSD and Game Bundle automatically added to cart
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Eragorn for posting this deal.
Bundle Includes:
- Intel Core i5-14600K - Core i5 14th Gen 14-Core (6P+8E) LGA 1700 125W Intel UHD Graphics 770 Processor - Boxed - BX8071514600K
- GIGABYTE B760M GAMING PLUS WIFI DDR4 LGA 1700 Intel B760 M-ATX Motherboard with DDR4, 2* M.2, PCIe 4.0, Front USB 3.2 Gen 1 Type-C, WiFi 6 GbE LAN, Q-Flash Plus, PCIe EZ-Latch
- Team Group MP44L M.2 2280 1TB PCIe 4.0 x4 with NVMe 1.4 TLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) TM8FPK001T0C101
- Intel CPU Spring Bundle - Civilization VII & Dying Light: The Beast
- Patriot Viper Steel 32GB (2 x 16GB) 288-Pin PC RAM DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600) Desktop Memory Model PVS432G320C6K
- DDR4 3200 (PC4 25600)
- Timing 16-20-20-40
- CAS Latency CL16
- Voltage 1.35V
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When using ddr5 ram, the 14600k performs slightly better than the 12700k in both multithreading and gaming, though it's substantially weaker than the 12900k. In terms of gaming, when using ddr5 ram it performs slightly better than the amd r7 7700x, and slightly worse than the r7 9700x. However, using slower ddr4 ram (like the ram in this deal) massively reduces gaming performance. The 14600k is 16% faster in gaming when using ddr5 7200 compared to using ddr4 3600 (which is faster than the ram in this deal): https://youtu.be/gV3fDDLr918?t=6
Therefore, when using the ddr4 ram in this combo, the 14600k will actually perform substantially worse in gaming compared to last gen zen 4 cpus like the 7700x using ddr5 6000. The hit to productivity performance can also be fairly major depending on the exact workload, though fortunately many common productivity applications aren't quite as memory sensitive.
The primary benefit of the 14600k at this price is its raw multithreaded performance (for applications that make use of its e-cores), it soundly beats amd cpus in a similar price-range in multithreaded performance, but is much more power hungry and rather inefficient.
The motherboard in this bundle is very low end, with an especially glaring flaw in terms of power delivery. The GIGABYTE B760M GAMING PLUS WIFI has a 4+1+1 phase vrm, which is woefully insufficient to handle the ~175w the 14600k can draw for all core workloads at stock settings. I would expect thermal throttling to set in very quickly under all core workloads unless you have an exceptionally well cooled case. Otherwise, storage options, pcie support, and overall i/o is quite poor, as expected of a micro-atx b760 (lower-midrange chipset) board. As a b760 board overclocking isn't supported, though the laughably poor vrm makes that a moot point regardless. Dmi lanes are also cut in half, but once again it doesn't matter much with such poor i/o. The lga 1700 socket is a dead end platform without an upgrade path, there will be no more cpus on it. Meanwhile the amd am5 platform will support an additional cpu generation (zen 6).
Motherboard specs: https://www.gigabyte.co
The 32gb of ddr4 3200 cl16 ram is acceptable, but not exceptional. Both its speed and timings are more towards the bottom end of average, though nothing too egregious. It does not use samsung b-die, and I'd expect overclocking headroom to be fairly limited. Ultimately, it'll hold the 14600k back by a moderate amount compared to high end ddr4 (and even more so compared to a ~$100 kit of ddr5 7200 cl34), but at the price it can grudgingly be excused. This ram kit is dual rank, so I'd expect extremely poor results if you purchase another kit to run 64gb in a 4 dimm 2dpc configuration.
The included ssd is middling at best, it's a low end pcie gen4 tlc drive without dram (it does support hmb). Both sequential speeds and more importantly random4k are fairly low, but it should be (very) grudgingly fast enough for most common use cases. While I'd generally recommend getting something a bit higher end as a boot drive (and 2tb drives are more of a value sweetspot), this ssd isn't terrible considering the combo price.
The included games are a nice bonus, and if you would have otherwise purchased them they add a fair bit of value to this bundle. I have anecdotally heard the games can be a pain to claim though. Details can be found here: https://softwareoffer.i
Ultimately, if you want a cpu with strong multithreaded performance in the short term, have an incredibly tight budget, and are fine with the incredibly limited i/o of the motherboard, this is a decent deal. If in addition to that you would have separately purchased the bundled games regardless, I'd say it reaches the level of a fairly good deal. If you live near a microcenter, I'd recommend getting the $350 7700x bundle instead. If your priority is gaming and you don't need multithreaded performance, I'd wait for another bundle deal on the 9600x paired with ddr5 6000, which will have substantially better gaming performance than the 14600k paired with ddr4 3200 ram. Otherwise, for most people I'd personally recommend waiting for a better deal, the motherboard in this combo is just too much of a dealbreaker imo.
I think 14600k is the best value in gaming at the moment, it beats any current AM5 offering that do not have x3d cache which is way more expensive
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Thank you! I wish I lived near a microcenter!
Ryzen 5 2600x
256gb SATA SSD
16gb 2400mhz RAM
(Didn't have a GPU as it's been sitting in my closet for 2 years)
I purchased a 9060 XT recently and the rest of this setup is bottlenecking hard. This bundle for $290 will get the rest of my PC where it needs to be to match the 9060XT without breaking the bank. I'll get way more drive space and an upgrade over SATA, double my RAM at higher clock speeds and get two free games with it while I'm at it!
Yeah the board may not be quite as amazing as I wish it was, but it's not like I need this thing to light the world on fire... If it gets most of my games to 60+ fps at 1440p, I'll call it a win.
Unless you get really old stock, fail to update it, and beat on the thing without adequate cooling, you have been fine for a while with the 14th gen stuff.
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For example the testing below shows a 9070XT or 5070 only having minor performance differences on a 14600.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T...are
A slower 9060XT would have little to no difference. Even older CPUs generally have only minor performance differences even with these faster cards being tested. It does vary from game to game some and may eventually become more of an issue in the future but at this point this CPU bundle and a 9060XT seems like a very balanced build. There's no reason to spend a lot of money on a 9800x3D chip for gaming performance with a 9060XT. You will almost always be GPU limited by the 9060XT and get very similar performance no matter the CPU.
I'd argue the exact opposite. The only thing that matters is to a particular person is that particular person's instance. I don't care what a reviewer's benchmarks show or what might be theoretically possible in some other situation beyond it helping predict how something will function in my own situation. To some minor extent I'll consider how it might be predicting how things will behave in the future as games change but that is always a bit of a guess.
Thinking to build a PC on a budget for my bro, and this seemed great for the setup.
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