Newegg has the
Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF 20-Core (8P+12E) Cpu +
MSI MPG Z890 EDGE TI WIFI7 GAMING MOTHERBOARD +
CORSAIR Vengeance RGB 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR5 6000 CL36 Desktop Memory +
Intel Motherboard Bundle: Star Wars: Outlaw Gold Edition (PCDD Game) +
Intel Holiday Bundle - 2025 (Choice of one of four PCDD Games) on sale for
$423.39. Shipping is free.
Additionally, receive a
$50 Steam Digital Code [msi.com] when you register your 'MSI MPG Z890 Edge TI WiFi 7 Gaming Motherboard' and upload your purchase invoice (within 14 days of purchase date).
Deal instructions:
Add the cpu and motherboard to cart, the cpu should automatically have the $10 promo code
SSE2965 applied. Both items MUST be sold and shipped by newegg, the cpu appears to default to a third part seller, manually change the seller to newegg before adding to cart:
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF - Core Ultra 7 (Series 2) Arrow Lake 20-Core (8P+12E), LGA 1851, 125W Deskt... [newegg.com]
- MSI MPG Z890 EDGE TI WIFI7 GAMING MOTHERBOARD [newegg.com]
The following items should be automatically added to cart alongside the cpu and motherboard (links are for reference only, do not add them separately):
Your total should be $533.39 - $100.00 combo savings ($50 each from the cpu and mobo) - $10 promo code discount =
$423.39.
Once again, don't forget to register your motherboard within 14 days of purchase to receive the $50 steam digital code (instructions here):
https://download-2.msi.com/archiv...-Steam.pdf
The motherboard and associated extras (without the cpu and intel holiday 2025 bundle) is currently frontpage at $250:
https://slickdeals.net/f/18763003-msi-mpg-z890-edge-ti-wifi7-corsair-vengeance-rgb-32gb-2-x-16gb-6000-cl36-50-steam-gift-card-star-wars-outlaws-gold-249-99
Bundled "additional items" may go out of stock, please double check to ensure that all items are properly showing up in cart before checking out. Likewise, if either the cpu or motherboard become backordered they will no longer apply combo savings, please verify the price is correct before checking out. If the combo discounts aren't applied, double check that both the cpu and motherboard are "sold and shipped" by newegg, manually change the seller to newegg before adding to your cart if necessary.
Newegg is currently offering a bonus $15 promotional giftcard with purchase of a $100 giftcard, which could be used with this deal:
https://slickdeals.net/f/18761887-100-newegg-gift-card-15-newegg-promotional-gift-card-100-email-delivery
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You can also sweeten this deal a little with the ongoing newegg giftcard promotion (bonus $15 giftcard with purchase of $100 giftcard): https://slickdeals.net/f/18761887-100-newegg-gift-card-15-newegg-promotional-gift-card-100-email-delivery
Bundled "additional items" may go out of stock, please double check to ensure that all items are properly showing up in cart before checking out. Likewise, if either the cpu or motherboard become backordered they will no longer apply combo savings, please verify the price is correct before checking out. If the combo discounts aren't applied, double check that both the cpu and motherboard are "sold and shipped" by newegg, manually change the seller to newegg before adding to your cart if necessary.
The Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF is a current gen 20-core (8p, 12e) 20-thread cpu on the lga 1851 platform. As an arrow lake cpu, it is not affected by any of the instability/degradation issues of the previous generations. In most respects the 265kf performs fairly similarly to the previous gen i7-14700k (it's moderately faster in productivity workloads, but has slightly worse gaming performance when paired with lower speed ram), but the 265kf is drastically more power efficient. In fact, the 265kf isn't much worse than its amd zen5 competitors such as the 9900x in terms of efficiency. While the lack of an improvement in gaming performance is unfortunate, unless you have a gpu with at minimum rtx 5080 level performance the 265kf is more than sufficient. In terms of productivity, it depends on the workload (zen5 slaughters intel in avx-512 for example), but the 265kf is generally slightly ahead of the amd r9 9900x. It absolutely crushes any single ccd amd cpu in terms of multithreaded performance. In terms of gaming performance, the 265kf is usually somewhere in-between non-x3d zen4 and zen5 cpus on standard udimm ram. The 265kf does NOT have an igpu for display output, a discrete gpu is required. It therefore doesn't support intel quicksync (hardware accelerated video encoding/transcoding). A cpu cooler is not included, you will need to purchase one separately.
Motherboard specs: https://www.msi.com/Motherboard/M...cification
Motherboard review: https://wccftech.com/review/msi-m...rd-review/
Hardware unboxed z890 roundup: https://youtu.be/GxzMtPmjG_M?t=8
The MSI MPG Z890 EDGE TI WIFI7 GAMING MOTHERBOARD is an upper midrange full size atx z890 (high end chipset) motherboard. Arrow lake is the first generation on the lga 1851 socket, but unfortunately it's currently looking like future cpu generations won't be on lga 1851, only arrow lake refresh. This motherboard supports overclocking, and has a frankly overkill 16(90a)+1+1+1 phase vrm. Storage options and i/o are quite good. The primary x16 slot is gen5, and there are five m.2 slots, one being gen5 and the others being gen4. For networking it has wifi 7, bt 5.4, and 5gb lan.
The ram is the biggest disappointment in this combo, but that's to be expected considering the current horrendous state of the memory market currently. Prices have jumped 50% or more, and they're not expected to drop anytime soon. Ddr5 6000mt/s 36-44-44-96 1.4v is middle of the road, not exceptional but not bad. It unfortunately is extremely unlikely to use hynix memory chips (most likely samsung instead), so I'd expect overclocking/tuning potential to be fairly limited. High speed (8000mt/s+) cudimm memory would provide a meaningful performance boost over the ram in this deal, but would also be a few hundred dollars, so nowhere near worthwhile.
Msi steam code promotion links ($50 for the z890 edge ti wifi):
https://us.msi.com/Promotion/empo...k=mb-intel
https://download-2.msi.com/archiv...-Steam.pdf
The 265kf comes with two free games; Star Wars Outlaws Gold Edition and your choice of: Battlefield 6, Assassin's Creed Shadows, Dying Light: The Beast, or Sid Meier's Civilization VII. Terms/information here:
https://softwareoffer.i
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