Hello,

I’m going to buy one of these as an upgrade from a 12th gen. For 90% gaming usage which do you think would be a better way to go? There is only a $180.00 price difference between the two. I’m going to be pairing this with an MSI Z790 EDGE DDR4 motherboard with 4000 CL14 4x8 ram. I also currently already have a corsair 360 AIO. Does the 14900k have a better memory controller? I’ve also read that APO is only available currently on the 14900k? I’m not sure if that’s accurate or not? Which one would you guys go with? Thx

  • Noreng@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    14700K should play most games smooth like butter and with great fps, but if you really want to 14900K would probably last a little longer

    Lol, by “a little longer”, do you mean 10 days? Because the performance difference between a 13600K and 14900K in terms of gaming isn’t large enough that I’d consider the 14900K more “futureproof”.

    • PsyOmega@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Yeah, having more e-cores won’t extend the window of gaming usability

      By the time, a decade from now, that games hammer CPU’s, all current gen will not be enough.

      CPU’s age with gaming on only two factors, IPC and cache. core counts, especially e-core, doesn’t matter “as much”.