News Intel's Core Ultra 7 265K drops to $300 across various retailers

[Admin]

Intel has discounted its 20-core Core Ultra 7 265K to $300 or less at various retailers in different regions.

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[cyrusfox]

Out of the Arrow Lake Desktop lineup, this seems to be the best bang for the buck, 8P/12e, Very tempting. Much better performance than launch with most bugs out of it, still a bit of latency penalty with the chiplet design, not as good as X3D on games(or compared to Raptor lake on a lot of titles). But productivity task it seems to do great and a lot more efficient than Raptor. It would be replacing my 13900. I would finally need to pick up get some DDR5(thinking 48gb, 64gb is overkill for my workload but 32 isn't enough). But if I pull the trigger I will need to do a water build as I have a 2080ti with WB sitting in a drawer waiting to be added. I would need to figure out case and cooling for a custom loop which I haven't done for 8 years now...

I think the biggest issue is these capable laptops eliminate the need or even the desire for a desktop dedicated PC. With Lunar lake(258V), I only am annoyed by the performance when I am encoding which is like a once a month occurrence, otherwise there seems to be enough mobile performance to eliminate desktop usage. The sole place I long for more performance is on my work devices... locked in with IT garbage that is 3-4 years old and it feels like I am using a computer from 20 years ago, so laggy.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

That’s a pretty good price. They may need to consider doing what AMD did with the fx line which was to discount the CPUs enough to where they sold better. If they do enough of this perhaps Intel can get back towards being more competitive.

 

[artk2219]

That should move some units, Arrow lake still works wonderfully for productivity tasks, its mainly just the gaming performance that lacking. My biggest issue with it is the fact that they've basically discontinued it since their next refresh will likely be on a completely different socket. Meaning they've put themselves in the position where if gaming is your thing, LGA 1700 or AM5 are better choices. If you're already on AM5 or LGA 1700 its not worth moving platforms over, and if you're going to be upgrading in the future, you may as well wait for when they replace the socket with Nova Lake.