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News Save big on Intel 14th Gen CPUs at Newegg

The price drop don't seems like a big discount... and considering how the next gen should supposedly be faster and not needing to worry the degradation (if trusting Intel this time around)... one would likely either go wait next gen or go AMD at this point of time
 
At this point, I would recommend not take the risk and wait for Arrow Lake (if one must get an Intel desktop CPU). Moreover, the higher end Raptor Lake likely also lost performance as a result of all these BIOS updates limiting power draw.
 
14th gen is a risky buy, and we don't know if Arrow Lake will have the same issues. Sure, Intel said that 13th/14th gen problems have not been carried over to Arrow Lake, but can you trust Intel these days?

Intel lied a s recently as about a week ago, when they said that the latest microcode mitigations for 13th/14th gen will solve the issue, and do so without affecting performance, only to have somebody test that fix few days later and show that there is in fact loss of performance.

Intel simply can't be trusted. I think that most people will just upgrade to AMD instead, or wait for a few months to see if Arrow Lake CPUs burn up like 13th/14th gen do, before deciding what CPU to upgrade to.

In UK, Amazon's top-10 selling CPUs are all AMD. In US, 13/14th gen occupies #10 spot; more people there are buying 12th gen over 13/14 when it comes to Intel. There is not much confidence in Intel these days.
 
"Attractive prices"!
This "article" about the offerings, is more a ad in disguise. Shame on you TH.

Calling those chips 14th gen is Intel's marketing BS. More than half of those generations are more face lifts at best, so on that ground I think media needs to stop using those marketing BS terms about the Intel chips.

And as for buying one of those chips, why would anyone with a little current knowledge buy a Intel CPU in the first place. Clearly those factory overclocked products can't really be trusted.
 
14th gen is FinFET chip. Arrow lake will be gate all around chip design. I would save your money for Arrow Lake if you are in the market. They come out in a couple weeks. I have 13th gen and it's awesome. No need to upgrade for awhile.
 
Nice deals, hope they cross over the atlantic, especially with the new mitigation patches that reduced power draw by a lot, these are insanely good deals. 14 cores for the price of...6.
 
sorry, still not worth it. no one i know that is looking to upgrade, is getting intel right now. they are going with amd for their upgrade cycle this time.