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The Unpopular One
by Roger Lee Posted on: 3/27/2025Build Description
With all my friends building AMD-based systems right now, the my counter-current nature had me look into the reasons why Intel products had fallen so far in popularity. My research indicated that I would be pretty safe in purchasing a 14000-series cpu and using the most recent update of a bios from a leading motherboard manufacturer like MSI. I suppose one drawback is that the 14600k product lacks any kind of cooler in the retail box, but I was going to upgrade to something larger regardless. Apparently these Intel products are so unpopular at the current time that they're trying to bait consumers into buying their products by offering them free games after they purchase. Well, this tactic worked on me. One of these games, Assassin's Creed: Shadows, is what I'm currently playing.
Favorite Feature
Stability. I'm happy to report that I've had no observable voltage problems and no isses with unwarranted temperatures of my cpu cores. Maybe people have had problems with Intel chips that have more P-cores than the 6 featured in the 14600k. But for gaming, the price-to-performance ration of the 14600k is difficult to beat right now.*Note that this is all said in my experience with fully setting manual voltages in the motherboard bios. Your experience may vary if you use Auto or Auto-OC settings.

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