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Wondering what people's suggestions would be should I get the current gen i7 or last gen i9?

Primarly use my pc for gaming a bit of video editing + work but when I upgrade my pc again in hopefully 5+ years I put the CPU, motherboard and memory into my home server that I use for my lab.

i9 is £460 i7 is £420

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'd lean i7-14700K.

Marginally more efficient, a little less total power draw in games (~ 131W vs 143W) and apps (155W vs 169W): https://www.techpowerup.com/review/intel-core-i7-14700k/22.html

and you get the APO features.

Either one will be fine though. 13900K is a little faster in applications overall, but 14700K is a little easier to cool and cheaper to boot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You'll likely have to power limit either of them unless you have a 360 AIO.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Not really - they’ll throttle if they run too hot. No need to artificially power limit. They’re engineered that way.

There are also plenty of air coolers than can handle 200-250W