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Hmmmm I find that Intel CPUs going back at least 6 generations hold their value when compared to AMD. I don't know if that's due to iGPU or consumer sentiment. Best price to performance in the last few cycles has always been 2 generation old CPUs on sale on Black Friday. For example i5-12600K is now $153 and 12700K is $211. i3s and i5s in the past 6 gens, K and non-K, all hover around the $100+ price point used and not uncommon to see them go $130+. So your best price to performance is actually a K chip, at least for the next 3-4 days. If you're sorride about power draw, you can always manipulate power limits in BIOS, as well as turn Turbo Boost off.