Rig: Intel i5-12600k / MSI Z790 Tomahawk / MSI RTX 4080 Suprim X / 64 GB DDR5 kingston fury / Lian Li mesh performance II / Noctua DH-15 with two fans / 2 intake fans / 3 exhaust fans / Gaming at 1440p & 4k
I want to upgrade my cpu, but I’m wondering what would be a logical upgrade, and if an upgrade from 12th gen is even worth it to 13th or 14th gen at the moment (with current price to performance).
I’m leaning towards 14th gen since it’s also the last gen on a LGA1700 socket, but with the bad reviews on it i’m not quite sure it’s worth the effort. Then again i just bought the motherboard, and i don’t want to wait on 15th gen and have to buy a new mobo again. Any thoughts and advice?
13600K or 13700K, if you can find sales those are great. I got my 13700K for $280 a few weeks ago and skipped my planned 14700K.
14600K or 14700K if you can find sales, I’ve seen 14700K around $370ish but with tax it kind gets close to $400.
Check your FB marketplace/Craigslist or online forums, I have seen 13900K for $350 so they’re out there, most of those people are looking to “side” grade to 14900K lol
14th gen isn’t “bad” per say, it was how it was marketed and rather than just calling it say 13750K or something it was a generational number change that just added +4 e cores to the 14700K and a MHz bump for the rest. Still replaced the SKU for 13th gen and they gated APO to 14th gen only. So you can see people being upset.
You will see a little bit of performance boost compared to your current chip, primarily higher stock boost, slight IPC increase, added ecores, and more cache.