Intel Core i7-14700K: What Reddit Really Thinks

Avoid. That's an expensive lottery of 'when', not 'if'.

Actually a good deal.

For the love of God, why won't my 8700k + 1080ti die already. It's been like almost 8 years and still chugging along doing everything I need. I seriously want to upgrade lol...........

I remember the decade of quad cores we had with intel, back in those days they at least had the decency to bring 5-7% increase in performance while doing a refresher. This isn't a refresher, it's a rebrand. Hope Intel can do better next year so we can get some competition, the power consumption is out of hand and you don't get the performance out of it.

honestly my biggest takeaway from this video is that the 5800x3d is the gift that keeps on giving

I have a 14700KF and haven't had any issues with it at all since I got it in November '23. I think people saying not 'if' but 'when' are basing that on pretty limited information. I'm not doubting that some people are having problems, but this notion that it is so widespread that virtually all 13th and 14th gen chips will fail within a couple of years is just bs.

Those power consumption results are brutal. 14700K uses 284 watts under load in Blender, while a 7800X3D uses 86 watts. What the hell is Intel thinking?

Damn, they gotta empty those shelves huh?

The scores mean very little if you are throttling all over the place. Most likely, the only reason the B660 got higher scores is that it was throttling less.

These chips really surprised me, temperature wise. It only has a 240mm aio cooling it, and cinebench doesn't even make it tjmax out. I have it on intel's recommended power limits right now. In that state, the 14700k can't always sustain 5.5, but it certainly can in any game or emulator or any other day to day task I've run.

It's probably fine. But 'probably fine' is not a great bar. I bought a 13700K on release and have it to this day without issues (although I have always explicitly ran it at the Intel default power targets), but if I had to buy a new CPU I wouldn't risk it. Would hold to my current PC, get 12th gen or AMD.

If you're purely gaming, there's no reason to even consider the 14700K unless it's bundled for a lower price than a 7800X3D setup. If you actually do so much multithreaded work that you really notice the benefits of a 14700K over a 7800X3D, you might as well go to a 14900K, because every minute saved helps.

It's hard. AM5 is the best choice for new builds with the x3d chips. For drop in upgrades, you would have to be from 12900k and below, but it's fast enough for most people, it's a side grade.

You can run it and get the bios update. Shouldn't be problem. It was the prolonged voltage that would damage the cpu

These are actually really good for new home server builds. Idles lower than AMD chips and has an iGPU that has quicksync, which is amazing for plex/jellyfin transcoding of media. Also, the lack of an upgrade path doesn't matter because typical home server services require extremely low compute power. This will easily last close to a decade, the time you'd want a new platform anyway.

Man. This is just sad. Rebranding CPUs and blasting power consumption while still be handily beaten by their competitor's existing products. I remember back in the FX days when AMD was this desperate. It was not pretty. When Ryzen came I thought those days were over because clearly Intel was holding back, right? Right? Nope. The complacency festered into incompetence and the shoe is now truly on the other foot which sucks for consumers because we need competition.

14700k is fast enough for all workloads.

That's the one I jumped on. They're sitting at my desk right now. I think I'm being gaslit by people on r/buildapc because they're telling me to go am5. That's crazy at that price, right? I don't plan on upgrading this pc for 5+ years so the socket longevity is a non-issue for me.

Something not right you only peaked at 253. I peak at 313 watts and never go above 94. Remount. Also run the R23 of cinebench older version.

I7 failure rates appear to be very low. I have a 14700k and love it, but same I wouldn't recommend it to someone except for a very slim number of scenarios, and when someone can accept if they end up with a bad one.

It's definitely for people still on z690 or z790 chipset

I've got a 14700kf - TBH all the reports of degradation make me nervous and If I was buying again I'd go for AMD.

I've had no problems with a 14700kf from launch other than you need really good cooling. Watch out for the AMD echo chamber in here. Not saying it's bad as my main is a 7950. But I have multiple current builds going and there are genuine reasons you would want Intel over AMD, mostly related to single threaded productivity software that you would see in a business environment. But if your shopping for gaming, AMD...

Insane pricing for the performance, I'd get it but i already ordered an AMD motherboard

Saying 'Equivalent performance to 13900K' is right, but saying 'and 7950X3D' is misleading. Looking at the data from Hardware Unboxed you can clearly see it loses out by a noticeable margin.

I just built a 14700K system. In my research, everything I saw suggested that the real problem was that motherboards were overclocking by default, and that the simple fix was to just use Intel's recommended defaults. So when I got it set up, that was the first thing I did.

For a new build, it probably is a better deal then spending 400 plus on the 9800x3d especially if you can use the money saved to upgrade GPU tiers. AMD will be on AM6 when you need to upgrade from either CPU.

I bought mine about March time frame. I have a 14700k that is overclocked and cooled with a 360mm AIO...and after tuning the fans, since they were a bit loud at first, I am happy with it. Lots of people talk about how much greater a AMD chip is for gaming...but gaming really depends mostly on your GPU.

Is this card safe now from the voltage issues? I haven't been following closely over the past year or so.

I went for a 14700k from a 12700k when it was on sale for $300 from Best Buy and it came with BF6. I don't regret it at all. YMMV but I also got a specimen of a chip, it can hold some crazy OCs.

Yes, that CPU supports Windows 11. For gaming, that CPU is relatively more powerful than the 4060 Ti. That is, the GPU will be the weak link in the system. If you had a faster GPU, you could get more performance out of the CPU.

I bought a 13700k and immediately had a bunch of games crash on me. Wasn't sure what was causing it. Supposedly 13700k isn't part of the problem, but I will say I've never had an unstable system ever in my life building computers 25 years, at least one I couldn't identify and fix. Think I might jump ship to AMD next time.

Crazy price. But mine ran into BSOD issues in less than a year. Currently having to offset vcore by 0.15 to stabilise it while my replacement arrives. Thought I'd give up and switch to AMD but my 9900X hasn't even shipped yet so might just cancel and continue with Intel.

Personally I would still avoid 13th and 14th gen, just because intel lied so much and was unable to act, so I am skeptical about their 'yo guys it is fine now'. LGA 1700 platform is dead, AM5 platform will be here couple of more years.

My 14700k undervolted by .12 does not go past 78c in intense workloads, and is 40c on very minimal workloads, less at idle. It was very hot at stock yes 80-90c on intense workloads.

Most of your gaming power comes from your GPU anyways. In GPU heavy games, your GPU will bottleneck your CPU, so it doesn't really matter as long as it is strong enough.

Currently running this for my work pc. It's been spiffy for cpu tasks.

I would advise not buying Intel nowadays.

I actually think that the 14700k is a really good processor for a multi-purpose build like yours. It's sadly just inefficient as fuck, extremely power hungry compared to AMD. If that's not a problem for you, I currently (after the recent microcode update) see no issue in going with it.

I've just bought a 14700K as an upgrade to my 12600K. I want to keep my Z690 motherboard and DDR4 for as long as possible. This will allow me to keep it for at least another three years. Then it will time for a full system upgrade to DDR5.

Got this in yesterday to upgrade from a 12700K. The box was a bit smashed. The 14700K looked fine so I went ahead to install it. Fresh MX-6, with a 240mm AIO this chip runs well but about 10c hotter than my 12700K from idle to bench. Performance gains so far are 3-10 FPS depending on the game. Cyberpunk is smoother and better frame time. I've got to tweak around with an under volt to reduce this heat though. 35-40c at idle and up to 90c on the bench is a bit too high for me.

This is what Intel has going for them right now. The chips are cheap. Bought a new 12600k for a second pc build for 130 dollars. Can't beat prices like that for the performance you're getting.