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Is it worth paying the extra for a 14900k over the 14700k

chaparral

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I was looking at ordering a 14700k but there out of stock so is it worth paying the extra for a 14900k ?
My CPU cooler is a dark rock pro 4 will this be ok for cooling a 14900k :confused:


(The cpu not from Ocuk as they stopped shipping to guernsey, before someone says they have them in stock)
 
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Dark Rock Pro 4 will not cope with a 14900K for anything remotely multi-threading heavy, it barely keeps up with the 14700K - you have to have the fan profile set to run at max under heavy multi-threaded load and/or upgrade the stock fans on it.

For most gaming and similar uses in my opinion not worth buying the 14900K over the 14700K - the 14700K will also boost quite handily to 14900K clocks for most gaming tasks with slight tweaks, though if you don't have access to the 14700K then it is kind of a moot point.
 
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Just looked on Ocuk and it seems they may ship to guernsey now.

Not sure what going on as I tried buying a 9900k & quest 2 headset plus some other items a few years ago and they would only ship to the uk mainland :confused:
 
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Jay85 said:
personally for the price of a 14900k i would take the 13900k instead, especially when the 13900k is on offer.
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I agree with this somewhat. I have just recently got 2 14900k for testing (I am a 12900k+13900K owner). I have not really noticed a difference between a 13900k and a 14900k although I am having more problems trying to cool the 14900k than the 13900k. Although I have not tried the feature whihc apparently the 14900k supports but there is no support for it on the 12900k or the 13900k.
 
GoRedwings19 said:
I agree with this somewhat. I have just recently got 2 14900k for testing (I am a 12900k+13900K owner). I have not really noticed a difference between a 13900k and a 14900k although I am having more problems trying to cool the 14900k than the 13900k. Although I have not tried the feature whihc apparently the 14900k supports but there is no support for it on the 12900k or the 13900k.
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I don't really have a perfect setup for comparison - but I've found the 14700K slightly but noticeably smoother and more responsive for gaming than previous generation systems I either own or have access to including 13th gen - I don't know if Intel has done any tweaks or whether the combination of hardware I'm using happens to work well or whatever (some motherboards can have an impact on power states and boost clock/turbo behaviour, etc. which can make a difference).

The 14th gen is definitely challenging to manage cooling wise though, one of the reasons I stuck with the 14700K over the 14900K due to not wanting to go AIO this time.
 
Coming back to this, weirdly none of the 13th gen have had price drops except on the large market place during black Friday when i saw it dip below £400 for the 13900k. Since then, 14th gen has had multiple price drops here and there but 13th gen is still holding.
 
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