I need help with a cpu

[YasPrince]

Budget (including currency):  200

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Boneworks,alyx,fortnite,minecraft,rdr2

Other details I am currently looking at a Intel Core i5-12400 12400 4.40 GHz with 12 cores 
is there anything for that price that is  better?

 

[Tetras]

I would get a 12600K/12600KF instead of a 12400, it should be affordable for your budget.

 

Best to avoid 13th-14th gen.

 

12700KF is just out of your budget (by $20 or so).

 

Note that K/KF do not include coolers, but the 12400 does.

[podkall]

Do you already have the motherboard?

[Haswellx86]

22 minutes ago, Tetras said:

Best to avoid 13th-14th gen.

I hate that this is a thing now, but other than just losing performance, OP should go AMD. Also, we all are saying 12th gen is safe, but 12th gen also has failure rates, just no where near as much as 13/14th gen, who like actually have a problem now than just defective chips.

 

It all just clearly seems like a degrading issue. I mean seriously, 400 watts and 1.4+ volts through such small holes in some piece of silicon is truly physically aggressive. That is why lower TDP processors are not having this issue. Actually, a 13400 is not even listed in the ones have the problem, and is considered as safe as the 12400. We just need to undervolt and power limit these power hungry processors. Reducing max clock speed by a couple hundred MHz will help a lot, especially that the voltage will be lower. And proper cooling is also important too keep the voltages and power usage low.

 

What I would recommend for those with an already degraded chip and want to get it working, is to increase the voltages, and disable C states, but of course to not degrade it further, just limit the clock speed and undervolt if possible. If I really had one, I would even go scanning deeper and see if a particular core is degraded and causing the issues and then either just disable it or reduce its clock speed or just increase its voltage just a little bit.

[Why_Me]

2 hours ago, YasPrince said:

Budget (including currency):  200

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Boneworks,alyx,fortnite,minecraft,rdr2

Other details I am currently looking at a Intel Core i5-12400 12400 4.40 GHz with 12 cores 
is there anything for that price that is  better?

 

PCPartPicker Part List

CPU: *Intel Core i5-12400F 2.5 GHz 6-Core Processor  ($109.94 @ Newegg) 
Motherboard: *ASRock B660M Pro RS Micro ATX LGA1700 Motherboard  ($94.99 @ Amazon) 
Memory: *Silicon Power XPOWER Turbine 32 GB (2 x 16 GB) DDR4-3200 CL16 Memory  ($46.97 @ Amazon) 
Video Card: *Gigabyte EAGLE Radeon RX 6600 8 GB Video Card  ($179.99 @ Newegg) 
Total: $431.89
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
*Lowest price parts chosen from parametric criteria
Generated by PCPartPicker 2024-07-31 16:58 EDT-0400

 

 

 

[Dedayog]

5 hours ago, YasPrince said:

Budget (including currency):  200

Country: USA

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Boneworks,alyx,fortnite,minecraft,rdr2

Other details I am currently looking at a Intel Core i5-12400 12400 4.40 GHz with 12 cores 
is there anything for that price that is  better?

 

Not wise to separate budget amounts for individualsl components.

 

Why not post your total budget and we can work to build a nicely balanced machine?