CPU Recommendation?

[Pan_TorchaYT]

Budget (including currency): 500-600AUD

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cities Skylines 2, Minecraft Java (Heavily Modded), Hogwarts Legacy, Crusader Kings 3, Timberborn, Bloons TD6, Captain of Industry, Microsoft Clipchamp Video Editing

Other details: Gaming on a Samsung 1080p 75Hz monitor, its like 2years old but does work perfectly fine

 

Info: When I built my PC, I got a 13700f, RX6700XT, Z790 DDR4 Board, 32GB DDR4, 1TB SSD, 8TB HDD, 650W PSU

My 13700F started not turning off ~8months after purchase, originally I plugged a cable wrong and thought it was that, got it replaced and now I have a 14700KF

New problem my 14700KF is also faulty and am in process of getting it replaced

Also gonna get a new PSU my 650w thermaltake BX1 Bronze only has 576w on 12v rail

Will get a Gigabyte UD-GM 850W

 

What should I buy instead?

I was thinking: 12900KS as it will be completely unaffected by intel instability issues

Almost all the games I play need Quantity over Quality which is why I don't really want AMD

[TatamiMatt]

1 hour ago, Pan_TorchaYT said:

Budget (including currency): 500-600AUD

Country: Australia

Games, programs or workloads that it will be used for: Cities Skylines 2, Minecraft Java (Heavily Modded), Hogwarts Legacy, Crusader Kings 3, Timberborn, Bloons TD6, Captain of Industry, Microsoft Clipchamp Video Editing

Other details: Gaming on a Samsung 1080p 75Hz monitor, its like 2years old but does work perfectly fine

 

Info: When I built my PC, I got a 13700f, RX6700XT, Z790 DDR4 Board, 32GB DDR4, 1TB SSD, 8TB HDD, 650W PSU

My 13700F started not turning off ~8months after purchase, originally I plugged a cable wrong and thought it was that, got it replaced and now I have a 14700KF

New problem my 14700KF is also faulty and am in process of getting it replaced

Also gonna get a new PSU my 650w thermaltake BX1 Bronze only has 576w on 12v rail

Will get a Gigabyte UD-GM 850W

 

What should I buy instead?

I was thinking: 12900KS as it will be completely unaffected by intel instability issues

Almost all the games I play need Quantity over Quality which is why I don't really want AMD

Just to mention, AMD also has quantity, 14900K yes, has the most cores, but still has less threads than AMDs flagship CPU

 

Also the 14600K is around $200 vs 12900K $315 for roughly the same performance. Neither has any problems either as the 14th gen is an i5 and they were largely unaffected by any issues

[Pan_TorchaYT]

1 hour ago, TatamiMatt said:

Just to mention, AMD also has quantity, 14900K yes, has the most cores, but still has less threads than AMDs flagship CPU

 

Also the 14600K is around $200 vs 12900K $315 for roughly the same performance. Neither has any problems either as the 14th gen is an i5 and they were largely unaffected by any issues

1. Bruh, thats American... AUD not USA

2. AMD is good but that requires new Motherboard & RAM

3. AMD high core count is like $200AUD more than 12900k/ks

[TatamiMatt]

12 minutes ago, Pan_TorchaYT said:

1. Bruh, thats American... AUD not USA

2. AMD is good but that requires new Motherboard & RAM

3. AMD high core count is like $200AUD more than 12900k/ks

Ah apologies pcpp was set to America by default, but the price difference point still stands, just different numbers

 

by the looks of things the price difference is almost exactly the same

14600K: $379

12900K $609

[Pan_TorchaYT]

20 hours ago, TatamiMatt said:

Ah apologies pcpp was set to America by default, but the price difference point still stands, just different numbers

 

by the looks of things the price difference is almost exactly the same

14600K: $379

12900K $609

Just checked its 14600kf: $355, 12900ks $499 so its not bad and its a good price?

[TatamiMatt]

1 hour ago, Pan_TorchaYT said:

Just checked its 14600kf: $355, 12900ks $499 so its not bad and its a good price?

You do get 2 more cores with the 12900K, so its 6+8 vs 8+8 (P core and E core respectively). But the difference in the generations makes up for about 2 cores worth, so theyre very similar in performance, the 12900K sometimes winning in multicore tests by less than 5% but generally trading blows with the 14600K, and the 14600K winning in most single core tests by less than 10%

 

So the 14600K is probably better value for money

[Pan_TorchaYT]

22 hours ago, TatamiMatt said:

You do get 2 more cores with the 12900K, so its 6+8 vs 8+8 (P core and E core respectively). But the difference in the generations makes up for about 2 cores worth, so theyre very similar in performance, the 12900K sometimes winning in multicore tests by less than 5% but generally trading blows with the 14600K, and the 14600K winning in most single core tests by less than 10%

 

So the 14600K is probably better value for money

ok, I'll think about the 14th gen i5, although it may be faulty aswell and I'm already taking a core cut, and I do actually use all my cores.