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My Intel Core i9-14900KS

Yes I did need those lanes lol. I ran all sorts of SLI on my 6900K along with a nice sound blaster card. I've been gaming at 4k for prolly over 10 years. Glorious. I'll probably end up with this 14900KS to replace my 12700K.

They had 4 memory channels with 40 pci lanes, probably more comparable to those workstation 4-mem channel Xeon of today (but they had no ECC support I think so no real comparable in today market).

The 6850K and up had that. Only the lowly 6800K was gimped. And they were pretty much drop in's on LGA 2011-v3 MB's. Bios update and away you went. Or, you could drop a xeon in there as many of us have. But, back then you could tell an HEDT...

As a guy who has talked with customers face-to-face and sold gaming PCs out of a brick-and-mortar store for over a decade: There are some who "just want the best" and will 'sort by price: highest-to-lowest' and add two of the top result to cart...

GPU and CPU prices have never been indicative of one another. You are comparing Apples and VW Jetta's. The fact is, this is a premium part priced accordingly. Value is not really something that factors into parts like this a whole lot. The people...

Anyone seen results for undervolting or underclocking this? I'm curious if you could achieve 14900K performance with less power draw

That's cheap for a high end processor. Intel and AMD's mainstream segment processors used to be $1,000.

But today competition is strong, this is 257mm of a very modest node. A 4080 super has 380mm of TSMC 5 in comparison maybe getting close to doubling the transistor count, come with 16GB of gddr6x-quite the pcb-power management-a ridiculously big...

youch thats pricey... yes i know about pricier chips, its still expensive. we do have a 6 page thread for it though... https://hardforum.com/threads/14900ks-coming-with-new-boards-same-1700-socket-techyes-video.2028555/page-6

Target audience: A) Peeps who think they just HAVE to have the "latest & greatest" B) Peeps who have more $$ than brains...(sometimes synonymous with A above) Some minor details were posted here earlier today...

Intel Core i9-14900KS IN STOCK $729.99 Newegg https://www.newegg.com/intel-core-i9-14900ks-core-i9-14th-gen/p/N82E16819118496?Item=N82E16819118496 Micro Center...