Intel's Core i5-14600K hits an all-time low of $149, with Battlefield 6 and other software included

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Not only is Battlefield 6 included, but you get Assassin's Creed Shadows, Canvid, XSplit Premium, and Vegas Pro 365 for free as well.

Intel's Core i5-14600K is on sale for $149, with 'Battlefield 6' and other software included for free
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Newegg is promoting one of the best CPU bargains of the year right now, featuring Intel's previous-generation Core i5-14600K discounted to historically low prices, combined with Intel's Gamer Days Bundle, worth $315 by itself.

At Newegg, you can grab Intel's Core i5-14600K for just $189.99 right now as part of its shell shocker sale. But on top of that, the listing also includes a $40 promo code you can enter at checkout, dropping the price of the CPU all the way down to $149. Paired with the Core i5-14600K is Intel's Gamer Days bundle, which includes several games and apps: Battlefield 6 Phantom Edition, Assassin's Creed Shadows Digital Deluxe Edition, Canvid, XSplit Premium Suite, and Vegas Pro 365.

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Intel Core i5-14600K: was $214 now $150 at Newegg

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The Intel Core i5-14600K is at an all-time low price. This 14-core processor has 6 P-cores and 8 E-cores with 20 threads. The chip peaks at up to 5.3GHz, making this chip a highly capable gaming CPU.

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The Core i5-14600K is still one of the fastest gaming CPUs in Intel's arsenal, despite being a generation old. Our gaming results reveal that the Core i5-14600K is capable of producing gaming performance well within the ballpark of the fastest gaming CPU models Intel makes and the latest CPUs AMD makes -- except for AMD's pricier X3D parts.

Intel's fumble with Arrow Lake-S has put the Core i5-14600K in the unusual spotlight of being Intel's fastest mid-range gaming chip across two generations. The Core i5-14600K outperforms its successor, the Core Ultra 5 245K, and virtually matches the Core Ultra 9 285K in our game-focused performance tests.

Productivity performance is not bad either; thanks to the inclusion of eight E-cores, the 14600K boasts multi-core performance, approaching the Ryzen 7 9700X and outperforming the Ryzen 7 7800X3D in our testing with Cinebench.

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Newegg's combo is hard to ignore if you are in the market for a mid-range CPU for your next build or CPU upgrade. Not even factoring in the game/app bundle, the Core i5-14600K deal alone is very competitive and makes the Raptor Lake chip arguably the best gaming CPU for $150.

The Intel Gamer Days bundle is the cherry on top, even if you only plan to play Battlefield 6. The cost of that game alone nearly cuts the 14600K's $150 price tag in half. There is so much content in the Gamer Days bundle that it's worth more than the CPU if you were going to buy it all.

In fact, the Intel Gamer Days bundle is being promoted on several Intel products right now, including the ASRock Challenger Arc B570 going for $229 and the Core Ultra 5 245K (which also happens to have a $50 promo code). Even with these higher-priced products, the software bundle is more valuable than the actual products themselves.

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10 Comments Comment from the forums
  • logainofhades
    If willing to risk the degradation issue, could be a nice upgrade for those using a low end 12th gen chip, or those wanting to reuse DDR4 from an old Intel rig.
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  • rluker5
    Has there been 1 confirmed report of a degraded Raptor i5 yet?
    I thought degradation of them only existed in theory and i7s and i9s were the ones degrading because motherboards often set the voltage to over 1.55v because the clocks got close to 6GHz, and since 5.3 GHz takes way less volts no i5s have noticeably degraded.

    But this is a great deal on a processor that will be fast enough for most for longer than the life of a brand new AMD socket.
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  • Amdlova
    Got 6 model of 12, 13 and 14 series all used they work great no problems at all.

    Good processor to work and play some games...
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  • Puce Moose
    That's an excellent deal on a solid mid-range processor. I upgraded my system earlier this year from an i5-9600k to the i5-14600k, and I've been quite happy with it. Paired with a 3070ti it's been a great 1080p gaming rig.
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  • TerryLaze
    Admin said:
    TKTK

    Intel's Core i5-14600K hits an all-time low of $149, with Battlefield 6 and other software included : Read more
    What the heck is TKTK?!?
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  • TerryLaze
    rluker5 said:
    because motherboards often set the voltage to over 1.55v because the clocks got close to 6GHz,
    No, even though that might most probably had happened as well, the issue was the bug in the bios, even if the mobo had a strikt limit to 1.55V or even lower the bug would add an amount of voltage to that, depending on circumstances, and thus exceed the maximum limit.
    So even though if mobos would have been less aggressive the issue would have been far less extensive it doesn't mean that it was the mobo makers fault.
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  • logainofhades
    rluker5 said:
    Has there been 1 confirmed report of a degraded Raptor i5 yet?
    I thought degradation of them only existed in theory and i7s and i9s were the ones degrading because motherboards often set the voltage to over 1.55v because the clocks got close to 6GHz, and since 5.3 GHz takes way less volts no i5s have noticeably degraded.

    But this is a great deal on a processor that will be fast enough for most for longer than the life of a brand new AMD socket.

    Tom's was reporting that all 65w plus Raptor lake based CPU's had issues, a year ago.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-cpu-instability-crashing-bug-includes-65w-and-higher-skus-intel-says-damage-is-irreversible-no-planned-recall
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  • TerryLaze
    logainofhades said:
    Tom's was reporting that all 65w plus Raptor lake based CPU's had issues, a year ago.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-cpu-instability-crashing-bug-includes-65w-and-higher-skus-intel-says-damage-is-irreversible-no-planned-recall
    The bug is present in those CPUs as well, that doesn't mean anything, if you don't come close to the max voltage in the first place then you can't exceed it so there is zero danger of your cpu having issues.
    If you have a 65w cpu and your mobo pushes it so much that it could actually get close to the dangerous voltages then that is 100% only the mobo makers fault in that case, there should be no way for a 65w cpu to reach those voltages under normal situations.
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  • logainofhades
    Even undervolted chips have failed. Jaytwocent's 14900k, in his personal rig, being a prime example. It's been undervolted from the start, yet still failed.
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  • TerryLaze
    logainofhades said:
    Even undervolted chips have failed. Jaytwocent's 14900k, in his personal rig, being a prime example. It's been undervolted from the start, yet still failed.
    There have been amd cpus that have failed.....a failed cpu doesn't mean that it was from this bug.
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