Extremely fast CPU for Gaming and Productivity. Plenty of misinformation about this CPU coming from big youtubers like GamersNexus, HardwareUnboxed and etc.

Latest bios does not get rid of degradation. Manually tuning it does. Simply sync cores and undervolt via Loadline to prevent any sort of degradation.

For Best Gaming Performance. Get Windows 10 LTSC and Disable E Cores. For lower latency simply clock ring higher and tune your memory.

It's fast, I guess? But you should not buy this CPU unless you want to deal with a relatively higher risk of failure. High-end AMD CPUs are better anyway when it comes to gaming.

Amazing for a high-end gaming, computer and overclocking I would highly recommend

12/2/2024 Update: I just completed my bios update and was able to get a new processor from intel for free due to the instability flaw. I had no issues the first 6 months then it started to crash in certain games. (Helldivers, Forza, and BF2042), then I started to get random BSOD. I would bench test it and it would always pass 100%, I then would use the Intel Extreme tuner to dial down the Performance Ratio down by 3 and it never crashed after that. I finally contacted Intel customer support and opened a ticket and after several rounds of questions they agree to send me a new CPU. You have to pay $25 out of pocket for processing and then you must pay $600 for the replacement CPU, which they will fully refund once they receive the old/damaged one back. No BSOD and running at full ratio, so I guess I did have flawed CPU. And yes it runs hot, but seems to have gone down after reapplying thermal paste with the Noctua brand. On the bright side of things, I have been playing Stalker 2 on epic settings and have zero problems and everyone seems to have a ton of problems playing it.
Pro Tip: when cleaning up the old thermal paste, use the silver intel disk for packaging as tray to clean your pump head on so no debris falls into your case.

Knowing an Intel employee we managed to get it for cheaper, and basically guaranteed help/replacement if anything goes wrong. So far so good, runs fast no issues.

I don't usually review components in my builds, but for this processor I'll make an exception. This processor had initially been used for another computer, but something had gone wrong and the computer was showing signs of severe instability with blue screens and bootloops during startup. In the bios settings I had set the Intel settings by default, while later I had set automatic overclocking and activated XMP for the RAM memories. Thinking that the processor was faulty, I replaced it with another one, effectively obtaining a more stable system. At this point I thought that my Core i9 14900k was to be thrown away, given that the useful period for a possible return had already passed, but I wanted to give it a second chance by reusing it for this build. This time I wanted to keep the Intel settings, without imposing any changes in the bios, to understand if the processor was actually defective or not. Well, to my great surprise and relief, I was able to notice that not only was the 14900k fully functional, but that, without losing efficiency and speed, it had very low operating temperatures, which allowed me to have an extremely silent system. Now, it's clear that all this depends on Intel's highly limiting settings, but for me, since I don't use the PC to play, it's not that serious. All I need is for the computer to work well and smoothly. It's a real shame, however, to see Intel make these design errors and thus diminish the prestige it has worked hard to earn over the years... Having said that, I just wanted to testify to my experience with what I believe to be one of the most powerful processors currently on the market. Let's hope that Intel has learned its lesson and doesn't repeat the same mistakes with the next CPUs.

I would avoid this chip at all costs. Go with AMD or get a i7-14700K. The 14900k crashes in games and has been reported to have a 50% fail rate. My cchip would not run most games, a few would run like Return to Moria. However.... Cyberpunk, Red Dead Redemption 2, Baldur's gate 3, Dragon's Dogma 2.... all crashed immediatelty.

Update.... I changed my CPU to the 14700k and the issue persisted. I downgraded again to a 12900k. This resolved the crashing. I would avoid all 13th and 14th gen Intel processors. And moving forward I would never use them again based on how they are not dealing with their manufacturing issue in a ethical way.

Runs hot as expected, the BIOS fixes were available when I purchased, so the first thing was to update BIOS and then again two weeks later when the second microcode update was released by Intel. Seems stable enough with a 40mV undervolt and the 240mm AIO, although still throttles in 5 cores using X-Plane 1 core playing Doom Eternal.

Really good CPU, but way too overpriced

top of the line consumer grade CPU. amazing performance for resource-intensive tasks like rendering/game engines.