Customer Ratings & Reviews

Decent CPU, but I had to undervolt it a bit to prevent the degradation issues.

My first upgrade in over 6 years. Happy, happy, happy

Exactly what I needed and it was ready for pickup within less than an hour.

Just here to win the 400 dollar gift card. Nothing more. Carry on

great memory compatibility and surprisingly great temperatures.

Legit has to be the worst CPU I have ever bought. I purchased this CPU around April of 2024, and it has given me nothing but problems since day one. It started off with BSODs every night randomly from what appeared to be a "RAM" issue. But checking with different stucks the problem still occured. Thats when I learned about the problems MANY people have with this CPU, being unable to do much of anything without crashing or other fatal errors. Then I learned about the microde update or intel default settings that motherboard manufacturers have to set in order for this processor to run properly. When it came out I was so happy, now I can finally run my games and stuff with no problem. But, alas, it was not to be, as using this update fixed the blue screens. But made almost everything else borderline unusable. For example, when I play a game like Final Fantasy 14 , I have to be wary to do anything like watching a video or even clicking into discord as it can crash the game randomly. And I thought it was the game at first but others with this CPU also reported this happening willy nilly while the majority on other processor platforms had no such thing. It has gotten so bad that my browser Opera GX will just randoly crash at moments where it feels like nothings happening. Like watching youtube shorts, any live stream, or just sitting on the home page. It doesn't make sense to me how a current gen processor can't run something as simple as a browser can be offered on the market like this. I finally decided to pull the trigger today 11-9-2024 after crashing a total of 54 times in Final Fantasy 14 just doing trials and dungeons. I cannot for the life of me keep working with this CPU. This brings me to say if you're thinking about buying this CPU, and are worried about the controversy of the 13th and 14th gen. Believe them, I thought it was just a minority of people who had this problem of instability with this processor, but it happened to me. And it most certainly can happen to you. If you are thinking about buying the other brand, I'd say go for it, I have heard nothing but praise for their cpus. I will never buy another intel product again.

The price of the processor was a little high. But I must say I’m very happy with it. No issues so far.

I bought this in a generational upgrade jump from 12th to 14th back in February and almost immediately it began overheating and I had to go back to exchange it for a different processor which has now failed even with the mirco code update. If you try to go into your local Geek Squad with too many swaps they will cancel your total tech and unfortunately the company will not stand behind their products.

Quality product with a perfect fit into my existing rig.

I am currently on the phone having to argue to get a refund as intel seems to have knowingly put out faulty CPUs, relying on bios patches to fix them. The cpu will randomly break. Don't buy it.

I works amazing when setting on the multiplyer is turned down but run it as is out of box, it will crash randomly.

I bought an Intel i7-14700k on Feb 10. I put this CPU on three different motherboards, none of the three attemps successfully boot the BIOS system. I then spend tons of time debugging the whole pc system and finally brought the cpu to professional tech guys, the results are consistent - this is a dead CPU. I brought the CPU to BEST BUY today (March 8) and asked for a refund or replacement. They rejected it since it has pasted the 2-week due. I understand that this is BEST BUY's after-service policy, but this policy is not very reasonable and should be more flexible. Debugging a pc system is very time-consuming, since there are many aspects that need to be checked and every step requires carefulness. Policies are set by human and can be changed. One star for the worst customer service I have ever experienced.

Constantly crashing using Premiere Pro. My computer was fine until I upgraded CPU from a 12900. So much time and money lost. Now I find out Intel made bad chips. I go to return and find out Best Buy only has a 14 day return policy which is not enough time to troubleshoot and figure out that the CPU does not work.

Best buy sold me a review unit that wouldn't work in a actual PC. Took over a month to find this information out from Intel's warranty program. Best buy refused to replace it because it was outside their 2 week return policy. I'm never shopping here again when Amazon has a 30 day returns for any reason.

It was great until Intel's voltage settings degraded it into oblivion. RMAing as we speak... The new BIOS fix is out but it won't fix your already damaged CPU.

Not stable, can break your motherboard. Do NOT buy this. I patched my BIOs with the intel update to fix the instability issue and it still has issues.

Slowed down gaming and continued crashing after a few months going amd next build.

Worst CPU ever. Very unstable and crashes when running any games.

If you game avoid this processor. It is terrible for gaming.

I was a little scared of getting this since i learned of the 13/14 gen debacle. After getting it for $315 instead of an AMD that was $450 I felt like i scored. I hope to try AMD next round if the prices are cheaper. Installed into a new mobo and immediately updated the gugabyte board to the newest bios and made sure the default intel speed was on. So far so good. Coming from an 11700k the speed is fasted and more responsive.