CPU $320
Intel Core i5-14600K
The Intel Core i5-14600K is the little brother in Team Blue’s 14th gen product stack (we’re yet to see a Core i3 make it to market just yet). That said, it still packs some serious punch on the performance side of things. By default, it comes with a total of 14 cores. Six of those are Intel’s Performance-cores, complete with hyper-threading, the remaining eight are the ‘Efficient-cores’ designed for desktop applications. It clocks in at a max turbo frequency of 5.3 GHz, but other than the 200 MHz bump to clock speed, is identical to the Core i5-13600K. It doesn’t even get access to APO.
That said, it’s still a potent chip, and comes with all the other bells and whistles you’d expect from a 13th gen product. It’s just a shame that it’s half
