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Intel Core i7-14700K

WE’VE HEAVILY DOCUMENTED just how lackluster a launch Intel’s 14th generation of processors has been. At its best, it introduced an early look at APO and how Intel, with the help of Windows and Microsoft, can better leverage CPU resources to significantly boost performance across all manner of programs. At its worst, it gave us a 200 MHz overclock on the Intel Core i5-13700K and called it a day.

It is, without a doubt, a bit of a ‘meh’ generation, hardly worthy of the fanfare of a generational number bump,

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