Intel 14th Gen Processors Review

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Up Close with Intel 14th Gen

Like storage drives, processors are never the most interestingly packaged items in the world. We get the benefit of having ours arrive in a special box, courtesy of Intel, so it looks a little bit glitzier than usual.

Lifting the lid reveals the processors in the packaging you’ll receive when you buy retail models. Thankfully Intel have dispensed with the idea of providing a CPU cooler in the box. We don’t think anyone ever used them anyway. We’d certainly not trust our new, expensive, purchase to a cooler designed down to a price point.

As we say, processors aren’t the most photogenic things on earth, but here is the Intel Core i5-14600K…

and the flagship 32 thread Core i9-14900K.

Here they are together. Our Core i7-14700K is feeling a little camera shy.