22/04/2026 9:15 pm
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Honestly I am so fed up with my current setup. I have been building rigs since the Sandy Bridge days but this latest 12th gen i7 I am using is just not cutting it anymore for my workflow. I am trying to run high-bitrate streams while having Ableton and a million Chrome tabs open and the lag is unbearable lately. I need to upgrade before my big charity stream next Friday and I have about $600 to drop on the chip alone at the local Micro Center.
- Must handle heavy encoding without dropping frames
- Needs to play nice with Windows 11 thread director
- Low thermal overhead if possible (I am tired of 95C spikes)
Should I just bite the bullet on the i9-14900K or is the stability stuff I am hearing about actually a dealbreaker?
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22/04/2026 9:15 pm
honestly i would suggest being careful with those i9 stability issues. save some cash and grab the Intel Core i7-14700K 20-Core 5.6GHz LGA 1700.
- way better thermals
- much cheaper
