Top Intel Processors For Gaming

With one word of caution. AT THIS WRITING AMD processors support the new PCIE 4.0 standard that this drive operates on. Intel processors are not scheduled to be released that support this new protocol until 2021. I paired this drive up with a non PCIE 4.0 Intel chipset (based on the product's advertisement that it is backwards compatible). I can say truthfully it is not backwards compatible. When I employed this drive I received error, after error, after error from Windows 10, notwithstanding that Samsung has not yet even released a Windows driver for this drive. It used the Windows 10 default 2006 Microsoft driver to operate with. Once I took it out of that system and put in a PCIE 3.0 drive that the system supported, all errors disappeared. Intel processor users will just have to wait until later this years when Intel chipsets supporting this new protocol are are mainstream.

AMD processors are the best processors that you can buy for the price. They are very dependable and are becoming more powerful than the Intel processors that are in the same generation. I built a powerhouse of a PC using this processor and couldn't be more satisfied.

I was looking around to see what other manufacturers were doing to creative desktops. Almost all were going to 8 core processors, including Apple. Unfortunately there's no 8 core solution in the 12th gen of Intel, so the logical choice was to go for 12 cores. So far it runs Lightroom, Photoshop, some gaming, and Office without any issues. The stock cooler is also very quiet compared to previous generations. It does get warm, so make sure your BIOS fan controls are configured properly. Asus surprised me with enabling enhanced perfomance by default, but after setting back to the default Intel values, it runs just fine and cooler.

Not the cheapest, but much less than the current gen processors. This is still plenty of power for a gaming pc. Don't overspend on the current gen!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I use my monitor for gaming. Paired with my Intel I9 1300kf and my Nvidia 4090fe. All I can say is the monitor rocks, the color and depth along with the saturation and refresh rate. I've used a lot of monitors from all the major brands and this is the best one.

Glad to see AMD can finally take on Intel on the gaming area, but for the price ($450 at the time of purchase) seems a bit expensive as 3900X 12-Core is sold at similar price.

AMD has finally convinced me to replace Intel in my main gaming rig. I've had multiple Ryzen CPUs from every generation and they had always been good for power/thermal constrained use cases, but for ultimate gaming performance Intel was ahead, sometimes by a huge margin in poorly optimized games like the Far Cry series. Now they're ahead or on par in just about every game. Every techtuber loves to say that 8 cores is enough for gaming, but I ran into situations in games like Battlefield 5, Death Stranding, and Cyberpunk 2077 where my 9900K at 5.2GHz didn't have enough multithreaded performance when combined with a 2080 Ti or 3090. No more spikes to 100% usage in 64 player BF5 matches. It's great for H.264 and H.265 encoding as well and when Zen 4 comes along and I inevitably end up upgrading I'm sure this will be a great upgrade for one of my VM hosts/Ceph nodes.

I'll start by saying I have over the years gone back and forth between AMD and Intel with whoever has the best CPU at the time for my gaming habits. This later also expanded into some stuff like video editing and streaming from time to time. Though I still use my system for gaming 95% of the time. That said I also love to build PC's and typically enjoy the higher end enthusiast builds. Because of this I have over the past 10 years been using Intel's HEDT motherboards like X79, X99 and now X299 chipsets. Currently running an X299 Asus Rampage VI Apex board I had originally purchased with an i9-7900X. Based on this I felt an easy and now cheaper upgrade to the i9-10920X CPU would be the best route. Yes there are better AMD CPU's out there right now, but Intel still does very well in the gaming performance. So since this was just a CPU swap out for me it was the best way to go I could keep everything else in my system as is. This motherboard has been rock solid and only 2 years old at this moment. I was not disappointed, this CPU works great out of the box. Has very good turbo features for those that don't know how to overclock. It will consistently run 2 cores at 4.8Ghz, 2 at 4.7Ghz, 2 or 3 at 4.6, and the rest at 4.5 down to 4.4. Using Intel Turbo Boost Max 3.0 software you can force older games that use typically 1 main core to use your strongest cores first for the extra speed. If the program/game has great multicore support then you have the 12 cores which really is plenty for gaming and enough for a good balance of production unless you crunch videos all day. OC wise I have only messed with it some so far but it's not hard to get this CPU to 5.0Ghz on all cores with what I am using, a Corsair H115i Pro AIO water cooler.

Great for gaming, good for productivity, sips the power. Glad i made the switch from Intel. And of course the B&H customer support is quick, reliable, friendly, and puts their customers needs first! Can’t say that about many companies these days.

Purchased this motherboard as the backbone of a new gaming rig. populated with an Intel i7-14700KF, 64GB of Corsair Dominator RAM, 4TB of Samsung M.2 storage and topped with an ASUS RTX 4070Ti graphics board. build went quickly and booted up successfully first time. This has been the result with all of the ASUS M/Bs that I have purchased for my gaming, engineering design and simulation and business applications. I do not consider other brands when I need to build another machine, no reason to switch.