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Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF CPU + Kingston NV3 M.2 2280 1TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive + Civilization VII & Dying Light: The Beast (PC Games) for
$279. Shipping is free.
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Bundled Items:
- Intel Core Ultra 7 265KF (Series 2) 20-Core (8P+12E) LGA 1851 Desktop CPU
- Arrow Lake 125W
- 30MB L3 Cache
- 36MB L2 Cache
- None Integrated Graphics
- BX80768265KF
- Kingston NV3 M.2 2280 1TB PCIe 4.0 x4 NVMe Internal Solid State Drive
- Max Sequential Read: Up to 6000 MBps
- Max Sequential Write: Up to 4000 MBps
- MTBF: 2,000,000 hours
- SNV3S/1000G
- Intel CPU Spring Bundle
- Civilization VII
- Dying Light: The Beast
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Or ya know, buy an AMD cpu for more performance and less money.
This socket is supposed to change next year, meaning no upgrades down the line.
Only buy an intel if you need the built in gpu for media transcoding in a server
There is no AMD CPU that has more performance for less money unless you cherry pick 1 scenario. The closest price comparison is the 9600x or 9700x. The 265k absolutely demolishes both in Multi-thread, the 265k is 2.14X faster than the 9600x and 1.73X faster than the 9700x... In gaming the performance is basically the same when paired with a 4090 to prevent no GPU bottlenecks, and efficiency is similar too. And the 265k has an NPU for AI workloads while neither of those AMD chips do, while heavy workloads will use your GPU, the lighter workloads like ones built into Widows and adobe programs will use the more efficient NPU on the 265k.
As for Socket 1851 only supporting 1 generation, that's a rumor based on assumptions. Intel almost always supports 2 generations on their sockets. As for AMD, while AM5 has had its support extended from 2025 to 2027, the expectation is that Zen 6 will be on AM6 and AMD is just extending support for AM5 to make 'new' SKUs using reject bins, like they did with AM4. There isnt expected to be a new architecture coming to AM5, just reusing old parts. TLDR; basically a similar situation for both brands, dont expect an upgrade path to new CPUs in the future, only existing ones.