Grab this Intel Core i5-14600K and Battlefield 6 for just £170 from Scan Computers
Woah, that's a steal.
Intel's 'Raptor Lake Refresh' CPUs are a generation old now, and we've already seen some fantastic reductions on all manner of the 14th-gen chips including the 14400F and the 14700K. Intriguingly though, this is the first deal I've written on the 14600K mode; since it was new back in October 2023.
Nonetheless, they say it's all about quality rather than quantity, and this deal is a good one. From Scan Computers, it's possible to get this 14600K plus a free copy of Battlefield 6 for £170 as part of Intel's Gamer Days promo. On its own, £170 for this chip is a reasonable price, although with a copy of Battlefield 6 retailing for £60, it essentially makes the processor just £110, taking it further into 'steal' territory.
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Intel Core i5-14600K + Battlefield 6Now £169.99 (was £194.99) |
Coming with 14 cores (split asymmetrically between six Performance and eight Efficiency cores), as well as a boost clock of 5.3GHz makes the 14600K quite the powerful chip for pretty much anything you throw at it, including both gaming and content creation workloads. With a -K suffix, this chip is also overclockable, if you want to go even faster. Of course, there's also support for DDR5 plus PCIe 5.0 SSDs and graphics cards with the correct motherboard, so you can get some especially snappy performance for right now, and some measure of future-proofing to upgrade your system with fast RAM and more advanced SSDs or graphics cards as they're released.
In the Digital Foundry Core i5-14600K review, Will noticed that at the time, it traded blows with its predecessor, the 13600K, and came out with narrow victories in the likes of Hitman 3, where it was only eight percent faster. Moving over to Crysis 3 Remastered brought the margin down to just three percent. I should stress though that the FPS figures experienced in a variety of titles are more than playable, and the 14600K represents an excellent choice for gaming, even if it isn't as big of an upgrade as we're used to these days.
In content creation workloads, the 14600K impresses too, and even if its performance gains compared to the last-gen chip aren't that noticeable, there's no denying it's still a snappy processor. Its Cinebench R20 scores prove it's well-suited to difficult rendering tasks, while in our Handbrake video encoding test, the 14600K also mustered up some solid FPS rates and speeds. It does use marginally more power than the 13600K, but provides small gains in performance, so both chips work out to about the same.
If you want a powerful mid-range Intel CPU plus a free game for a steal of a deal, look no further than this excellent Scan Computers reduction.