Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 Desktop Processor 245KF 14 cores (6 P-cores + 8 E-cores) up to 5.2 GHz

I did a lot of research before picking the 245k, I was actually about to buy the I7 14700k and then saw this processor. It has received a lot of bad press, but this is primarily based on gaming performance versus previous generation 14700k at the same price point. However two things made me buy this instead: the primary use for the PC is for Blender usage, and the 245k scores 316 versus 396 for the 14700, and is way above the likes of AMD 7800X3D (261 core) and was priced at a 1/3 of the price for me. This left enough money to get a better GPU So this was a clear winner for me from a value for money perspective.

Been putting this off for a while now due to all the negative press around Intel Ultra CPU's, black Friday seemed to be a good time to buy as Intel Ultra 5 245K was £150, this was purchased with an Asus Prime B860M-A-CSM mother board, all went together well and the 245K preformed as expected, Idle power draw at 25.6w with two m.2 drives, full power draw of 185w, both wattages are from the plug not internal CPU wattages, performance mark was better that online with multi CPU at score 44988 and single CPU at 4876, CPU-Z came in at 10918 and 855 respectively, all the negative press is around gaming performance, my PC is for a CAD work station, and at this price this is quite good value for money with the CPU cost being so low.

Good value for what I provides £119 for 14 cores, (£8.60 per core)

Works

Great little cpu depending on your use case. For gaming I believe it's pretty weak, but for a low power option for a NAS build it's perfect. Idle power from the cpu alone is only 10w

Pretty decent for the price seems to cope fine with everything I've thrown at it playing bf6 with rtx 5070 tuf oc is buttery smooth no complaints ,

Amazing value for money! Pc has never been so damn fast!!!

The Intel core i9 processor is like the song, simply the best. There is ntohign else that compares to it, they dont run hot!

Performance of the processor as expected with a good price

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Works great for my media server build. Runs cool and doesn't use a lot of power. The 245k's built in AV1 encoding is what sold me on this CPU. This saves me money from having to buy a discrete GPU and having to power a discrete GPU in a 24/7/365 situation.

Producto llegó en el tiempo señalado, bien empacado y nuevo con todos los sellos. Funciona como se espera.

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