- money is not an issue
- never will use it for gaming, just excel and opening 200+ tabs on chrome.
- worried if I get the i9, the arctic freezer II 360 aio, plus four additional 140mm fans won’t be able to cool the 14900. I want idle speeds to be under 40c and never go above 60c when using it.
- I understand that I don’t even need an i7 or i9, I do it because I wanna have to PC for the next ten years and have no problems and because I can. “Futureproofing for these basic functions”
- will I notice any differences between the 14900 and 14700 when opening chrome? Will have 64gb of ram.
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I have a 14700k and you are going to go over 60c with that cooler. I do with a custom water loop and a 420mm radiator. I’m adding another radiator soon.
You’re crazy.
I have a 13900k, which is very close to a 14900k in terms of heat.
I have an arctic freezer II 360.
Idle is about ambient. But I have actively optimised for this. I want power consumption as low as possible.
I used LLC undervolting. Under maximum load, which it rarely hits, it uses about 235W. Temperatures hit about 75C with 20C ambient.
60C I don’t see a possible short of exotic cooling (delidding, direct die, custom waterblock etc) or heavily power restricting the processor.
if you want 200+ tabs in chrome, get as much memory as you can afford, it’s that simple.
The lowest thermal throttling temp you can set on a 14900K is 62C, so you will have to settle for that.
AMD allows you to set the boost temperature target to 60C if I remember correctly, and since the V/F curve is a lot flatter on AMD CPUs in general, the performance deficit from doing so is significantly smaller
To be honest you might consider stepping up to a xeon workstation kit , 2x40 cores , 2TB ram. Then buy a new AC unit to cool it. Connect the AC directly to three phase power and locate your building in the snow for best passive cooling.
Get a Xeon workstation and never look back.
I’ve got a 44 core Xeon, 1TB of RAM. Never have to worry about anything. If money is no object, go with the Xeon and fill it with RAM.
OP: any of those processors would exceed your needs, however, the most important part here isn’t the CPU. It’s the RAM. If having a ton of things open simultaneously is your goal, I would aim to have 32gb or even 64gb if you want to truly futureproof it. (I only even say 64gb, as the prices have gotten decent and if you can… why not)
But either the i7 or i9 14 Gen will suffice for your needs. For a long time…
Just get some quality SSDs and remember to back them up as well.
What is this obsession with Temperatures here? Anything below around or below 80° heck even 90 would be ok…
You can force a low idle Temp by increasing the fan speed, but it will be noisy…
I have a 12900k with 2x16 GB RAM and 4090 will upgrade to 2x48gb and i often use over 200+ Tabs in chrome. Not all Excel but some are. 12900k i no problem for it so 14700k should be fine but If money doesn’t matter go AMD Threadripper with 2x 64 core CPU
Make sure you have loads of ram. 64gb should be good. About temperatures, it doesn’t matter. The room temperature has nothing to do with the temperature of your components, it only has to do with the total watts your system outputs. And about noise, Chrome tabs aren’t usually stressing the cpu to its limit, so get a good silent cooler and you are good to go.
I’d get 128 gigs of ram
Why would you need to open 200 tabs in Chrome?
How many tabs have you ever opened in Chrome all at once before posting this thread?
Why are you concerned about the CPU going over 60c ??
Why are you using chrome?
Just get 192+ GB DDR5 Ram. 1 GB per tab should be fine.