Intel Core i3 14100F CPU Review

How Much Does it Cost?

The Intel Core i3-14100F processor is available now on Amazon with an MSRP of £114.47, but at the time of writing it was 5% off, making it just £108.97. You can check for up-to-date stock and prices here. However, as if you’ve skipped to the last page of this review, I would suggest at least going back one page to the cost-per-frame overview, as we dive deeper into the value for money there.

Overview

So I think that pretty much sums things up. In all honesty, I think Intel need to pull it out of the bag with the next generation, because not only have they seemingly sailed on by with the lower-end parts starting with the 12th gen all the way up to what we looked at today, but they’ve also given AMD a chance to bring the fight and AMD seem to have better pricing on occasion and looking at price trackers, you can see that even with the pricing we did our calculations on today, some of the processors have actually seen lower prices from time to time so better deals can be had, and while that can be said for both AMD and Intel, I’ve personally noticed AMD being the aggressor of the two.

Moving forward into the next generation, I’d like to see more than just a bump in clock speed, and some real innovation to come along because in all honesty, things right now are pretty boring, and even making videos like this where we’re talking a margin of error improvement in most cases, it just becomes a bit stale and not exciting for us to talk about, so I really do hope that changes and we as reviewers, and you as consumers can start to get excited again.

Beyond that, is this a bad CPU? No, not really, but unless you’re buying into building a new PC from scratch, it offers little to nothing new that the last generation doesn’t already have to offer, limiting the appeal for those on an upgrade path.

On the plus side, there’s plenty of value in the market right now, with lots of CPUs from both AMD and Intel to choose from that trade blows in work and gaming tasks, but at the same time, it feels like forever ago since we had something that made us go “wow”.