April 9Apr 9 Hi all. Seeking some advice. I have recently purchased a new motherboard. ASRock Intel 1700 Z790 Riptide WiFi, 90-MXBMD0-A0UAYZI am looking for a cpu that I can put in to the build. I mainly use for the arrs and will use file flows with an arc b580. I was thinking of the i5 14600 chip but one am unsure of the version whether a K or F or KF or just blank, or should I look at another intel variant. Whilst cost is no issue I don’t want to have an overkill. Just to say I will be migrating over my original unraid server that has 8 HDD 2 HDD parity drives and 2 NVME drives. The existing build is an AMD 3900x
April 9Apr 9 14600 is a decent chip for everything. since you already have a GPU you could get an F variant to save a few dollars, but having no igpu can be annoying for troubleshooting or when you want to offload some action from the B580 to something lower power for background use. performance difference between base 14600 and 14600K for a home server build isnt particularly relevant unless you need a lot of single thread high clock performance for things like game servers etc, even then its not a huge difference.I'm on a 14600K (it was cheaper than the non-K at the time due to a sale, and I wanted an IGPU since I didnt have PCIE space free for a dGPU) and just have it power limited in the Bios just a bit (PL1 is set to 80W rather than 125W, PL2 is currently 180W which I think is stock for that chip) to keep it happy as it is a chip on the caution list for potentially nuking itself.More than enough grunt and core count for what I do with it, and I have 41 containers currently running doing moderately heavy media operations, image recognition, audio recognition, hosted cloud services with a dozen users etc. Edited April 9Apr 9 by Faceman
April 10Apr 10 On 4/9/2026 at 3:37 AM, g4defender said:I was thinking of the i5 14600You can use a 14600K - its much cheaper and you can set the max. Power to 65W at the BIOS (if you like) 👍
April 10Apr 10 Author I actually just purchased the 14600k as I had stock issues here in OZ, and as u said it was cheaper than the plain 14600.I will now play around with the BIOS to see where I can limit the power.Thanks for the input. Edited April 10Apr 10 by g4defender Solved
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