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Tom’s Hardware • Jake Roach • October 5, 2026
Intel’s Raptor Lake Refresh (aka 14th Gen) CPUs have been tough to recommend over the past several months. Although you could find them readily available online, they almost never went on sale, often selling for above the prices we saw throughout the majority of last year. As Amazon’s Big Deal Days event kicks off, Raptor Lake Refresh chips are finally seeing better prices , some of them hitting all-time lows.
Raptor Lake Refresh has remained a surprisingly relevant platform as DDR5 prices continue to push the cost of building a PC higher.
Source: Tom’s Hardware • Jake Roach • October 5, 2026