Absolutely agree. I have an asus Rog z690 Maximus extreme which I’ve used with a 12th a 13th and a 14th gen and have had no issues whatsoever. Now with the 14th gen my memory is very stable At 7000 and OC using the intel XTU Ai assistant which only works for 14th gen is giving me 6.2 ghz all p cores and 4.6 ghz e cores with no issues at all again. I only run 64GB of RAM but that’s more than enough for me

Agree with everybody, would go for the 14th gen. You could also look into a high end 13th gen, they should have dropped in price, like a 13900, unless you happened to use one of the only two games supported by APO currently.

This feature wouldn’t make someone buy a 14th gen. I have one and it’s extremely hard to get it to even work and it only supports a couple of games, maybe in the future it will be something but for this gen it doesn’t do much at all, I thought that was also his point in the review. Only reason I got the 14th gen is because is basically a 13900KS but a lot cheaper. For some reason the 13900-KS are way over priced and the 14th gen gets literally the same performance as far as all reviews I’ve seen and tests.

Now having said that, I agree that if there’s not a hardware issue preventing them to allow a feature on prior gen’s (specially ones that are on the same socket type). it’s even if not from a practical standpoint but from a sales and marketing position such a stupid move.

Still starting with the next gen the hardware will be so different and better than who knows what they will do. But I’m not concerning myself with that since I don’t plan to upgrade for a few generations.

You won’t have any issues. Windows 11 is just optimized to use the E cores as well the P cores more efficiently. But doubt the difference in gaming will be that big. It is my understanding that it is not until 14th gen that intel is starting to optimize or even use E cores for gaming. Before a lot of people would turn them off if the main purpose of the system was gaming.

Having said that and being an early windows 11 adopter, it has come a long way and a lot of the issues from the beginning have been fixed