Havent paid attention to Intel since Raptor Lake. I owned a 12900k which I was really happy with, tho I did have a ginormous custom loop. For financial reasons, I downgraded to a prebuilt with 11700.

I am about ready to build again. I have a low profile ITX case I want to use. Is Intel a reasonable choice right now for a SFF build like this? Or will their next gen be? Basically looking for generally low power consumption/ low heat output.

Peak all-core power consumption is one thing, but idle and maxed out single core are also important.

So does Intel have or will they have something soon that has some merit over an AM5 build, particularly regarding power consumption in a SFF build?

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