It's finally a good time to buy a Raptor Lake CPU during Prime Big Deals Day

What happened

Intel's 14th-Gen chips support DDR4 and DDR5, given you have a compatible motherboard, making them an easy upgrade path if you don't already have DDR5 memory. Intel's 14th Gen Raptor Lake Refresh CPUs (the general-purpose processor at the centre of a computer) are finally getting some good discounts after a year of inconsistent pricing, and some of these chips are even dropping to all-time lows. Intel is a semiconductor and electrical company based in Santa Clara.

Intel's Raptor Lake Refresh (aka 14th Gen) CPUs have been tough to recommend over the past several months. 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.

Check out these deals at Newegg Raptor Lake Refresh has remained a surprisingly relevant platform as DDR5 prices continue to push the cost of building a PC higher. Earlier this year, Intel's Robert Hallock told Tom's Hardware Premium that Raptor Lake is a core part of Intel's strategy for "years to come," signaling a stabilization in prices and inventory.