The socket swap is coming with Arrow Lake, as Intel leaves behind the LGA 1700 socket we ... Not only is DDR4 much cheaper than DDR5, the motherboards that support DDR4 are cheaper, as well.

The LGA 1700 motherboards for the i7-14700K are cheaper than AM5 boards required for the Ryzen 7 7700X. Not to mention, you can also pair the i7-14700K with DDR4 memory instead of DDR5 to save ...