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- From packaging to operation, perfection. - Amazing speeds, easy tunes/OC - Really cannot get over that packaging, I felt I discovered an alien artifact. - Simple LGA 1151 design install is a breeze. - Multi-tasks multiple games like a beast (if you are into MMOs)

I really think this is the sweet spot for price / performance satisfaction if you are going to primarily use your PC for gaming with other heavy workloads too. I could have bought the 13900K but decided to save the $200 for when GPU's come down in price. Check out my pictures. This is a sweet CPU! Do your research if you are doing a higher end build and want to eek out top cooling performance. I got the Thermaltake anti-bend pressure plate. Do your research! I have the proper tools and I think the Thermaltake plate is the way to go over the Thermal Grizzly plate. I like the Thermaltake solution because it will press up against the motherboard when you replace the stock Intel ILM. I have a torque screw driver and used 1-2 ft inches of torque for the pressure plate. There is no need to kill it on screwing the plate in. Take note of how easy the screws come off of the factory ILM when you remove them. Your cooler is going to be putting the pressure on the CPU and the anti-bend plate is just there to hold the cpu in place so your cooler can put more pressure on the CPU. Again research why the anti-bend plate is a thing on the 1700 Intel socket cpu's. If you are going for all out cooling performance, I would consider it and know what you are doing. Stock, the CPU gets 12500 on the benchmark in CPU-z and honestly runs pretty cool and this is with the ASUS multi core enhancement turned on in the bios of an ASUS Strix z790-E MB which I paired the 13700K with. However, I'm running a custom loop setup / EKWB for the CPU. There is a good video on YouTube from JJ at ASUS that goes over the overclocking callabilities of the 1700 socket 12/13th gen CPU's. I think the 13th gen is the way to go because of the much better IMC (integrated memory controller) in the CPU. You will do far better getting higher MT/s ram to work with the 13th gen and the z790 chipset IMHO. The AI overclocking that ASUS has in their superior bios has really come a long way. I think people should NOT get hung up on pinning all the P cores to a single speed. Efficiency is the way to go for real workloads and gaming. I.e. you can use the ASUS AI bios to overclock and get 6.2 ghz on one or two cores dynamically based on your load. Anyway, the 13th gen CPUs and the z690 / z790 chipsets are the bee's knees if you ask me. You get the raw, scorching single thread performance with the amazing Intel thread scheduling across the P and E cores. It's all very, very fast at the end of the day if you take advantage of all the features of your build. The hype of these CPU's generating a ton of heat with huge wattage draw is way over blown and the motherboard manufactures are to blame when they turn on the over clocking options by default. ASUS does this with the multi core enhancement. If you run these CPUs at total stock clocks and wattage draw limits, they run very cool. But if you want to push the limits you can and you should know what you are doing with the cooling. Anyway, you won't be disappointed with any of the 13th gen Intel CPUs, but I still thing the 13700K is the sweet spot for my needs. The 13600K would have left me wanting and if I'm honest with myself I just don't need the 13900K extra E cores and additional threads. You could argue that paying the $200 premium for the 13900K is worth it just based on resale value down the road. The top of the line consumer / enthusiast CPU's tend to demand more $$$ down the road. Have fun! The reviews on the 13th gen CPUs speak for themselves! Outstanding / crazy performance!

I got this on Black Friday for about $275 and it's one awesome CPU. With my liquid cooled pump, I can get it to reach 5k ghz no problem! But I felt that was to much so I have it clocked to 4.5k ghz. Don't go cheap on a PSU for this.

My pc is running smooth

Great price, performance. Runs cool. Upgrade path to intel 13th gen if you want. Great for mini-ITX builds or Home Theater PC's.

-24 PCIE Lanes -Cheaper then launch price 5950X with a huge boost in performance - Supports IGPU for easier trouble shooting should problems arise in the future -supports some older cooling solutions from x570 boards. -Very fast CPU out of the box with no overclocking -16 Cores 24 Threads -Works very well with enthusiast graphic cards ( 3090, 3090 ti 4090, etc) -Excellent for productivity -Able to use PCIE 5.0 storage albeit with the proper motherboard -Competes with Intel so you are no longer forced to only have 1 option

Decent CPU for starting a new gaming rig on a budget

I will definitely recommend this here cpu by intel especially for anyone who is looking to upgrade they older system that have 8 gens or even older intel socket or just looking to switch form amd.

Works as intended, packaged nicely, very clean!