Just wait for something meaningfully better. I put a 13700k and now a 14700k in my system and frankly, if I hadn’t sold a pc to necessitate building another one, it was entirely a waste of time. Gained a few fps but spent like 3 days messing with clock speeds and voltage settings so it wouldn’t run at way-too-hot all the time.
In a MSI Z690 Force mobo. Enhanced core clocks off and LLC mode 3 or 4 (I forget atm) was necessary to get the cpu (14700k) to behave acceptably. This is on a 360AIO, too.
Old temps were high 20s at idle to low 40s in game. Initially I was 45 idle, 70-80s in game. Now it’s low 30s idle and mid-40s in game again.
That all said, if you find a smoking deal on a 13700k, sure, I DID notice some improvement in 1% lows (3440x1440, max settings when possible), but not worth all the BS.
Just wait for something meaningfully better. I put a 13700k and now a 14700k in my system and frankly, if I hadn’t sold a pc to necessitate building another one, it was entirely a waste of time. Gained a few fps but spent like 3 days messing with clock speeds and voltage settings so it wouldn’t run at way-too-hot all the time.
In a MSI Z690 Force mobo. Enhanced core clocks off and LLC mode 3 or 4 (I forget atm) was necessary to get the cpu (14700k) to behave acceptably. This is on a 360AIO, too.
Old temps were high 20s at idle to low 40s in game. Initially I was 45 idle, 70-80s in game. Now it’s low 30s idle and mid-40s in game again.
That all said, if you find a smoking deal on a 13700k, sure, I DID notice some improvement in 1% lows (3440x1440, max settings when possible), but not worth all the BS.