For how cheap they are, for 5-10c it’s totally worth it to me. I went with Thermalright paired with Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut extreme and an Arctic Liquid Freezer 420mm AIO. Temps 83-85c under load and 30-45c in game.

Go DDR5, it’ll be worth it for up to 15-30 fps in games. I recommend Cast latency over raw speed. Look up LTT DDR5 video on YouTube!

Shouldn’t air cool a 14700k good luck.

5600 CL28

Thermal throttling while not at full power draw probably due to cpu cooler not mounted properly or not an adequate cpu cooler.

Use to work like that with AMD like back in 2012. But nowadays for the best performance and stability per dollar goes to Intel CPU paired with Nvidia GPU. Don’t use AMD unless you want RAM problems and driver problems.