Intel Core I9 (13th Gen) i9-13900KS Tetracosa-core (24 Core) 3.20 GHz Processor 6GHZ OVERCLOCKING- Heatsink Not 13th Gen

I upgraded from a 12900K to this 13900KS. Some might say the performance gain is minimal...10%-20% FPS at best. To me, those numbers are huge. Weather they are accurate or not I can't say as I am not into this hobby like that. What I can say is this, I have noticed a massive difference. Especially when running cinebench or 3D Mark. I paired this with Strix 4090 OC, Strix Z790-E and a crucial T700 Gen 5 SSD and the performance is amazing.

But you are paying for that too. No complaints at to its performance on windows 11.

At the time of this review, this is the top of the line for gaming CPU’s. The first ever chip to hit 6.0Ghz out of the box. It’s amazing. I have no trouble with anything running or processing on this. Paired with 128GB of ram and a 4090, you can conquer any game or task that the average person could ever need. If you can get one, do it! Just avoid the inflated prices though.

Very fast for any application and gaming. With liquid 3 fan cooling system, never gets above 50 deg C in my setup. Get over 250 fps in WOT at 4k res with all graphics settings at max

Works just fine, really fast, lots of cores. With all the cores running, they will run up to 100 C and throttle back on clock speed with pretty much any standard CPU cooler. The consensus seems to be that this is limited by the thermal connection inside the CPU case between the actual chip and the upper surface which contacts your cooling block. In other words, the cores can overheat even if your cooling system can maintain the upper surface of the CPU at room temperature. You don't want the cores running hot at 99 C for any length of time, and so you really need to tune the CPU clock speed and the voltages with a motherboard that permits overclock tuning. With a good standard CPU cooler, I found it's possible to run continuously with a 4.7 GHz clock on all 24 cores and keep the core temperatures below 85 C.