Customer Ratings & Reviews

Great processor with amazing performance. Unfortunately DDR5 has some growing pains with gaming and using 4 DIMs with XMP. It will likely (in some cases like with CoD - certainly) cause games and even your to crash. You can easily fix us. We’re just using two or dims with the motherboard and you’ll be fine. I also recently switched from a 7950 X to this because of the boot issues at those processors I’ve had for the longest time they graded give me performance but I definitely recommend this if you don’t want to worry about new generation adopter issues.

I use my desktop for everything, including light office work, CAD software, complex computations/programming tasks, and gaming. This CPU has been able to handle absolutely everything with no issue. Being Intel's flagship processor for the 13th gen. that's expected, however. I do use a watercooling setup but haven't noticed the CPU running particularly hot or consuming more power than I'd expect. Overall a great processor!

It runs HOT. Like, super hot. But if you cool it right, tweak the voltages a bit, and use good thermal paste, this processor is a BEAST.

Its fast, can get a little hot be sure you have adequate cooling. I purchased a Be Quiet AIO.

Better then I expected. Just need to be aware of overheating. So a high performance aio cooler is also recommend.

[Employee of bestbuy] Best cpu I’ve used, people say it runs hot that depends on the set up mine runs cool but i went overkill on the cooling I’m told.

Absolutly amazing powerhouse of a CPU. I have had no problems and no problems with heat while running a 360 AIO. You can't go wrong!

I built a gaming rig for a cousin using this cpu when they launched it and was surprised how much more performance it had over my 8086k based rig that was reaching it's 5 year upgrade cycle. I waited until just before the "14th Gen" launch to pick this up for my personal build and couldn't be happier since the newest chips don't have as much value in my eyes. I have seen a 20 percent uplift in performance in games and nearly 4x boost in my photo and video software!

Its awesome and fast but make sure you have a great cooling system. It gets pretty hot.

Excellent performance. If you start to bottle neck, you are likely looking in the wrong place. There is an issue with the TDP draw being set too high out of the box, but easily rectifiable and man oh man does it work. Serious performance. At this price point, you likely are less worried about value and more about raw performance and it delivers.

This processor is extremely powerful but also gets hot fast. Make sure to get a very good cooler and/or undervolt the cpu.

Great CPU, make sure to run a bottleneck test prior to purchasing, this works well with my GPU and whole system.

[Employee of bestbuy] Overclocking is super easy and the processor is very fast, games run with ease

I impulse bought the 13900k day of launch. Received the CPU today OCT 25th and will say this. Coming from a 12900KS that has a all P-CORE OC of 5.3Ghz I did NOT see a Beneficial FPS increase going to the 13900K in 1440p. I am using a RTX 3090 TI. Perhaps with a 4090 you will in 1080P. So me personally I wouldn’t recommend getting a 13900K IF you OWN a 12900K or KS SKU. Otherwise, if you have 11th gen or later you can’t go wrong with this upgrade. If going with 13900K I’d suggest going with DDR5 over DDR4. It is true that ddr4 is cheaper and you won’t see a difference in gaming from DDR4 to DDR5 but your overall windows experience will feel much more snappier and quick response times. (PS: it is worth noting you WILL NEED Windows 11 to take advantage of this chip.) As a tech enthusiast who wants the top end SKU and have bragging privileges I think this will be my personal first time thinking about actually returning this CPU.

Expensive but powerful. Running at 5.6 Ghz stable, using a corsair h150i the temp is under 61°C.

BEST PROCESSER ON THE MARKET. But it does run ver very hot so I would reccomend a contact frame and a good cooler.

Amazing product and great processor does hot under load

Top notch speeds and flexibility, if you can manage the heat. This will get hot, so get a large cooler if you go with this!

Most powerful processor for gaming, handles anything you throw at it like a champ. MW2 coming from a 12900K went up around 20-40 FPS.

ITS HOT SO HOT BUT SO FAST SO FAST. Top of the line for 6 months and now its time to upgrade.