Yeah. SST. Still cheaper.
I already got Strix D4. Thanks for the suggestion though.

Z690M-Plus for more budget CPUs.

Warranty update (5 years)
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/sup...processors.html

Intel® Core™ processors (13th gen)	Intel® Core™ processors (14th gen)
i9-13900KS	i9-14900KS
9-13900K	i9-14900K
i9-13900KF	i9-14900KF
i9-13900F	i9-14900F
i9-13900	i9-14900
i7-13700K	i7-14700K
i7-13700KF	i7-14700KF
i7-13790F	i7-14790F
i7-13700F	i7-14700F
i7-13700	i7-14700
i5-13600K	i5-14600K
i5-13600KF	i5-14600KF

Play Unreal Engine 5 games like Wukong, First Descendant, Tekken 8. If it crash a lot, RMA it.

Make sure you update BIOS first.

Try this method


Some UE5 games are known to be buggy and crash by itself, unless your running lower demanding online shooters like Fortnite.

I got a question, wondering to ask. I sent my RMA'd 13700K for claiming warranty, and since then I have yet to receive it due to possible stock issues for 13th Gen Intel.

Shop offered me upgrade to 14700K for RM180, and it's new stock (shop could be lying but I have no clue). Should I take it or just wait for the 13700K from the distributor?

I RMA'd both my 13700K and my MSI Z790 Carbon Wifi. CPU was showing symptoms of completely different errors that I've never seen before, and I've been building systems for years. Multiple BSOD's with different stop codes, ranging from memory erros to PAGE_FAULT_IN_NONPAGED_AREA. It was frustrating and annoying as heck to troubleshoot.

Since it's still within warranty, might as well claim it. I did ahead and went with an AMD system for the time being, and since then I have never experience weird issues other than the slow boot times which I got used to pretty quick.

I guess I was one of the unlucky ones with the bad batch of 13th Gen Intel CPUs.

I do agree, but from my experience with the 13700K, it peaks around 80c - 90c, which is probably not ideal but it's under stress during streaming + everything else I run in the background. Worked well for a year, then my CPU kicked the bucket sometime in June.

I also have that Thermalright Socket mount thing, so it wouldn't bend the board and socket. Room temps around 24c in ambient, so it's not that bad. But yeah, I need a 360 AIO at some point.

Probably you have a good flowing case and better ambient temps. I never had this much issue with Intel 9th Gen. And that still runs to this day.

You can google it but initially was 2 microcodes needed, but do update bios if there are newer ones after those.