Have i9-11900K, does everything I need it to do. People who don’t need a computer for work and upgrade every year or two baffle me.

Have you considered that the vast majority of users don’t use their computers primarily for gaming?

If it’s soldered to the board, as much as you can afford

Quit watching YouTube videos about performance benchmarks and go play some games with your overpowered system, man. And turn off stat monitoring, it’s messing with your anxiety. Your PC is among the top 1% worldwide.

Hmmmm I find that Intel CPUs going back at least 6 generations hold their value when compared to AMD. I don’t know if that’s due to iGPU or consumer sentiment. Best price to performance in the last few cycles has always been 2 generation old CPUs on sale on Black Friday. For example i5-12600K is now $153 and 12700K is $211. i3s and i5s in the past 6 gens, K and non-K, all hover around the $100+ price point used and not uncommon to see them go $130+. So your best price to performance is actually a K chip, at least for the next 3-4 days. If you’re sorride about power draw, you can always manipulate power limits in BIOS, as well as turn Turbo Boost off.

That’s only a question that you can answer. With 14700K you get 4 more e-cores than the 13700K. Is $50 for 4 more e-cores worth it to you? What would you spend the money on if it weren’t being spent on e-cores? Do you value 4 e-cores more than that?

Both DRAM and CPUs can only run at stock speed on H-series boards

Only time you should use a 120mm AIO is in an ITX if you don’t have room for an air cooler, imo

You could probably get good cheap DDR4 and run it in gear 1 and performance would be comparable to slower DDR5. Although DDR5 has really come down in price and is competitive. I just bought a 2x16GB kit of Teamgroup T-Create 5600 for $75. There are 64GB (2x32) kits of T-Create available in US for $155 at Newegg. At least in the US it is becoming more and more cost effective to choose DDR5 for the DDR4/DDR5 12-13 gen boards.

Buildzoid’s What DDR5 to buy June 2023
Even if you’re not a “hardcore overclocker” you may find value in Buildzoid’s RAM and motherboard roundup videos.

No. Where did you hear that? Heat is generated from Watts. The power draw of the 7800X3D is less than the 13700K.

7800X3D 8 cores 16 threads TDP 120W Actual power draw ~86W 13700K 16 cores 24 threads TDP 125W Max Boost 253W avg power draw 133W peak draw 250W

Tom’s Hardware 7800X3D avg max power draw

Intel i7-13700K power draw

The 7800X3D is waaaaaay more efficient and therefore cooler than the 13700K