This guys got a problem with his cooling. My 14700K idles about 10 degrees C above ambient.

14700K all the way.

I’m using a NH-U12A air cooler and temperatures when gaming are around 60 degrees. You’ll get lower temperatures if you have a 360 mm AIO.

I upgraded from a 12600K to a 14700K. I also have a 4080 (and the same case). Definitely worth it as it will allow you to get another 3-4 years use of your motherboard and RAM. And don’t believe all the negative reviews - the 14700K is a very good CPU especially if APO becomes more widespread.

I’d go with the newer CPU over the older one, so 14700K.

I went from i5 7500 to i5 8600K to 9700K to 9900K to 12600K to 14700K. So whenever the fancy takes me.

14700K all day long.

Yes, the 14600K will be more than enough for 1080p.

I upgraded from a 12600K to a 14700K and for me it was worth it. From 6 cores at 4.9 GHz to 8 cores at 5.6 GHz.

15th gen at least gives you an upgrade path rather than buying into a dead platform. That’s if you can wait until next year.

No.

I updated my BIOS and installed the driver - what next?

With a 3070Ti you are likely to be GPU bottlenecked rather than CPU. So you are probably not going to much, if any, of a performance increase with the 14600K.

I updated the BIOS on my Z690 MSI board before installing my 14700K. No problem at all.

I recently switched from NH-D15 to NH-U12A with no noticeable difference.

I have my 14700K limited to 253W. Unless you bought your CPU only to run benchmarks 24/7 you won’t notice a difference in performance. It will use less power though which means less heat. When set to 253W my CPU will run at 5.5GHz in games on all cores so still a beast.

Definitely not an i9.

About 35000 with 253W on PL1 and PL2 and LLC on mode 5. Gets very toasty with a NH-U12A reaching in the 90s.

What lite load setting did you use?

I have the same MSI Z690 Pro-A motherboard. Are you trying an undervolt?