I had 10700, 10850 and then 12600 and 12600 was much much better than even 10850, it noticeable even in windows.

7400 works also, but depends on motherboard. On my I was able to get 7000 but fully stable

Buy 1500 and close this question for 10 years.

Always buy x2 from your maximum power utilization.

And which timings did you have on 13600 and now?

It depends motherboard, ram and memory controller in cpu. My friend has 13900k and ram runs on 8000 with all timings manually decreased, I have 13700k and the same ram works on 7200, but I have another motherboard

100$ difference is not “almost the same” it’s exactly 2x16GB DDR5 kit Hynix A-die

My 13700kf achieve 32185

No, I play 1440p that’s reason why I can see difference between cpu. And also it’s my kind of hobby- overlocking, so interested what I can achieve with 13700

I also have 12600kf , evga z690, ddr5 and 4090, today bought 13700k, wanted to try amd, but don’t want to change motherboard and waterblock. What I don’t like from 12600 - low memory overclock, only 6800, and cpu overclock is only 5300. Expected to get from 13700 7600 for memory and 5700 for cpu.