Oh ok are 4 and 6 your favoured cores? I just say because I had a 13700k and core 5 and 7 were allways hotter. Then I got a 14900k and same again 5 and 7 hotter both by like 7c or so . But what I noticed is core 5 and 7 are the two favored cores on both my cpus. And even in multi core workloads those two allways get hotter. I think because they are the favourites they get work sent to them first and don’t get as much of a break.

Not sure if there is a way you can disable favoured cores I haven’t really looked into it yet.

Just out of curiosity is it core 5 and 7 that are higher?

Lies.

I’m running a 14900k on a MSI Z790 Tomahawk 13th gen board XMP 7200 mhz . All running good 👍 You just have to update to the latest bios.

Set XMP then manually change the frequency to 6400mhz. If all good just keep going up in frequency untill it either crashes then drop it back or you hit 7200mhz

Yes.

I just tested with hyperthreading off on my 13700k and I get better performance even in new titles like Alan wake and Forza Motorsport because there is more resources per core. I’m going to try with just 1 ecore per cluster see if its better but I only have 2 clusters on my cpu so I imagine it’s not going to be better.

I would go the 13900k seems they have better memory controlers so far so you could go with 7200mhz memory and not have to worry about XMP working.

How does that go for background apps in performance mode. Do they go to the P cores first then to the E cores in performance mode?

You have a problem thats not normal and you know its not the cpu because you replaced it.

They can’t Nvidia is to big if AMD put in as much as Nvidia does and it didn’t pay off with a few years they would go bankrupt.

If your going 14th gen you should go 14700k or over because of the new APO feature mainly uses 1 ecore per cluster and the 14700k has more clusters. That would be the only reason to go 14th gen for the feature in the future. Otherwise I would take the 13700k.

Its more likely your motherboard then your cpu. Just turn it down abit .