Just asked.

https://www.reddit.com/r/intel/s/dWTgYuiHzU

That’s a cooling problem. Bad contact or dead AIO.

You would have to jump all the way to DDR5 8000 to see that big of a gain in anything. (and most games still wouldn’t be that much)

Not worth it unless you just want the best possible performance.

Yea, you don’t want to push modern games to just the p-cores. Here’s a pretty extreme example with Starfield that I found during testing. Check out the bottom result in the graph which is with e-cores disabled.

https://www.overclock.net/threads/overclocking-raptor-lake-refresh-14900k-14700k-14600k-etc-results-bins-and-discussion.1807439/page-246#post-29264559

I would go with whatever is on the motherboard QVL list. Might also cross check this against the motherboard list of the memory manufacturer if they have one.

I think generally you don’t want to go above 6400 with 64Gb due to stability issues. It varies depending on the mobo and quality of the CPU IMC.

I’d get 14th gen if you are a gamer. Unclear right now if Intel APO will be useful in the future, but it does add a lot of performance to the 2 games it currently supports. And it only works on 14th gen.

Just try it. Won’t hurt it. Just may not post. 14th gen is so close to 13th that it might still work at least enough to flash the normal way.

Well I only run it at high RPM for stress testing. Running it at 1000-1200 RPM is enough to stay below 40C for my daily use, mostly gaming. So it’s not loud at all.

A fan even running at 3k RPM directly on the dimms won’t get you below 40C. At least not with the Gskill 2x24 kit I have. Best I can do during stress testing is 41-42C (25C ambient) at 8200C36 and 1.52v VDD. This is with a 3k Noctua Industrial.

Only possible way I see a big jump is in gaming if Intel adds a bigger cache to counter AMD x3D.