Im still thinking about switching to Intel and obviously every single review mentions how hot this CPU can get. Thing is: This is mostly at STOCK SETTINGS and in BENCHMARKS. How about real world usage? Can anyone share his experience with this CPU and with reasonable powerlimits/undervolting? Im also planning to use my aircooler, a Noctua u12A. My goal is to keep the PC quiet, would this be possible with aircooling and a bit of fiddling in BIOS? Im cool as long as I could keep the RPM under 1000 much like I do right now on my Ryzen CPU.
Intel cpus are incredibly easy to cool, but at the same time it left without any power limit they will literally draw up to 400 watts in multithreaded workloads. I’m running a U12A on a 14900k and it works like a charm, but again, it depends on what your goal is. By maxing the fans and letting the cpu get to 100c I get around 43k in cbr23. That’s both loud and hot. But on the other hand, dropping to a score of 40k will bring the temps down to 80c and the fans are just chilling.