I upgraded from 8700k and I don’t want to upgrade but my pc was already asking for performance in my current work. I felt like I’m already losing money because of it so I upgraded to something I can replace in a year or two (13700 paired with b760) both are cheap and way faster. I practically saved 60% of time vs my old system. Less of a headache and more free time. Know your reasons for upgrading.

Save it. If you’re going to upgrade, just go for a 13600k, then sell your 12400

Important question is: what will you do with it? Gaming, work? For work, get the 14700k. Gaming, 14700kf. Ultra budget, 13700k/kf/non k paired with b760/z690.

Another option: If you’re a 3D artist, just go 14700k and add the extra budget to the gpu. If ultra budget, Even a 13700 non k will do the task for 25% slower than 13900k in multithreaded. So it won’t be as slow when you’re actually working as not all cores are utilized. Pair it with a b760. Add the budget to ram and go 64gb.

Don’t upgrade if you don’t need to. If you just really want to spend money, buy 14900k and/or do custom watercooling 😜

It’s enough. Go for galahad 2 trinity 240. Or something with lcd. If you want rgb and still can see your beautiful mobo, liquid cooling. It still has a slight advantage over high end aircooler when it comes to temp. Go for an aircooler if you are afraid of water and much cheaper and most and foremost, your mobo is ugly to look at. Either will be enough to cool it.

If I’m gonna keep the same pc for 5 years, I’d go for 14700k or 14900k instead and a z790 refresh motherboard. I want a board with wifi 7 10gb lan port and gen 5 ssd (this one not sure as it cuts the bandwidth for gpus)

Other option is amd 7950x3d or 7900x with x670 motherboard

Just for comparison: I have the 13700 (non-K) with b760 motherboard and if you stick to intel 65w tdp, it’s cold. But when you turn on the performance mode maxed to 90c, it goes up to 93c 5ghz-5.2ghz all p cores. Everything “cooled” by 240mm aio and with a contact frame. I bet it will reach the 100c if I disable the temp limit completely. The max power I get is 215-260w. And yes, I use it for work everyday and it reaches that temp. But intel made the processor to run that hot so no biggie.

Do you have the money to upgrade your cpu and ok if it’s already the deadend platform? Yes.

Wanting the highest uplift bang for buck upgrade? No, wait for end of 2024.