It’ll work

Is this a system used for gaming? If it is, changing to a 13600k or 14600k would get you better results

Its not worth it. If you’re gonna buy new ram too should do a mobo swap to ddr5 and a high speed ddr5 kit if you want noticeable gains

You don’t have to buy anything next gen if the performance of the 7900XTX is enough. Unless you want the best RT performance but if you wanted that you wouldn’t have bought from AMD to begin with. They can keep raising prices because of consumerism. If you always go to buy the next thing they can keep increasing prices because you’ll just keep buying.

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Update BIOS to latest, set VCCSA to 1.1v, disable memory fast boot, choose Gear 1, set memory reference frequency to 100:133, then try changing the dram frequency to what you want

12th gen ddr4 controller is rated for 3200mhz by Intel but unlocked chips can do higher unless you got really unlucky

I have a 12600kf, I’m using 1.25v system agent, 1.3v vddq, 1.45v dram to get 4000mhz working in Gear 1. I have single rank Micron rev B so it’s not too taxing on the memory controller. Dual rank would be more difficult

Yeah they would work fine. I play at 1440p too and in some games, in some parts of them, I have seen GPU not reaching max usage which I assume is because of a CPU bottleneck. GPU usage is typically 95-99% but sometimes it will drop into 80s. After my CPU and RAM overclock, that drop was significantly reduced and now GPU is almost always being utilised fully

F means no iGPU

Get the K if you can. Better have the iGPU has backup and for Quicksync which is helpful for recording, streaming, render acceleration in production apps. In gaming, there’s no performance difference

When FPS isn’t enough or it’s bottlenecking my GPU too much. I went from Ryzen 2600 to a 12600KF at its launch in Nov 2021 because the R5 2600 was holding back my 6800 XT way too much in practically every game. When I got the 12600KF the bottleneck was significantly decreased and performance was up. I play at 1440p and notice still a little bit of bottleneck in some games, GPU usage won’t always be 99%. But after I overclocked the CPU and RAM… It’s chef’s kiss immaculate

Need to upgrade GPU now if I want more performance, especially after seeing games like Alan Wake 2 and Cyberpunk RT being a little problematic with this card. Waiting for 40 Super cards and Arrow Lake

Yes, it is true

14600K. There is no doubt