New Intel 13th gen cpus - anyone buying one?

[turbot1984]

7600X slightly faster ST? Not much in it though. Both great gaming cpu's for £250

 

[Lustral]

7600X slightly faster ST? Not much in it though. Both great gaming cpu's for £250

yeah agreed, can't go wrong with either a 7600 non X or a 13500 at this price point. It is a noticeable uplift from the 5600X system I was using until a few days ago. Generally seeing better FPS on my 4080 across the board.

 

[Tetras]

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Batters the 7600/X in productivity, just behind a 7700/X with heavy multi-threaded load (the 7600/X is faster in mainly single-thread productivity like Photoshop), but convincingly beaten in games, with generally inconsistent results that make it a bit slower, or a bit faster than a 12600K.

 

[i386dx]

Very tempted by 13700k, even at stock the multicore jump over my 12400F is insane - the passmark is literally double. Unfortunately, I'm not convinced that the VRMs on B660m-D4 are up to it

 

[Game]

so the rest of the 13th gen chips are out. very well priced imo. something like the 13500f for £240? sounds decent bang for buck.

thoughts?

im on a 10400f at the mo with a 3060ti , seriously thinking about upgrading to one of these.

depends what you do but my 10400f with rx6700xr crushes mw2 at 1440p

going to hold of for a while longer get a full 4+ years from it unless I pass it onto the kids

 

[Tetras]

B660m-D4 are up to it

Which one is that? Asus B660M-A? I'd say you'd be fine in games, according to TPU's review, I think the average power consumption was only 88 watts, but would I want to run longer-term productivity loads like blender? Umm, no, not unless it was limited to a 65 watt profile (in which case, you might as well buy a 13700 non-K). That said, if you're buying it for gaming then the 12400F is generally more than fine anyway.

 

[dave28]

I have the 13700KF, i could not believe it when I was playing the original Dead Space and it was only using 16w.
Im sure my old 5600x was using 50w. I guess if a game is very easy to run it just uses the E cores.

 

[i386dx]

Which one is that? Asus B660M-A? I'd say you'd be fine in games, according to TPU's review, I think the average power consumption was only 88 watts, but would I want to run longer-term productivity loads like blender? Umm, no, not unless it was limited to a 65 watt profile (in which case, you might as well buy a 13700 non-K). That said, if you're buying it for gaming then the 12400F is generally more than fine anyway.

Yes, sorry my board is B660M-A WiFi D4. You're right, it would *probably* be perfectly fine. It's a multi-use machine, most of the time it's used for the purposes of my self employment, literally MS Word - but there's a 3080 in there for the odd bit of Elite Dangerous (and soon Starfield) and I do compile the odd video for customers, but we're talking no more than once a month. At this time, as you point out the 12400F is doing a great job, probably will leave the system as-is until RTX 50xx and see how the land lies.

 

[Tetras]

Yes, sorry my board is B660M-A WiFi D4.

As far as I know that's the best one (biggest heatsinks and most substantial VRM of the lower-end MATX PRIME boards), so I think you'd good to go, if you do decide to buy it.