Intel Core i7-13700K: What Real Users Say About Heat and Stability

Sending this deal to my worst enemy.

Not a day goes by where I don't think that my 13700k isn't fucking with me.

13700k gaming: hard to justify premium with ~9% gain over 13600k. Worthwhile choice over 13600k for production/professional use.

The 7700x just doesn't even look competitive against the 13700k. The 7700x never should've been $400, even at the black friday $350 price its questionable due to the big MT performance difference and total platform cost.

If I had to go intel I'd rather just get one of these 12th gen CPUs and not have to worry about my chip dying at some point.

I haven't had a single issue with my 13700kf.......yet.

Was on the fence on a 12700k or a 13700k upgrade — Microcenter has both at heavy discount. Guess this cements the 13700k being worth the extra $30. Coming from an 8600k.

They only just recently actually discovered the real cause of degradation. All the previous updates were just bandaid fixes. Personally, I would avoid for probably a couple more months.

Wait a month so you don't have to resell your 13700k when you later convince yourself you should have waited for the 14700k.

The extra cores will obviously help in fully multithreaded workloads, but not in other applications that are not. Clock speed is just barely higher so you'll never notice that.

All the motherboards should get the latest BIOS which is supposed to be the last update to fix the issue.

Yes its a great chip for gaming. I have one in my gaming PC and one in my work PC. I upgraded from i9 12900k and its been a good move. The only issue you will have is other people telling you "should have gone for AMD" lol. Dont listen to them, you chose well.

Hard to argue against the 13600K or 13700K if productivity is the name of the game for you. Just all around good performance no matter what you're doing.

Shit, that's actually kinda good, compared against the 13600K. But, aside from the silly Intel CPU problems, I think the 13700K is one of the bigger losers from having 14th gen release, because the 14700K is actually the one CPU that improved over its predecessor by getting an E-core count bump.

Makes no sense to buy now — the 14700 will be a worthy replacement of the 13700k. It will be pretty much a 13900k.

Good buy for 3440x1440p 120hz gaming? Gaming benchmark of 7800x3d vs 13700k seems to indicate this is only slightly worse at 1440p to 4k at ~$180 less than the 7800x3d right now. Power draw is worse but with undervolt should be pretty safe from instability at least.

Personally, I'd rather just undervolt and set an AI VR limit on a 13th/14th Gen. A reigned-in Raptor Lake chip is still going to outperform an Alder Lake chip by a good margin.

13700k is basically tied with the 7700/7700x for gaming, but the 13700k has over double the power consumption. No undervolt can possibly get the 13700k to have even remotely similar power consumption without sacrificing massive performance.

If you're doing any productivity work the 13700k is far superior imo.

I went from a 6700 to a 13700. God damn what a difference. Was expecting a big jump but not this.

13700k is a extremely good processor if you can tame temps and willing too do bit power limiting. I moved over from amd that I have supported for last 8 years but I have say i am really happy too moved over intel platform. Chip great for gaming, x3d would of course be better but awesome have productivity side, seems fairly reliable from my testing in last 3 months.

Made the same upgrade, 7700k to 13700k. My dude, you're in for a WORLD of difference. The performance increase is actually quite ridiculous.

With a -0.100mv offset, power limit of 253w, stock clocks — both my 13700k and my buddy's 13900k idle at 32c and 65c at 100% load. Don't know about scores but your temps are way off stock.

It can go anywhere from 0.8 GHz up to the highest frequency you can run it at before it becomes too hot or unstable, since it is unlocked. If you select high performance it will lock the frequency at the highest and stay there.

If your like me and bought the 13700KF when it released in 2022 and are still using it now, dont stress about needing to upgrade anytime soon. I originally bought this cpu to future proof and with how things are going now my cpu probably won't be a bottleneck for anything for another good 3 years, still top of the line CPU, TO THIS DAY!

Make sure you turn off Turbo Boost in your BIOS, otherwise you'll get near 100° temps all the time. No need to buy expensive fans. Turbo Boost off, my max temp is 62° even under heavy load.

I have 13700 and it got hot as hell with stock intel cooler but installed a Huge Dual Fan Dual tower heatsink and now temps are low. Also if your 13700 gets hot it will reduce FPS or GHZ to protect itself so a powerful cooling solution isnt optional otherwise you will have reduced performance.

I've paired a 13700k and 14900k with a 4090; worked great. I cannot suggest Intel unless you're okay with the potential future RMA and you are aware of updating the bios. If you're okay with that, you can get a great deal on cpu right now and a warranty until like 2029.

Great deal, great processor. Outside of MC, doubt it'll get cheaper until the refresh coming in a few months.

I get around 30k on an asrock ddr4 board. Also 13700k with Arctic 3600mm non RGB. I dont install any tuning utility or fan control in windows — in BIOS I set XMP Profile 1, Gear1, and CoolerType: 360-420mm AIO.

I just bought a 13700k and while I have some anxiety that I should have waited for the 14700k, I think the real big jump comes later when they reduce the die size.

Rock solid processor for gaming. I'm still running it on my 1.5 yr old gaming pc.

I'm onto my 2nd 14700K since the first one showed signs of degredation. Never overclocked and never pushed hard other than one benchmark when I installed the chip. I want to believe so badly that they've fixed the issues, but they brought out something like 5 or 6 patches and each time claimed it was fixed.

13th gen is still risky despite the updates. Ceteris paribus it's the better chip but with the stability issues I would only really risk it if this was a work PC that you absolutely needed Intel for and only cared about single threaded performance. Otherwise go with the safe option or ideally Ryzen.

My 13900 non K is 97% as fast as the K but sips power and stays cool. It came with an oem fan and it's been running for years. Cheaper too. I use mine with the oem cooler and run windows 11 with 4 vms. I never experienced the bug issues with it.

Would be perfect for a high end emulation machine.

13700k here with 360 AIO. Mine gets 32800 in Cinebench, max temp 95C. I just turned on AI OC on my Asus Z790E motherboard, I didn't bother fine tuning in Intel Extreme.

Out of the box these new CPUs are set to run up to 95-100C and stay there. While that's not an issue with the life of the CPU, it's a pain to have to handle that much heat. I would get your multipliers set where you want them and start undervolting.

I realized I had not updated my BIOS so that helped quite a bit. I also decided to undervolt by 0.1 and now its capping at 85c at max load! My score also reached 30000 for the first time!

My sorry ass thinking 250$ for a 13700K was a good deal.

Motherboard updates took care of a lot of the instability issues seen in the 13x00s.

The problem has been fixed and you get an extended warranty to boot. Anyway, I have a 13700k and everythings all good here.