The Intel Core i9-13900KF Raptor Lake Processor Almost Reaches 6 GHz on a US$215 B660-Based Motherboard

Mainboard ASUS ROG STRIX B660-F GAMING WIFI. Even though the Intel Core i9-13900KF processor is renowned for its ability to exceed 6 GHz, this only occurs when premium Z690 and Z790 chipsets are employed. The ASUS ROG STRIX B660-F GAMING WIFI mainboard, an economical option with a common chipset, has already hit 5. 97 GHz. It appears that Intel users may do practically extreme overclocking on boards with inexpensive mid-range prices, but AMD supporters struggle to locate affordable low-end AM5 mainboards with the low price tag the firm promised for the B650 series. The most recent such accomplishment combines the US$564 Raptor Lake Core i9-13900KF CPU with the US$215 ASUS ROG STRIX B660-F GAMING WIFI mainboard. Using the two components of hardware listed above, HWBOT user ARABUS from Hungary, who has won numerous awards and medals for placing in the top five on this well-known overclocking website, has achieved a speed of 5,974 MHz. The voltage was held constant from 1.55 to 1.57. Maximum temperature under load for the unidentified AiO cooling system was 68 degrees Celsius. The 32 GB of DDR5 memory was clocked at 5,218 MHz and used CL30.0 36-36-28 timings. All of the aforementioned factors combined with an AMD Radeon RX 6500 XT standard video card allowed for a 2,333 cb Cinebench - R23 Single Core with BenchMate score. Unfortunately, Ryzen 7000 Zen 4 CPUs require far more expensive mainboards to achieve this level of performance, which is bad news for AMD users. For instance, the AMD Ryzen 9 7950X costs $135 and needs pricey mainboards for serious overclocking, despite being around 17% slower than the overclocked Intel Core i9-13900KF listed above. Amazon customers can get the Skytech Prism II Desktop Gaming PC (Intel Core i9 12900K, 32 GB/1 TB, RTX 3090 Ti).