The Intel i9-13900KS CPU installed easily in an Asus Tuf Z790-Plus Wifi D4 motherboard. While having a kettle that can heat to 100c is fantastic, it’s not nearly as desirable in a CPU – although, like I said, for the majority of gaming things you’re likely to be doing, the CPU isn’t likely to be running at max temperatures for sustained periods of time and I noticed it dropped back to “standard” temperatures as soon as the load eased off from benchmarking/stress testing. Temperatures were not an issue for any of the gaming I did – even with all the settings maxed out – but under benchmarking and stress testing it hit 100c very quickly, at which point the thermal throttling kicked in. On that note, one thing I noticed was that my twin-fan Corsair AIO cooler wasn’t quite enough to stop the CPU thermal throttling under max loads. The benchmark results were a marked improvement over anything I’ve ever used before – 3DMark’s CPU processor test scored a result of 16,576 while Intel’s XTU benchmark returned a score of 12,664 marks which seemed about right given the motherboard, DDR4 ram, CPU settings, GPU, case airflow and cooling system in my rig. I’m not an overclocker, so a simple plug-and-play with first-party tuning/config software is exactly what I’m after and Intel have delivered it here.
The Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) allows for simple, one-click tuning, which is the only tweaking I’ve done to this CPU. Intel have been very upfront about the fact this is an enthusiast’s chip designed for people looking to squeeze as much performance as they can out of their CPU The Intel Extreme Tuning Utility allows for one-click overclocking of the i9-13900KS CPU. Installation (in this case on an Asus TUF Z790-Plus Wifi D4) was straightforward – exactly like installing any other CPU – and I though The main difference between the i9-13900K and the KS is that the KS has a slighter higher boost clock speed (6GHz vs the 5.8GHz of the K unit), and a slightly higher power draw – the KS draws 150W rather than 125 of the K model. The Intel i9-13900KS CPU is incredibly powerful, with 24 threads and a 6GHz boost clock speed.
As the name suggests, it’s a 13 th generation “K” series i9 chipset, with the “KS” suffix indicating extra performance over the “regular” version (the full tech specs are in the hyperlink in the previous paragraph).
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