Intel Core i9 13900KS Review

Test Setup

Intel Core i9-13900KS
MSI MPG Z790 Carbon WiFi V1.10 Bios
Corsair Veangeance RGB DDR5 6000Mhz
Kingston Fury Renegade 6000MHz 32GB
Nvidia RTX 2080 Ti
Sabrent Rocket 2TB
Corsair 5000T
Corsair RM1000i
Corsair H170i 420
Windows 11

 

Clock Speeds

The default Core i9-13900KS looks like this. But we know you’re here to discover if it really can push on to 6 GHz.

  

To which the answer is yes. As you can see. It will boost one or two of the cores to 6 GHz without any user intervention. This should have some benefits in our tests, although we’re not expecting it to dominate at a hilariously high level because it is just some cores that boost this high, usually two.

  

If you’re willing to do some manual tweaking it’s possible to get 6 GHz across all of the P-Cores. Naturally we don’t recommend this unless you’ve got a particularly exotic cooling solution. So much so we’ll reserve our overclocking tests for another day. Watch this space.

  

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