i7-12700KF on B660

[kosay]

I got myself motherboard GIGABYTE B660 GAMING X DDR4 (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B660-GAMING-X-DDR4-rev-10#kf). Curently housing i5 12400F, I am considering upgrading to 12700KF, due to more cores and higher base frequency.

 

I understand my board does not support overclocking, and that is okay, I have no desire to OC it, base frequency of 12700kf is already nice (compared to my 12400f).

I would like to ask:

 

- can my motherboard (mentioned above) safely handle 12700KF without overclocking, the CPU have 125W TDP, but under load it might go higher, and I have to admit, I have no idea how high can the watttage and temperatures realistically surge (basically I am worried about damage to motherboard over time, but maybe I am just overthinking alot)

 

- I currently use Fera 5 Silentium (https://www.silentiumpc.com/en/product/fera-5/) for cooling, and it should (if I understand the cooler specs correctly) handle TDP up to 220W. Is this cooler realistically enough to cool 12700KF when not overclocked?

I have little knowledge about these things, so any advice will help. Thank you.

 

[jaslion]

What is the reason for the upgrade? In games the 12700kf is not really that much bett3r and depending on your gpu you can potentially not noticr a difference.

 

The cooler would probably not be sufficient. A thermalright peerless assasin 120 is 30-40$ qnd greqt for that cpu

[PDifolco]

1 hour ago, kosay said:

I got myself motherboard GIGABYTE B660 GAMING X DDR4 (https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/B660-GAMING-X-DDR4-rev-10#kf). Curently housing i5 12400F, I am considering upgrading to 12700KF, due to more cores and higher base frequency.

 

I understand my board does not support overclocking, and that is okay, I have no desire to OC it, base frequency of 12700kf is already nice (compared to my 12400f).

I would like to ask:

 

- can my motherboard (mentioned above) safely handle 12700KF without overclocking, the CPU have 125W TDP, but under load it might go higher, and I have to admit, I have no idea how high can the watttage and temperatures realistically surge (basically I am worried about damage to motherboard over time, but maybe I am just overthinking alot)

 

- I currently use Fera 5 Silentium (https://www.silentiumpc.com/en/product/fera-5/) for cooling, and it should (if I understand the cooler specs correctly) handle TDP up to 220W. Is this cooler realistically enough to cool 12700KF when not overclocked?

I have little knowledge about these things, so any advice will help. Thank you.

 

I'd rather get a 13600K, it's roughly same price, better performance overall (you lose 2 PCores but gain 4 Ecores), more cache

No risk of degradation at non OC settings (plus the patch is due in 2 weeks..)

[podkall]

3 minutes ago, PDifolco said:

No risk of degradation at non OC settings (plus the patch is due in 2 weeks..)

didn't the degradations happen to non-OCd CPUs too?

[PDifolco]

Just now, podkall said:

didn't the degradations happen to non-OCd CPUs too?

Maybe but it seems super rare, as voltage spikes should be much more infrequent

As said, the patch is coming pretty soon, and in the meantime just limiting max SoC voltage to 1.45V will prevent any trouble (watch Buildzoid for much much muuch more details )

ATM 13600K is a good deal imo, price is close to a 7600X for better performance (esp. with fast 7200MT RAM)

[anirudthelinuxwIzard]

I don’t know if you’ll get the 12700KF or 13600KF, but either way I record recommend a B660 or B760 (whichever is cheaper) PG riptide. It not only is much better than this trash gigabyte board, but it also has an external clock generator so you can overclock if you get the 12700KF (or any alder lake SKU ).

[Somerandomtechyboi]

1 hour ago, PDifolco said:

Maybe but it seems super rare, as voltage spikes should be much more infrequent

As said, the patch is coming pretty soon, and in the meantime just limiting max SoC voltage to 1.45V will prevent any trouble (watch Buildzoid for much much muuch more details )

ATM 13600K is a good deal imo, price is close to a 7600X for better performance (esp. with fast 7200MT RAM)

did you mean vcore volt?

welp i guess it makes sense theyd degrade running >1.45v at 100c even i wouldnt run 1.5v at 90c on my 32nm chips let alone 100c (id only be comfortable up to 1.4v at 100c)

[PDifolco]

5 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

did you mean vcore volt?

welp i guess it makes sense theyd degrade running >1.45v at 100c even i wouldnt run 1.5v at 90c on my 32nm chips let alone 100c (id only be comfortable up to 1.4v at 100c)

Yeah VCore indeed, I still suck a bit with electronics

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