Pros: This is a total beast of a CPU, the first to have up to two cores hit 6.mhz out of the box. I don't see any reviews for the 13900KS, so I thought I would add one here. (or I haven't found the others). It's unfortunate that Newegg lumps all the 13900 series together. Before all the haters pile on, there is clearly some misinformation out there and you need to do your research before you make a fool of yourself. First off, overclocking motherboard manufacturers want to have the best performance out of the box, so they turn OFF Intel power limits by default and then owners with subpar cooling setups cry about the heat and power draw. See the pictures I have attached. This is what you get with proper cooling. In this case an EKWB custom loop with an ASUS z790-E MB with MCE disabled and all Intel power limits enabled for the 13900KS. Take a close look at the R23 cinebench scores and the max temps. And the max power draw. These screen shots are from a R23 run. The power draw is less than 250 watts if you know how to undervolt and tune the CPU to the 13900KS (or any overclockable Intel CPU for that matter with LL, LL_AC and LL_DC simple tuning) Plus, its rare you ever have a full AVX underload for long durations, but if you do, do your cooling setup right and do your research. If you want the fastest consumer level CPU at the time of this review on a per core basis etc... this is the CPU you want. And you can even take it further if you want to keep tweaking over clock it. All the screen shots are for default Intel enforce power draw and the clocks are all default for the 13900K out of the box. It's a fun CPU! And your results will vary based on the luck of the silicon draw you get. Check the silicon prediction in the bios (on an ASUS motherboard anyway) and spend some time on overclock.net and see what you can do. Under normal gaming etc, this CPU runs very cool and just chews through any multi-threaded or single threaded task. Physics calculations in games that are using the CPU will just scream. What you really are paying for here is a binned 13900K that will let you push the 13th gen platform to the limits. This is the price you pay for that specific binning by Intel with the 13900KS. If you spend this kind of cash on a 13900KS, don't put on a $25 budget air cooler. It's just not going to cut it if you push this CPU to the performance that it can achieve. Anyway, have fun and ignore the haters and listen to the experienced overclockers out there. mg

Cons: Well, the performance comes at a cost and it's not cheap, but if you wait you can usually pick up the 13900KS for less than $700 and discount codes etc. Heat and power draw are only a con if you didn't do your research and know what you were buying.

Overall Review: The 13900KS beast requires attention to detail on your build and a good cooling system to keep it from quickly thermal throttling. I highly recommend it if you have the budget and the prowess to do a top-notch build. FYI, I'm running an EKWB D5 pump with an EKWB Velocity 2 socket 1700 WB with a 4090 using the active back plate EKWB GPU WB. It's a sweet setup and will satisfy me for many years to come, Just like my Intel 8700K did over 5 years ago.

Pros: I really think this is the sweet spot for price / performance satisfaction if you are going to primarily use your PC for gaming with other heavy workloads too. I could have bought the 13900K but decided to save the $200 for when GPU's come down in price. Check out my pictures. This is a sweet CPU! Do your research if you are doing a higher end build and want to eek out top cooling performance. I got the Thermaltake anti-bend pressure plate. Do your research! I have the proper tools and I think the Thermaltake plate is the way to go over the Thermal Grizzly plate. I like the Thermaltake solution because it will press up against the motherboard when you replace the stock Intel ILM. I have a torque screw driver and used 1-2 ft inches of torque for the pressure plate. There is no need to kill it on screwing the plate in. Take note of how easy the screws come off of the factory ILM when you remove them. Your cooler is going to be putting the pressure on the CPU and the anti-bend plate is just there to hold the cpu in place so your cooler can put more pressure on the CPU. Again research why the anti-bend plate is a thing on the 1700 Intel socket cpu's. If you are going for all out cooling performance, I would consider it and know what you are doing. Stock, the CPU gets 12500 on the benchmark in CPU-z and honestly runs pretty cool and this is with the ASUS multi core enhancement turned on in the bios of an ASUS Strix z790-E MB which I paired the 13700K with. However, I'm running a custom loop setup / EKWB for the CPU. There is a good video on YouTube from JJ at ASUS that goes over the overclocking callabilities of the 1700 socket 12/13th gen CPU's. I think the 13th gen is the way to go because of the much better IMC (integrated memory controller) in the CPU. You will do far better getting higher MT/s ram to work with the 13th gen and the z790 chipset IMHO. The AI overclocking that ASUS has in their superior bios has really come a long way. I think people should NOT get hung up on pinning all the P cores to a single speed. Efficiency is the way to go for real workloads and gaming. I.e. you can use the ASUS AI bios to overclock and get 6.2 ghz on one or two cores dynamically based on your load. Anyway, the 13th gen CPUs and the z690 / z790 chipsets are the bee's knees if you ask me. You get the raw, scorching single thread performance with the amazing Intel thread scheduling across the P and E cores. It's all very, very fast at the end of the day if you take advantage of all the features of your build. The hype of these CPU's generating a ton of heat with huge wattage draw is way over blown and the motherboard manufactures are to blame when they turn on the over clocking options by default. ASUS does this with the multi core enhancement. If you run these CPUs at total stock clocks and wattage draw limits, they run very cool. But if you want to push the limits you can and you should know what you are doing with the cooling. Anyway, you won't be disappointed with any of the 13th gen Intel CPUs, but I still thing the 13700K is the sweet spot for my needs. The 13600K would have left me wanting and if I'm honest with myself I just don't need the 13900K extra E cores and additional threads. You could argue that paying the $200 premium for the 13900K is worth it just based on resale value down the road. The top of the line consumer / enthusiast CPU's tend to demand more $$$ down the road. Have fun! The reviews on the 13th gen CPUs speak for themselves! Outstanding / crazy performance!

Cons: None... do your research and stop being paranoid about heat and power consumption. Folks shoot themselves in the foot using default enthusiast MB's with poor / low budget cooling solutions. And they don't understand what some of the BIOS defaults are doing to generate more heat. Just to show better default performance on CPUs out of the box.

Overall Review: Yes, absolutely!

Pros: I bought my first top of the line ASUS enthusiast board in 2013, a Maximus V, and then upgraded to a Maximus X 5 years later with an 8700K (A great combo!). For 2023 it's the ASUS Strix z790-E, with a 13700K (an amazing CPU price performance / save $200 over the 13900K option). If you are spending this kind of $$$ on a motherboard, you need to know what you are getting. Negative reviews always seem to come from uninformed buyers IMHO. This is an excellent board! You need to understand the PCIE lane bifurcation with these boards and know how it works. For example! The PCIEX16_1 slot shares 16 lanes with the M.2_1 slot. If you populate the M.2_1 slot, you will get X8 lanes for your GPU (no way around it and you give up 4 lanes, X8 to the GPU and X4 to the M.2_1 slot). Not a big deal really, but take that into account. There are 20 PCIE lanes for the CPU, the shared 16 and 4 more for M.2_2. So you have two M.2 slots using direct cpu PCIE lanes. 24 more lanes for the chipset, and 8 between the chipset and the cpu. So all those other lanes are for the other M.2 slots and the USB I/O. You won't be disappointed with this board if you have the budget for it. Honestly, I think it's the better value than the Hero. The Hero has the thunderbolt built into the motherboad and comes with the ASUS Hyper card for adding more M.2 storage. However, I just wouldn't use it for my needs... mostly gaming and lighter work loads. There are cases where you maximize storage and speed there over the GPU. Content creation potentially. With this board, if you need that you can buy the Hyper drive card and get really close to the Hero setup. I just didn't need the extra storage, so why spend more $$ for Hero. Plus I like the PCIE lane bifurcation on the z790-E. I paired this board with G.Skill 7200 MT/s 32 timing RAM and it works perfect under crazy load in OCCT at 7200 MT/s using the ASUS XMP Tweaked profile.

Cons: Price, that is about it. But it is what it is in 2023

Overall Review: Yes!

Pros: Works perfect in an ASUS Strix z790-E using the ASUS XMP Tweaked profile in bios versions 0810 and 8011. (Not sure about the current 0703 bios on the ASUS website). Poke around on Google and you will find the more recent bios versions. These run cooler than I expected underload, but you really need to consider cooling DDR5 if you have heavy loads reading and writing to the RAM. Keep them under 60c! < 55c even better. I can get a full hour run with the ASUS XMP Tweaked profile at 7200 MT/s in OCCT set to 80% of RAM and the large workload. This really puts your RAM to the test. You want zero errors. If you start getting errors after 10-15 minutes in OCCT, you probably are having a heat issue. I really like the silver look in an all black setup for the most part for my Thermaltake Core P3 Pro case. I'll drop a few pictures below. Great ram for 7200 MT/s speed and a relatively low 34 timings.

Cons: Price of course, but at the time I bought these... DDR5 has really come down in price. Still, you need to pony up for these speeds and timings in early 2023. $$$

Overall Review: Yes!

Pros: For the price and functionality, I'm very happy with this case. I paired it with an ASUS Strix z790-E MB, Alphacool 420mm x 60mm radiator (big boy!). For the perfect fit on the radiator, I put a set of 140mm fans as pullers on the back, so the radiator protrudes out of the radiator slot. It's like it was made for the case! I like the cable management and the option to mount the GPU horizontally or vertically. I'm holding out for a FTX 4080/4090 and will need to go vertical at that time. Anyway, take a look at the pics. I really like the setup.

Cons: Tough to think of any at this price point. It's a heavy case and that was what I expected but could be a con to someone else.

Overall Review: Yes, absolutely!

Pros: I'm writing this review on my new MateBook D 14. I have been looking for a new ultrabook for months and months now and didn't want to break the bank. Well with this laptop it's a win/win. On sale at $529 and even at the $550 price this is a no brainer if you are looking for something for productivity and a little gaming. The Vega Graphics pummel the intel integrated offering and the Ryzen 5, 4 cores and 8 threads even outperform the intel i5 8th gen on some work loads. The M.2 SSD is easily upgraded if needed. The battery life so far has been far more than I expected. The finish and feel of this laptop is solid. And I was shocked to see there is no irritating bloatware installed. The only manufacture application is called the PC Manager and it is actually nice to check for driver updates. Even the SSD partitions are sized to maximize the space on the SSD. No over the top recovery partition that is sized too big which will waste usable space. The first time startup was clean... I did end up downloading the Windows media creation tool so I would get the latest 1809 built of Windows 10. No issues with the update as expected. Unless you need the GPU power of an Nvidia MX150, I just can't see paying the extra $$$ for the Intel platform and the Nvidia graphics? Another $200-$300 I think? Not sure if that is an option in this series of laptop. I'm shocked at how cool this runs too. And for that matter, the screen at 1080p is really nice. At this size of screen, I don't think you get a huge benefit to jump to 2k or 4k for that matter. It's designed for productivity with the opportunity to so some gaming on the side. I'm happy with the 1920x1080 resolution. Oh, and it's touch screen. I forgot about the touch screen until after I had everything setup. I likely won't use the touch screen much, but then again, it's there if you need it. All in all, I'm still shocked at how nice this laptop presents itself. Down right solid and the finish is beautiful. As I mentioned earlier, you can't go wrong here at the price point.

Cons: Not sure if this is much of a con, but my last laptop had external volume buttons on the edge... I do kind of miss that, but not worries on getting used to the Windows Key + FKey volume up and down combination.

Overall Review: There is a reason that the early reviews of this laptop are a solid stars... they are well deserved!