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Upgrading the 8700 to the 12400F/13400F (alien.top)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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This is my current build https://pcpartpicker.com/list/j9d9KX

Planning on upgrading the cpu as it’s the only part of my build that I haven’t in a long time. But a bit lost on what the upgrade should be. Is the 13400F a decent jump in performance from the 8700? Is paying 60 usd more for the 13400F over the 12400F worth it or is its price to performance not justified?

What about the 13500? Is it worth paying 110 usd more for it over the 12400F?

And what mobo will pair well with it? DDR4 as I want to reuse the memory I already have

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

In games where you will be GPU bound (which will be most games if you don't have like a 4080 or 7900XTX) these two CPUs will offer almost identical performance.

In games where you a CPU bound, the performance difference will be like 5%

The 13400 is not a very big upgrade over the 12400 and not worth it for the extra premium.

Where as the 13500 has increased cache and is like 15% faster than the 12400 and the 13600K would be about 25% faster.

So my pick would be the 12400F as the intel 6 core budget king, or 13500/13600K if you had the extra money.