SnooPandas2964

There's not much benefit for gaming beyond the i7. So the 14700k if you have money to spend. But an i5 (13600k or 14600k) would still be more than fine. Even an i3 (13100) would be fine.

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We are talking a desktop, right? If we're talking a laptop... just no.

Oh I see. Sorry I missed that. Yeah I suppose a 14700k wouldn't be a bad upgrade since you can still get pretty good money for your existing cpu. Your all core boost would go from 5.1 to 5.5. Thats something. But just so you know, it can be hard to get 100% utilization out of the 4090 on any cpu, especially at lower resolutions.

The 12th gen is pretty cheap. Something like 12600. Then you can still get ddr5 and have room to upgrade later.

13700k is already pretty damn good you shouldn't need to upgrade, you already have all 8 pcores.

But sure if you want you could get a 14700k or 14900k. Probably 14900k if you want to see a difference. But again, it will be small. You already have 95% of the gaming performance avaliable on the socket.

Are you sure you're not experiencing, like a game engine limitation or something? What are you trying to do that you can't?

Over a 13900k, for sure.

14700k would be quite a jump. Or a 14900k if money isn't an obstacle.

Either would be fine, the 13900k is the slightest bit faster and the 14700k is the slightest bit more efficient and has apo but for the all intents and purposes they are the same cpu.

1200w way overkill.

Hard to say. Check your mobo qvl. But there's a good chance.

Looks good. I mean it really bugs me that 4070 ti only has 12gb of vram but I suppose it wont be a problem... yet anyway. Also you really don't have to pay so much for a cooler if you don't want. The liquid freezer II 240 would be enough and its under $100, or even an air cooler. Perhaps you could put it into a gpu with more vram...?

I went from ivy bridge (3570k) to an 11600k and the improvement was huge. Ended up going to raptor lake a year later to keep up with my 4090. But really anything would be a huge upgrade.

Yes. More than enough.