cliffgamerz

Yes this board is a much better option than what OP mentioned, but do note this board requires DDR5 and those are still pricey when compared to DDR4, apart from that hope you'll enjoy your new build ☺️👍🏻🤞🏻

If your bios is 1202 version or higher dated June then it will support 14th gen CPU, I am running 14700KF with that exact same board updated with new bios dated October.

I think in B760M there is no undervolt option like Z series boards, so it's doubtful you can lower it, you can only adjust PL1 and PL2 to a certain limit so that system uses less watts and lower temperatures, instead of doing anything just try to run games and see how the performances are, synthetic benchmarks are kinda pointless to determine gaming performance unless you like doing work with that CPU and then it matters a bit.try any in game benchmarks and also note the 1% lows and 0.1% lows too and those are important in gaming along with average framerates

Then surely go with H as it's best bang for buck, I will be using onboard sound temporarily too until I upgrade to AE7 or AE9

Yes I agree and I mentioned about it in my response, I just placed an order for it to be paired with 14700K and G Skill 7200 CL34 32gb kit and I had a tough time choosing boards too as it's almost pointless to spend extra money on useless features, that's the reason I skipped AM5 build with 7800X3D because boards are too expensive where I live for AM5, even the B650 boards are ridiculously expensive than z790 boards.

I just purchased ROG z790-H gaming Wifi, it is almost similar to A but a bit less on what E offers and it is priced fairly well compared to the other two. You won't miss out on features from higher end much also the PCIE 5 M.2 is kinda joke anyways with current boards as all boards share lanes with pcie 16 lane and cuts bandwidth when installed in the slot above PCIE 16 slot, I would rather save money than use $500 on useless features which won't effect day to day use. Also I the H has S1220A audio chip and E has ALC4080 if sound matters to you, S1220A I believe is better of the two from what I heard but nothing compared to external DAC or high end internal sound cards which give supreme quality and only invest in such equipments if you are audiophile or have high end audio equipments.

That's ok if you forgot to mention it, it's almost essential for 12th,13th and 14th gen users as without it the contact patch will definitely create problems for IMC and also increases some core temps, in regards to overclock it's pretty much unnecessary and will only increase synthetic test scores and in real world tests it's kinda pointless in most use case.

As far as I can tell that is a pretty good score and an awesome undervolt giving same score as stock 13600k, I believe you are using contact frame too because those temps look okish if not then that would shave atleast 5 degrees minimum.

There isn't wrong with any components you have mentioned here, I hope you have enabled XMP in the bios if not it will cut down some of your performance, also that AIO more than sufficient to cool even with unlocked power limits, when you run the Cinebench just keep the hwinfo running at background and just check the core clocks of both P & E cores and see how much does it settle into.

Always mention your whole PC specifications so that it's easy for everyone to try and diagnose and give suggestions, as it could anything from thermal throttling to power limiting scenario, so we may never guide you without knowing the specifications like what cooler or PSU or RAM you have that could also affect your scores a lot.

I think internet issues were fixed long time back as there was an issue with Intel ethernet getting disconnected, the newer drivers have definitely fixed them as I have seen no new reports of issues anywhere online, I myself pulled a trigger and purchased an 14700KF build today along with Asus ROG Z790-H wifi, Gskill 7200 CL34 32gb kit and 990 pro 2TB which I got for a great deal, even though prices where I live is much higher than US I can say it was worth the route I took to build, I also explored the option of AMD as the 7800X3D cost just $10 more than 14700KF but the motherboard for AM5 are just ridiculously high where I live and even the B650 E-F costs more and I thought it wasn't worth the price I would spend overall even though I would have loved the AMD build personally.

Depends on which game you would love to play and what fps targets are you aiming for, if it's for competitive fps multiplayer with high refresh rate monitor then it would still be good but will be CPU limited at those resolution rather than using 14700k or 14900k, if your target is 60 fps for single player games then it's more than enough.