Intel Core i9-12900KF Desktop Processor 16 (8P+8E) Cores up to 5.2 GHz Unlocked  LGA1700 600 Series Chipset 125W

FAST CPU, Great Value for the Power!!!

If you need the speed Id recommend this CPU. Coupled with windows 11 you will have a power house gaming/media production system. Be sure to get a quality cooling system. At full tilt this CPU will be creating over 260 watts of heat.

Easy to setup, Runs fast, some bioss you have to enable the last turbo level manually instead of auto if you want to see 5.2ghz. You need to go water cooling or get an EK Elite 360 D-RGB and some IC Diamond 24TIM if you want this cpu to run cooler and not have the temps go out of control on you. Any other AIO is not up to it, no matter how much it cost. It can ran 4x16 3600 CL18 Corsair Vengeance RGB-Pro 3600 CL18 no issues, or Run 2x16 G.Skill Trident Royal Z 4000mhz CL16 B-Die no issues if you are on a Z690 DDR4 board. I would not go past 4400mhz DDR4 on a kit if you want it to run at stock/advertised speeds. But yeah, take my advice on cooling or say hello to 90-100c temps on the core.

Great processor for gaming and developing.

i was a devoted AMD fan, until the X570 Ace started bothering me with the dreaded USB issue, after trying serval fixes, including Bios updates that came promising to fix the issue, also am a system builder since 2005, and as my part time business I build high end systems, and seeing how many stability issues AMD has from time to time I wanted to just give Intel a chance, and am glad i did, this is now in my main system, along with my trusty FTW3 3080, had to upgrade my motherboard and went with a Z690 Aero D, DDR5, am really happy with it, saw a noticeable improvement over the AMD with DDR5, at 1080p 1440p and 4k, but mainly I saw a great improvement in VR, i have to bring up that this isnt an advisable upgrade if you are running anything new gen, like AMD 5k or Intel 10th or 11th, as the differences will be negligible, but if you are in the market for the best right now, nothing that AMD offers at the moment competes as far as single core, or multi core for the most part, and ironically this time intel offers better value, good times indeed.

Beast mode CPU. Bring the ice-water!

Im coming from a 3930k CPU that has performed its duty for many years in my custom build. So when I say this 12900kf zoom zoom zoooooomms, I mean it... Im running it with the NVIDIA RTX 3090 GPU and 64gb DDR5 4400 RAM. Well worth the money if you are into graphic design and video production using adobe software. I also do music production using Presonus Studio One 5.4 and up with Waves, izotope, and many other VTS and VSTi plugins. I cant say enough it simply makes my life easier and Im glad I got it!

So far I really like it. It is very fast

So Intel will not back this product up, so dont waste any money on them, they will ask you if you enabled XMP, and if you have a DDR5 system you will and then state that your warranty is void. Worst 600.00 I ever spent

Obviously a fast and capable chip but this chip must be installed with a thermal contact frame . The chip warps at high temps causing loss of contact with the cooler. This leads to random reboots and/or shutdowns. Thermal contact frame will prevent this issue .