Chip Analysis: Intel Reclaims Top CPU Performance

The i9-13900k chip is insane, let's take a look at the CPU specific benchmarks and roll through to the gaming ones as we go. Taking a closer look at Cinebench R23, the i9-13900k comes out on top by a hefty margin, with a score of 4500 points more than AMD's new Ryzen 9 7950X. This chip costs $50 less than its competitor and is nearly $12,000 more efficient, a whopping 50% increase over the last gen I9-12900k.

Moving on to single-threaded numbers, Intel once again retains their reputation of being single-thread Kings. Single thread, of course, is the most important for gaming, as it determines the overall performance in demanding titles. The i9-13900k again beats out the Ryzen 9 7950X by only around five percent, but it's still a decisive win and tops the last generation I9-12900k by around 20%.

The 3D Mark CPU Profile test results are equally impressive. Even in single-threaded mode, this chip is faster than any other processor we've tested. The multi-core score also topped the charts, delivering on every front.

Synthetic benchmarks like 3DMark Time Spy and Extreme for DX12 testing show the i9-13900k's dominance. In both tests, it outperforms AMD's Ryzen 9 7950X by a significant margin. Additionally, in our final two synthetic benchmarks, 3D Mark Fire Strike Standard for DX11 and Times by Extreme, the i9-13900k again takes the top spot.

Next, we moved on to some synthetic gaming benchmarks using OverWatch 2 with an easy build-in and a brand new title. We also tested Formula One 2022 at true 4K resolution without render scaling. The results were impressive, with the i9-13900k achieving 304 frames per second on average in Overwatch 2, surpassing the Ryzen 9 7950X's score.

In Formula One 2022, we tested using the game's built-in benchmarking mode and achieved 237 FPS on average at 4K Ultra High preset. The game looked stunning, with no CPU bottleneck. This is something we've previously seen across the board with our 4090 testing.

Next up was Battlefield 2042 at 4K and High settings. Our i9-13900k delivered strong results, achieving 122 FPS on average. We also tested with both MSI Afterburners Reaver Tuner and Nvidia Frame View to ensure accurate frame rate data.

Finally, we moved on to Apex Legends at 1080p High settings. Our i9-13900k achieved an impressive 300 FPS on average, which by my records is our highest Apex frame rate ever recorded. The good results carried over to 4K, where the frame rate loss was minimal, with only a 37 FPS difference compared to using a comparable Ryzen 9 chip and an RTX 4090.

In Fortnite at 1080p Competitive settings, we achieved over 300 frames per second. We also tested Marvel's Spider-Man remastered at 4K High settings with DLSS enabled, achieving 200 FPS on average.

Our results were captured using a 4090 graphics card to give you an idea of how the system performs. However, we did run General benchmarks using a 6950 XT and all the different CPUs we have available for comparison. You can learn more about those controlled results over on our website.

Intel has reclaimed their crown as the top CPU performance after just three weeks away from the fold. This new architecture still supports DDR4 memory, costs less money to get up and running than Ryzen 7000, and features efficient thermals and good turbo speeds. You can learn more about the new Intel chips and all the parts mentioned in today's build by visiting our website.

Thanks for tuning in, and we'll see you in the next one for more PC building fun!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enthe PC Building Market has gone totally crazy with new product releases basically every week and this time it's Intel's turn with their new 13th Gen processor lineup have they managed to Dethrone AMD already a matter of weeks after their new ryzen 7000 launch I guess there's only really one way to find out in this video we'll be testing these new Chips by building the ultimate 13th gen gaming PC with a 1490 z790 motherboard and just about everything in between let's do this ebuyer.com are your One-Stop shop for all your PC Hardware needs over in the UK with loads of deals on a wide range of components including new gpus and these new Intel 13th gen processors there's loads to choose from you can supercharge your setup with some new peripherals or grab yourself a new PC from their in-house system builder alphasync check out all the latest tech deals at the first link below Intel's new Raptor Lake 13th gen lineup excites me for a number of reasons and should probably excite you too with 14 16 or 24 cores on the I5 i7 or I9 chips in that order and a boost clock speed on the 3900k a 5.8 gigahertz out of the box these things look to take a lot of the single and multi-threaded performance boxes if you take a look at how these compare to the ryzen processors you can see how these chips might be a lot better not only for multi-threaded performance but single thread too and it doesn't stop there these new Raptor Lake processors support z690 motherboards with a bios update all new z790 designs they also support ddr4 or ddr5 memory saving a mid-range and budget Builder a lot of money and do so at MSRP price points that look very attractive now we received the press kit which looks like a CPU under a microscope which is pretty cool and in here there's a couple of pretty exciting chips that we've got our hands on specifically the i930 3900k and the I5 1213 definitely 13 13 600k we've also got in for good measure the i7 13 700k which you'll see in some of our graphs a bit later a couple of technical bits of information these CPUs retain Intel's p and Ecotec which they pioneered with 12th gen basically or performance cores are the faster cores and you've also got efficiency cores in there too which are automatically load balance to deal with background tasks that essentially allows some cores to be stronger be better for gaming but gives you the upside that multi-threader performance obviously has on more cores that's the main reason why you'll see a much higher core count on these CPUs than you will on the new ryzen 7000 lineup and the reason as well that the performance on these is set to be a good chunk better with your P cores here running up to 5.8 gigahertz on the I9 13900k with up to 5.4 gigahertz on the i7 and 5.1 on the I5 these are certainly not slow jam but neither was Rising 7000 so we'll dive into that later in a little more detail I'm gonna select the I9 for this build as the whole idea is that I want to build the best PC I can put together for an unlimited budget now for the motherboard I've picked the Asus Rog Maximus z790 hero for a long time I've been a fan of their Maximus range it gives you all the bells and whistles you could want PCI Gen 5 for your storage and your GPU slot you've also got ddr5 memory support the LGA 1700 socket for 12th and 13th gem processors I could bang on about it all day but I don't need to because I've actually done a review or one of our team has I should say over on the website which I pop in the cards now give it a read if you want to learn the technical ins and outs of the Maximus hero there really is nothing more exciting than opening a brand new CPU here we are oh look at that would you just look at that CPU oh yes now of course nothing new here AMD have gone for a whole new approach with their am5 CPUs where they've basically little more Intel I've been doing for years Intel haven't really changed much so you can basically go ahead just pop the CPU in like you always have done triangle in the corner match it all up very gently as the pins can be delicate give it a bit of a wiggle arm down retention arm down plastic cover plastic cover off basically all we need to do I'm gonna put my ram in next I've got 32 gigs of corsairs Vengeance RGB ddr5 this is nearly 6000 megahertz in speed as well ddr5 is one of those things it's just not there yet it's something that lets the ryzen 7000 architecture down especially on the budget end for a high-end build like this you might as well go for higher memory but for a cheaper build with like the I5 for example just pick yourself up a z690 ddr4 motherboard or even a b660 chipset save yourself some cash with cheaper motherboards and cheaper memory this board supports Fordham which is pretty normal your Maximus hero kind only gives you all the functionality that you could want and Clips in nice and easily while we're here we can also go ahead and remove this m.2 heatsink just here so we've got two screws which will pull this off revealing the tallest m.2 installation mechanism now I've picked a pretty exciting drive for this build one you probably haven't heard of before it's Samsung's new 990 Pro not the 980 the 990. now it gives you read speeds of seven and a half gigabytes a second which is basically as quick as you get I think for a Gen 4 Drive the rights are slightly slower but still just under seven gigabytes a second it's a very good this one's two terabytes but you can get one a two or a four so plenty of choice make sure to remove the little m.2 sticky pad peely thing is definitely what it's called and pop the drive-in cover goes back on that'll keep it in place nothing more to it wait Did the old one not have plastic in it yeah the old one had like a recycled cardboard bad news Samsung the old one better packaging for the planet look after the planet Samsung we don't need this plastic rubbish you know what I don't want to blow my own trumpet to my own horn but that's looking very good so far now there is one thing I'd recommend anyone do if they're using a particularly complicated CPU Cooler or a liquid cooler and that's just perhaps some of the mounting hardware for the motherboard now before we go ahead and move it into the case now I have got an ambition to make I try to be an organized chat but sometimes it doesn't go quite to plan and all of our CPU mounting hardware gets a little muddled introducing this the NZXT box NZXT mounting hardware is very standard so the stuff that we use will be the exact same things you're going to use if you go in for the same approximate parts success great success what you'll find is one of these this is like a flexible plastic back plate with four screw pins on each Corner that actually adjust as you see fit and then we've also got these sort of male to male posts with a thumb screw on the top these are what we're going to use to actually fasten the cooler down a bit later add in the back plate and then screw in these meld mail posts keep a hold of these thumb screws as I say we'll need those in a few moments time but doing this stage will save you a lot of hassle later I've done so many builds where I've forgotten to do it regretted it it can be very fiddly inside of the case so get it done now top right and then the two at the bottom call the case in this build I just need to move the 1490 out of the way carefully does it and place down this our NZXT H7 now you've got to be a bit careful when using the new graphics cards and the new components in existing cases this is a normal ATX motherboard but lots of rx670 boards we saw were e80x so big boys same goes for the graphics card I mean this is like 360 something mil but some of the car from like gigabyte Asus MSI palette are like 380 mil closest to 400 mil to really really check these Dimensions it's important you get these right I don't want you guys buying a case trying to get your GPU in and then go no it doesn't fit and that's because this new hardware is bigger as well as better and more expensive although 13th gen looks to be a bit of an outlier and hopefully is nice and competitively priced which is good to see now with any build you want to strip down all of the panels of the case to the top both the sides and the rear shout out to NZXT by the way for making it totally talless you literally haven't got a single screw very very easy very well designed and then we can lay the chassis down nice and flat I mean you can do this all right if you want to make your life difficult but I would suggest not making your life difficult and laying the case down flat taking a look in the chassis and pulling out my pointy screwdriver of Doom you'll be able to see that we've got some standoffs in here now we've got three at the top there's three down the middle and three along the bottom no extras that's important because they're going to line up perfectly with the standard ATX form factor that you'll find on this motherboard and most modern ATX motherboard designs taking a quick cursory glance you'll see three down the middle three down the bottom three up the top so they're all going to line up nice and easy and the board also has this fancy thing called a built-in rear IO Shield meaning we can simply drop it into place all the standoffs line up because we've checked it the i o Shield doesn't need installing beforehand and then in theory they all should just line up and we can pop some screws in to tighten it down try not to miss any out I mean you don't have to necessarily do all nine but it's probably for the best if you just go ahead and do all nine at this stage then I can go ahead next up and add the cooler in picking a cooler for these new CPUs is actually quite important looking at the specs this 12 13 I keep saying 12. I'm gonna one day I'll get into my head that it's not ryzen 5000 it's seven thousand and it's not 12th gen it's 13. these 13 900k chips can run warmer I mean the peat power consumption is like 225 Watts on this so having something capable of dispersing all the Heat and of course allowing us to overclock on this motherboard to over six gigahertz that's the first thing I think I'm gonna do when I boot this PC up is important and that's where nzxd's Kraken x73 comes in large radiator three RGB fans and it's going to fit perfectly in the front of the case oopsie it's gonna fit perfectly in the front of the case I'm going to add those in pop the block on top and that's where those thumb screws come in from earlier you want to go ahead and place these on all four corners of the CPU and just give them a nice Titan in a cross pattern which will fasten our cooler into place I actually had to place it with the tubes on the right hand side as they don't fit on the left there's too much heatsink on our vrms which is a good sign for overclocking it's something to think about if you've got a bulky air cooler this motherboard is maybe better suited to an all-in-one like this one where you can choose to decide that the tubes are on now then while the chassis is down here I think it makes sense to pop in the GPU next now when you're looking at a build like this there really is only one choice if you want to build the highest end most powerful gaming PC that one can possibly put together and that is of course the RTX 1490 here it is hallelujah oh it's the wrong way around here it is oh yeah I'm not gonna do that again now this is nvidia's most powerful graphics card ever and it weighs an absolute ton now for this build you've got a few options you could go for like a gigabyte card an MSI or an Asus to match the motherboard but you've got to be really careful of the size the founders Edition card which is this one here just a quick reminder 24 gigs of vram Two and a Half gigahertz clock speed DLS S3 I mean this thing is the business costs you a lot of money but it's very very powerful it's one of the smaller cards on the market believe it or not meaning it fits into this build absolutely fine but you've only probably got another four and a half five centimeters to play with about 40 millimeters so just be wary of the GPU you're gonna go for and the case that it fits in these cards are big triple slot beasts so make sure your case not only fits them but they look good and well proportioned inside the chassis you've selected with this being a large thick triple slot card we also need to just take out this rearmost PCI Lane removing that's going to give us of course the all-important clearance we need for the 1490 oh yeah baby pop this thing in I'm excited and then if we push it in we get a nice satisfying click sound and we can fasten it down through each of the three holes one here one here and one here this card is like a unibody s design meaning it doesn't really sag that much which is good but just be wary some of the big aftermarket cards you may want to add in a support bracket not only to keep it upright and looking good but to prevent damage to your PCI slot and other components in the build I talked about it extensively in our 4090 review and build videos but the 4090 as much as it's a great card it's a card that I would also recommend you think twice before buying do you actually need the power of a GPU like this of course I want to build myself the fastest PC possible but do you really need 200 frames per second at 4K and more importantly have you got a really expensive monitor that can best make advantage of a card like this or instead would you be better with the upcoming 4080 which I'm also presuming will be very good and then spending the spare cash on upgrading other elements of your setup and other parts of your gaming experience for the price of a 4090 you could build the sickest Sim set up in the world and have a PC to power it so it's definitely Food For Thought on that front talkative needed other components to work with the 4090 not only do you need a fast CPU introducing that 13th gen but also a good power supply 450 Watts for the GPU 250 for the CPU and we got 700 Watts already on two components so make sure you have a good power supply which is where where's it gone I keep losing power supplies recently this oh it's so heavy the Corsair fhx1000i comes into play now fully modular only plug-in cables you need I mean for like 200 300 I should bloody hope so it's also got a PCI Gen 5 power cable for our graphics card meaning we haven't got that horrible splitter to use I mean have you seen the size of this splitter not for me and of course it also has software control with a USB C port to cause that IQ because I mean of course it does actually kind of useful for monitoring our usage something that some people will be worried about on these new components but I assure you a thousand Watts for this build will be more than enough the GPU is 450 at Peak it's not running at that all the time same with the CPU I won't run through all the detailed cables and wiring but I have covered that before instead I'll let you watch me come manage this PC and make it look stunning I'm also going to pop in a couple of custom sleeve cable extensions in there too A good measure just to polish it all off and then I think we're going to be good to actually turn this thing on oh heavy really really heavy for the very first time before that we need to put all these side panels back into place let's start by adding in on the top panel first of all and this design just went a bit difficult doing it blind we'll leave the glass one off for now you'll see why in a second and then the back one is I mean sort of on but I think our cables need a bit more work in order for that to stay exactly in its place and then we can plug up our keyboard a Wired Mouse and of course the monitor lovely jubbly oh yeah and the PC how on Earth could I possibly forget that stage the motherboard is already lit up so we can go ahead we're just going to use the power button on the motherboard rather than the front panel one for now to see what happens okay we've got some RGB fans are spinning I'm not sure the front one the front one's spinning no no the front ones aren't spinning I think they're not quite wired up properly but the back one is okay we've got some RGB wiring to mess about with but we're not a million miles away well hey we got marginally interrupted I've come back and the monitor's like yes I'm gonna work and I'm like yeah I'm gonna celebrate nice so if we jump into the biops F1 tidy now damn what the viewers at home don't know is this is not actually screwed together so that could have very nearly been a way hey well hey and then if we jump into the biosh you see we've got a few things going on we can go ahead and enable XMP for the memory to get that running at the right speed two 16 gig dimms we've got our I9 13 900k on our Rogue Maximus z790 hero the only thing really we need to do is use a little bit of the AI OC tool let's hit enable this will enable AI optimization for your CPU frequency this sounds like cheating and I like it all that's left to do then really is install Windows which we can do with a bootable USB a full guide on how to do this is over on our website then we can dive in and see how well it performs before looking at detailed benchmarks though of the 3900k you guys want to know how this thing actually looks when all the RGB is configured in software and when the whole thing is looking superb so I'll see you in just a few moments but first it's time for a customary geeko op Montage oh yes the 13th gen Intel processors but when we are together it's time to see how well this system actually performs and whether the new I9 is actually a worthy upgrade spoiler alert this chip is insane let's look at the CPU specific benchmarks and roll through to the gaming ones as we go taking a look at cinebench R23 and the i930 900k comes out on top by a hefty margin we're talking four and a half thousand points more than amd's new ryzen 9 7950x a chip that costs 50 more than this one and a whopping 12 000 more that's nearly a 50 increase over the last gen I9 12900k move over to single threaded numbers and Intel once again retain their reputation of being single thread Kings single thread of course is the most important for gaming the I9 13900k once again beats out the ryzen 9 7950x only by around five percent but it's still a decisive win and top the last generation i912 900k by around 300 points or around about 20 moving on to the 3D Mark CPU profile test and the results speak for themselves even this single thread core was faster than any other processor we've tested the multi-core score topped the charts this thing delivers on every front something once again demonstrated in our final two synthetic benchmarks 3D marks Times by extreme for dx12 testing and 3D Max fire strike standard for dx11 our DX to our results were great the I9 topped the charts when testing with a 6950 XT as we did with all the CPUs to keep the charts fair and the results in 3D marks firestrike were once again the same with an even higher margin here over the next best CPU a chip then that looks like it's going to match up the 1490 very well indeed and in our results today that's exactly what happened we started off with OverWatch 2 we'll ease the build in with an easier but still a brand new title and here at 4K using true 4K so no render scaling I achieved 304 frames per second on average as a reference point this gave us a higher frame rate than what we saw when testing with the ryzen 9 7 900 or 7950x and the game looked buttery smooth as you'd come to expect in Formula One 2022 when testing using the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode there is also once again very good 4K Ultra High preset we got 237 FPS on average the game looked absolutely stood in and our I9 made sure we didn't see a CPU bottleneck here something we have previously seen across the board with our 4090 testing Battlefield 2042 at 4K and the results were once again very good 4K High settings 122 FPS on average strong 90 and 99 percentile results and as always our frame rate data was tested with both MSI afterburners Reaver tuner and Nvidia frame view moving on to Apex Legends at 1080p High settings here we poured in 300 FPS on average which by my records at 1080p is our highest Apex frame rate ever recorded the good results carried on through to 4K where the frame rate loss was pretty minimal 239 on average this was 37 FPS more than with a comparable ryzen 9 chip and an RTX 1490 and once again sits as the best gaming result we've ever achieved in Apex Legends it was a similarly positive story in fortnite where at 1080p competitive settings 1080p of course really testing whether the CPU is going to create a bottleneck and we achieved over 300 frames per second here 300 FPS on average with this I9 and 4090 combo finally in Marvel's Spider-Man remastered at 4K High settings with dlss once again enabled it makes sense to use dlss and the new DLS S3 on this build wherever possible and here we achieved 200 frames per second on average when testing at that 4K High preset of course with this build all of our results were captured with the 4090 graphics card so you can see how the system performs but we did run General benchmarks using a 6950 XT and all the different CPUs we have available you can learn more about those controlled results over on our website and I'll link reviews to the new I5 i7 and I9 chips Down Below have Intel reclaimed their crown of the top CPU performance after just three weeks away from the fold yes they have 13th gen is an impressive architecture this still supports ddr4 costs less money to get up and running than ryzen 7000 and does so with efficient thermals and good tdps you can learn more about the new Intel chips and all the parts mentioned in today's build down below thanks for tuning in and as always we'll see you in the next one for more PC Building fun a release that's what I call itthe PC Building Market has gone totally crazy with new product releases basically every week and this time it's Intel's turn with their new 13th Gen processor lineup have they managed to Dethrone AMD already a matter of weeks after their new ryzen 7000 launch I guess there's only really one way to find out in this video we'll be testing these new Chips by building the ultimate 13th gen gaming PC with a 1490 z790 motherboard and just about everything in between let's do this ebuyer.com are your One-Stop shop for all your PC Hardware needs over in the UK with loads of deals on a wide range of components including new gpus and these new Intel 13th gen processors there's loads to choose from you can supercharge your setup with some new peripherals or grab yourself a new PC from their in-house system builder alphasync check out all the latest tech deals at the first link below Intel's new Raptor Lake 13th gen lineup excites me for a number of reasons and should probably excite you too with 14 16 or 24 cores on the I5 i7 or I9 chips in that order and a boost clock speed on the 3900k a 5.8 gigahertz out of the box these things look to take a lot of the single and multi-threaded performance boxes if you take a look at how these compare to the ryzen processors you can see how these chips might be a lot better not only for multi-threaded performance but single thread too and it doesn't stop there these new Raptor Lake processors support z690 motherboards with a bios update all new z790 designs they also support ddr4 or ddr5 memory saving a mid-range and budget Builder a lot of money and do so at MSRP price points that look very attractive now we received the press kit which looks like a CPU under a microscope which is pretty cool and in here there's a couple of pretty exciting chips that we've got our hands on specifically the i930 3900k and the I5 1213 definitely 13 13 600k we've also got in for good measure the i7 13 700k which you'll see in some of our graphs a bit later a couple of technical bits of information these CPUs retain Intel's p and Ecotec which they pioneered with 12th gen basically or performance cores are the faster cores and you've also got efficiency cores in there too which are automatically load balance to deal with background tasks that essentially allows some cores to be stronger be better for gaming but gives you the upside that multi-threader performance obviously has on more cores that's the main reason why you'll see a much higher core count on these CPUs than you will on the new ryzen 7000 lineup and the reason as well that the performance on these is set to be a good chunk better with your P cores here running up to 5.8 gigahertz on the I9 13900k with up to 5.4 gigahertz on the i7 and 5.1 on the I5 these are certainly not slow jam but neither was Rising 7000 so we'll dive into that later in a little more detail I'm gonna select the I9 for this build as the whole idea is that I want to build the best PC I can put together for an unlimited budget now for the motherboard I've picked the Asus Rog Maximus z790 hero for a long time I've been a fan of their Maximus range it gives you all the bells and whistles you could want PCI Gen 5 for your storage and your GPU slot you've also got ddr5 memory support the LGA 1700 socket for 12th and 13th gem processors I could bang on about it all day but I don't need to because I've actually done a review or one of our team has I should say over on the website which I pop in the cards now give it a read if you want to learn the technical ins and outs of the Maximus hero there really is nothing more exciting than opening a brand new CPU here we are oh look at that would you just look at that CPU oh yes now of course nothing new here AMD have gone for a whole new approach with their am5 CPUs where they've basically little more Intel I've been doing for years Intel haven't really changed much so you can basically go ahead just pop the CPU in like you always have done triangle in the corner match it all up very gently as the pins can be delicate give it a bit of a wiggle arm down retention arm down plastic cover plastic cover off basically all we need to do I'm gonna put my ram in next I've got 32 gigs of corsairs Vengeance RGB ddr5 this is nearly 6000 megahertz in speed as well ddr5 is one of those things it's just not there yet it's something that lets the ryzen 7000 architecture down especially on the budget end for a high-end build like this you might as well go for higher memory but for a cheaper build with like the I5 for example just pick yourself up a z690 ddr4 motherboard or even a b660 chipset save yourself some cash with cheaper motherboards and cheaper memory this board supports Fordham which is pretty normal your Maximus hero kind only gives you all the functionality that you could want and Clips in nice and easily while we're here we can also go ahead and remove this m.2 heatsink just here so we've got two screws which will pull this off revealing the tallest m.2 installation mechanism now I've picked a pretty exciting drive for this build one you probably haven't heard of before it's Samsung's new 990 Pro not the 980 the 990. now it gives you read speeds of seven and a half gigabytes a second which is basically as quick as you get I think for a Gen 4 Drive the rights are slightly slower but still just under seven gigabytes a second it's a very good this one's two terabytes but you can get one a two or a four so plenty of choice make sure to remove the little m.2 sticky pad peely thing is definitely what it's called and pop the drive-in cover goes back on that'll keep it in place nothing more to it wait Did the old one not have plastic in it yeah the old one had like a recycled cardboard bad news Samsung the old one better packaging for the planet look after the planet Samsung we don't need this plastic rubbish you know what I don't want to blow my own trumpet to my own horn but that's looking very good so far now there is one thing I'd recommend anyone do if they're using a particularly complicated CPU Cooler or a liquid cooler and that's just perhaps some of the mounting hardware for the motherboard now before we go ahead and move it into the case now I have got an ambition to make I try to be an organized chat but sometimes it doesn't go quite to plan and all of our CPU mounting hardware gets a little muddled introducing this the NZXT box NZXT mounting hardware is very standard so the stuff that we use will be the exact same things you're going to use if you go in for the same approximate parts success great success what you'll find is one of these this is like a flexible plastic back plate with four screw pins on each Corner that actually adjust as you see fit and then we've also got these sort of male to male posts with a thumb screw on the top these are what we're going to use to actually fasten the cooler down a bit later add in the back plate and then screw in these meld mail posts keep a hold of these thumb screws as I say we'll need those in a few moments time but doing this stage will save you a lot of hassle later I've done so many builds where I've forgotten to do it regretted it it can be very fiddly inside of the case so get it done now top right and then the two at the bottom call the case in this build I just need to move the 1490 out of the way carefully does it and place down this our NZXT H7 now you've got to be a bit careful when using the new graphics cards and the new components in existing cases this is a normal ATX motherboard but lots of rx670 boards we saw were e80x so big boys same goes for the graphics card I mean this is like 360 something mil but some of the car from like gigabyte Asus MSI palette are like 380 mil closest to 400 mil to really really check these Dimensions it's important you get these right I don't want you guys buying a case trying to get your GPU in and then go no it doesn't fit and that's because this new hardware is bigger as well as better and more expensive although 13th gen looks to be a bit of an outlier and hopefully is nice and competitively priced which is good to see now with any build you want to strip down all of the panels of the case to the top both the sides and the rear shout out to NZXT by the way for making it totally talless you literally haven't got a single screw very very easy very well designed and then we can lay the chassis down nice and flat I mean you can do this all right if you want to make your life difficult but I would suggest not making your life difficult and laying the case down flat taking a look in the chassis and pulling out my pointy screwdriver of Doom you'll be able to see that we've got some standoffs in here now we've got three at the top there's three down the middle and three along the bottom no extras that's important because they're going to line up perfectly with the standard ATX form factor that you'll find on this motherboard and most modern ATX motherboard designs taking a quick cursory glance you'll see three down the middle three down the bottom three up the top so they're all going to line up nice and easy and the board also has this fancy thing called a built-in rear IO Shield meaning we can simply drop it into place all the standoffs line up because we've checked it the i o Shield doesn't need installing beforehand and then in theory they all should just line up and we can pop some screws in to tighten it down try not to miss any out I mean you don't have to necessarily do all nine but it's probably for the best if you just go ahead and do all nine at this stage then I can go ahead next up and add the cooler in picking a cooler for these new CPUs is actually quite important looking at the specs this 12 13 I keep saying 12. I'm gonna one day I'll get into my head that it's not ryzen 5000 it's seven thousand and it's not 12th gen it's 13. these 13 900k chips can run warmer I mean the peat power consumption is like 225 Watts on this so having something capable of dispersing all the Heat and of course allowing us to overclock on this motherboard to over six gigahertz that's the first thing I think I'm gonna do when I boot this PC up is important and that's where nzxd's Kraken x73 comes in large radiator three RGB fans and it's going to fit perfectly in the front of the case oopsie it's gonna fit perfectly in the front of the case I'm going to add those in pop the block on top and that's where those thumb screws come in from earlier you want to go ahead and place these on all four corners of the CPU and just give them a nice Titan in a cross pattern which will fasten our cooler into place I actually had to place it with the tubes on the right hand side as they don't fit on the left there's too much heatsink on our vrms which is a good sign for overclocking it's something to think about if you've got a bulky air cooler this motherboard is maybe better suited to an all-in-one like this one where you can choose to decide that the tubes are on now then while the chassis is down here I think it makes sense to pop in the GPU next now when you're looking at a build like this there really is only one choice if you want to build the highest end most powerful gaming PC that one can possibly put together and that is of course the RTX 1490 here it is hallelujah oh it's the wrong way around here it is oh yeah I'm not gonna do that again now this is nvidia's most powerful graphics card ever and it weighs an absolute ton now for this build you've got a few options you could go for like a gigabyte card an MSI or an Asus to match the motherboard but you've got to be really careful of the size the founders Edition card which is this one here just a quick reminder 24 gigs of vram Two and a Half gigahertz clock speed DLS S3 I mean this thing is the business costs you a lot of money but it's very very powerful it's one of the smaller cards on the market believe it or not meaning it fits into this build absolutely fine but you've only probably got another four and a half five centimeters to play with about 40 millimeters so just be wary of the GPU you're gonna go for and the case that it fits in these cards are big triple slot beasts so make sure your case not only fits them but they look good and well proportioned inside the chassis you've selected with this being a large thick triple slot card we also need to just take out this rearmost PCI Lane removing that's going to give us of course the all-important clearance we need for the 1490 oh yeah baby pop this thing in I'm excited and then if we push it in we get a nice satisfying click sound and we can fasten it down through each of the three holes one here one here and one here this card is like a unibody s design meaning it doesn't really sag that much which is good but just be wary some of the big aftermarket cards you may want to add in a support bracket not only to keep it upright and looking good but to prevent damage to your PCI slot and other components in the build I talked about it extensively in our 4090 review and build videos but the 4090 as much as it's a great card it's a card that I would also recommend you think twice before buying do you actually need the power of a GPU like this of course I want to build myself the fastest PC possible but do you really need 200 frames per second at 4K and more importantly have you got a really expensive monitor that can best make advantage of a card like this or instead would you be better with the upcoming 4080 which I'm also presuming will be very good and then spending the spare cash on upgrading other elements of your setup and other parts of your gaming experience for the price of a 4090 you could build the sickest Sim set up in the world and have a PC to power it so it's definitely Food For Thought on that front talkative needed other components to work with the 4090 not only do you need a fast CPU introducing that 13th gen but also a good power supply 450 Watts for the GPU 250 for the CPU and we got 700 Watts already on two components so make sure you have a good power supply which is where where's it gone I keep losing power supplies recently this oh it's so heavy the Corsair fhx1000i comes into play now fully modular only plug-in cables you need I mean for like 200 300 I should bloody hope so it's also got a PCI Gen 5 power cable for our graphics card meaning we haven't got that horrible splitter to use I mean have you seen the size of this splitter not for me and of course it also has software control with a USB C port to cause that IQ because I mean of course it does actually kind of useful for monitoring our usage something that some people will be worried about on these new components but I assure you a thousand Watts for this build will be more than enough the GPU is 450 at Peak it's not running at that all the time same with the CPU I won't run through all the detailed cables and wiring but I have covered that before instead I'll let you watch me come manage this PC and make it look stunning I'm also going to pop in a couple of custom sleeve cable extensions in there too A good measure just to polish it all off and then I think we're going to be good to actually turn this thing on oh heavy really really heavy for the very first time before that we need to put all these side panels back into place let's start by adding in on the top panel first of all and this design just went a bit difficult doing it blind we'll leave the glass one off for now you'll see why in a second and then the back one is I mean sort of on but I think our cables need a bit more work in order for that to stay exactly in its place and then we can plug up our keyboard a Wired Mouse and of course the monitor lovely jubbly oh yeah and the PC how on Earth could I possibly forget that stage the motherboard is already lit up so we can go ahead we're just going to use the power button on the motherboard rather than the front panel one for now to see what happens okay we've got some RGB fans are spinning I'm not sure the front one the front one's spinning no no the front ones aren't spinning I think they're not quite wired up properly but the back one is okay we've got some RGB wiring to mess about with but we're not a million miles away well hey we got marginally interrupted I've come back and the monitor's like yes I'm gonna work and I'm like yeah I'm gonna celebrate nice so if we jump into the biops F1 tidy now damn what the viewers at home don't know is this is not actually screwed together so that could have very nearly been a way hey well hey and then if we jump into the biosh you see we've got a few things going on we can go ahead and enable XMP for the memory to get that running at the right speed two 16 gig dimms we've got our I9 13 900k on our Rogue Maximus z790 hero the only thing really we need to do is use a little bit of the AI OC tool let's hit enable this will enable AI optimization for your CPU frequency this sounds like cheating and I like it all that's left to do then really is install Windows which we can do with a bootable USB a full guide on how to do this is over on our website then we can dive in and see how well it performs before looking at detailed benchmarks though of the 3900k you guys want to know how this thing actually looks when all the RGB is configured in software and when the whole thing is looking superb so I'll see you in just a few moments but first it's time for a customary geeko op Montage oh yes the 13th gen Intel processors but when we are together it's time to see how well this system actually performs and whether the new I9 is actually a worthy upgrade spoiler alert this chip is insane let's look at the CPU specific benchmarks and roll through to the gaming ones as we go taking a look at cinebench R23 and the i930 900k comes out on top by a hefty margin we're talking four and a half thousand points more than amd's new ryzen 9 7950x a chip that costs 50 more than this one and a whopping 12 000 more that's nearly a 50 increase over the last gen I9 12900k move over to single threaded numbers and Intel once again retain their reputation of being single thread Kings single thread of course is the most important for gaming the I9 13900k once again beats out the ryzen 9 7950x only by around five percent but it's still a decisive win and top the last generation i912 900k by around 300 points or around about 20 moving on to the 3D Mark CPU profile test and the results speak for themselves even this single thread core was faster than any other processor we've tested the multi-core score topped the charts this thing delivers on every front something once again demonstrated in our final two synthetic benchmarks 3D marks Times by extreme for dx12 testing and 3D Max fire strike standard for dx11 our DX to our results were great the I9 topped the charts when testing with a 6950 XT as we did with all the CPUs to keep the charts fair and the results in 3D marks firestrike were once again the same with an even higher margin here over the next best CPU a chip then that looks like it's going to match up the 1490 very well indeed and in our results today that's exactly what happened we started off with OverWatch 2 we'll ease the build in with an easier but still a brand new title and here at 4K using true 4K so no render scaling I achieved 304 frames per second on average as a reference point this gave us a higher frame rate than what we saw when testing with the ryzen 9 7 900 or 7950x and the game looked buttery smooth as you'd come to expect in Formula One 2022 when testing using the game's inbuilt benchmarking mode there is also once again very good 4K Ultra High preset we got 237 FPS on average the game looked absolutely stood in and our I9 made sure we didn't see a CPU bottleneck here something we have previously seen across the board with our 4090 testing Battlefield 2042 at 4K and the results were once again very good 4K High settings 122 FPS on average strong 90 and 99 percentile results and as always our frame rate data was tested with both MSI afterburners Reaver tuner and Nvidia frame view moving on to Apex Legends at 1080p High settings here we poured in 300 FPS on average which by my records at 1080p is our highest Apex frame rate ever recorded the good results carried on through to 4K where the frame rate loss was pretty minimal 239 on average this was 37 FPS more than with a comparable ryzen 9 chip and an RTX 1490 and once again sits as the best gaming result we've ever achieved in Apex Legends it was a similarly positive story in fortnite where at 1080p competitive settings 1080p of course really testing whether the CPU is going to create a bottleneck and we achieved over 300 frames per second here 300 FPS on average with this I9 and 4090 combo finally in Marvel's Spider-Man remastered at 4K High settings with dlss once again enabled it makes sense to use dlss and the new DLS S3 on this build wherever possible and here we achieved 200 frames per second on average when testing at that 4K High preset of course with this build all of our results were captured with the 4090 graphics card so you can see how the system performs but we did run General benchmarks using a 6950 XT and all the different CPUs we have available you can learn more about those controlled results over on our website and I'll link reviews to the new I5 i7 and I9 chips Down Below have Intel reclaimed their crown of the top CPU performance after just three weeks away from the fold yes they have 13th gen is an impressive architecture this still supports ddr4 costs less money to get up and running than ryzen 7000 and does so with efficient thermals and good tdps you can learn more about the new Intel chips and all the parts mentioned in today's build down below thanks for tuning in and as always we'll see you in the next one for more PC Building fun a release that's what I call it\n"