The Intel 13th Gen Core i9-13900K (Raptor Lake)
13th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-13900K – the world’s fastest desktop processor1. The new 13th Gen Intel Core family includes six new unlocked desktop processors with up to 24 cores and 32 threads and blazing clock speeds up to 5.8 GHz for the best gaming, streaming and recording experience2.
Led by the launch of the Intel Core “K” processors, the 13th Gen Intel Core desktop family will consist of 22 processors and more than 125 partner system designs – providing an uncompromising experience in both application performance and platform compatibility. Enthusiasts can take advantage of 13th Gen Intel Core processors’ performance improvements with existing Intel® 600 or new Intel® 700 series chipset motherboards. Combined with both the latest DDR5 memory support and continued DDR4 memory support, users can enjoy the benefits of 13th Gen Intel Core while customizing their setup based on their own feature and budget preferences.
Installation
For our installation, we used a Vertical Open Chassis. Everything fitted nicely and there was plenty of room in and around the Intel LGA1700 processor socket. We also used a Cooler Master MasterLiquid PL 240 AIO cooler, which seem to handle the load temperatures of the Core i9-13900K.
Beacuse ASRock Z790 Taichi has a E-ATX form factor, which is slightly larger than your standard full-size ATX, please check the size of your chassis and make sure it supports E-ATX motherboards.
BIOS
One the 1st page of the BIO you’ll see the default “Easy Mode” where you can monitor all the system status on this page. Since our DDR5 ram is XMP 3.0 ready, we selected Profile 1 and rand the memory at DDR5-6200 speeds. All other BIOS settings were left on AUTO/Default.
If you enable “Advanced Mode”, you’ll then see all the other options available for tweaking your processor, memory and more. Voltages for memory and processor can also be adjusted here .
The advanced tab allows users to configure settings for CPU, chipset, storage and NVMe, LEDs, as well as onboard devices such as LAN, audio, and Bluetooth. For overclockers, the BIOS allows CPU and memory overclocking, and you can also set the CPU frequency and voltages too.
For memory compatibility and QVL (qualified vendors list), I recommend you check ASRock’s QVL page here.
