Getting PC's with a Intel Core i9 13900KS

Onetime_2

You see them advertised but there seems to be very few such chips going around in the UK, does anyone know of a PC company that actually has these for new PC's rather than just advertisements? Many thanks if you have any ideas.

Neil_Jones

There is a silicon shortage for processors, and its not unique to intel,:

https://www.androidauthority.com/computer-chip-shortage-1212941/

Even though Intel make their own processors, it doesn't make them immune to supply shortages - silicon and semi conductors and things like that are part of the manufacture process.

However there are signs that this is beginning to ease so in due course such stuff will start appearing in due course.

Onetime_2

That's good to know, what got me was that some vendors tell you up front when you contact them that this makes the normal four to five weeks wait impossible to hold to. Others don't and you can buy without realising it can take over two to three times as long as normal.

Should point put I am still looking so if anyone knows where you can get a good gaming PC with those chips do tell!

[Deleted User]

I was looking at a PC with this CPU in this week (not to buy, just window shopping) on display at Scan Computers.

Will take a few weeks for a build though:
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/3xs-vengeance-icue-extreme-intel-core-i9-13900ks-64gb-ddr5-24gb-asus-rtx-4090-2tb-m2-ssd-win-11

But you can buy the main system with next day delivery and build around it:
https://www.scan.co.uk/products/3xs-vengeance-icue-extreme-intel-core-i9-13900ks-64gb-ddr5-24gb-asus-rtx-4090-2tb-m2-ssd-win-11

But - I think you are going about it wrong if you are buying a PC based on the CPU alone - you need to look at it holistically and design around the workload and come up with a few potential build options, especially in that budget range. The 13900KS is overpriced for performance at the moment but without knowing what you are actually going to use the PC for it is hard to recommend an alternative.

booneruk

The KS CPU is a halo product that's designed to bluff people that mhz is all that matters and that 6000mhz is what you need to aspire to. The CPUs that are released as KS variants would have been 'binned' (qualified) for the higher speed which means there are a limited number.

You'll save a chunk of money and get 95%+ the same performance with the 13900k

MattMattMattUK

Onetime_2 said:

You see them advertised but there seems to be very few such chips going around in the UK, does anyone know of a PC company that actually has these for new PC's rather than just advertisements? Many thanks if you have any ideas.

Normally a PC at that level would be self built, or come from a specialist gaming PC builder. The chip itself has been released to OEMs but not into retail, thought he standard K variant has. In reality the performance gains from the KS overclocked to 6GHz are tiny, require extra cooling and outside of extreme benchmarking you are unlikely to be able to tell the difference. 

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/intel-core-i9-13900ks-raptor-lake-socket-lga1700-processor-retail-bx8071513900ks-cp-6bf-in.html
https://www.overclockers.co.uk/intel-core-i9-13900k-raptor-lake-socket-lga1700-processor-retail-cp-6az-in.html

Onetime_2 said:

That's good to know, what got me was that some vendors tell you up front when you contact them that this makes the normal four to five weeks wait impossible to hold to. Others don't and you can buy without realising it can take over two to three times as long as normal.

Should point put I am still looking so if anyone knows where you can get a good gaming PC with those chips do tell!

Unless you are self building then ignore the KS and even if you are unless you have very deep pockets and a love of tinkering then go for the K instead. Even just the standard F variant will make little difference unless you plan to overclock and really care about tiny performance gains. 

What is your budget, what are you looking at playing and what kind of monitor do you plan on using it with? If you are looking at an 13900 then you want a minimum of 32/64GB of fast DDR5, then you should be paring it with nothing less than a RTX 4080 an realistically a RTX 4090, a high end motherboard and a good chunk of water cooling for the CPU (an AIO would be fine, but a big one). 

Onetime_2

Scan are one of those who don't have it atm. I am looking into the K now.