Question can i7 14700kf will be fine with Cooler Master ML360L V2 ARGB WHITE LIQUID COOLER

[thestryker]

I learned from @uWebb429 that K SKUs are the voltage/power leaky, imperfect chips. The non-Ks are the good ones.
Notice how the Ks are released first? They didn't meet Intel's requirements for non-K, it's not the other way around.

This is flat out wrong. The K SKUs are binned for performance which means they can be leaky, but that is not a guarantee. The binning goals for each SKU is different, but K SKUs end up with the most variance. Many non-K SKUs would never be able to reach the higher clocks which is why they end up where they do. There are also some very efficient K SKUs because they could reach high clocks. The only SKUs you can really say with any certainty get the best die are KS and HX.

 

[Phaaze88]

This is flat out wrong. The K SKUs are binned for performance which means they can be leaky, but that is not a guarantee. The binning goals for each SKU is different, but K SKUs end up with the most variance. Many non-K SKUs would never be able to reach the higher clocks which is why they end up where they do. There are also some very efficient K SKUs because they could reach high clocks. The only SKUs you can really say with any certainty get the best die are KS and HX.

There's more to these chips than performance/clocks - balance of performance and power efficiency should be, IMO.

KS can't be the best dies, when there are Ks out there with better bins. Someone buying a KS guarantees they don't get a bronze sample from Intel, but another can buy a K and get lucky with a platinum sample.

 

[thestryker]

There's more to these chips than performance/clocks - balance of performance and power efficiency should be, IMO.

KS can't be the best dies, when there are Ks out there with better bins. Someone buying a KS guarantees they don't get a bronze sample from Intel, but another can buy a K and get lucky with a platinum sample.

You don't seem to quite get how binning works based what you wrote here. Binning isn't only good/bad chips it's a spectrum that meets the requirements for each SKU (base and boost clocks within the rated TDP range) with required volume factored in. KS/HX chips are guaranteed to be the best chips across the board due to the tighter binning requirements. The worst KS will be better than the worst K and the best KS will be better than the best K. This doesn't mean there won't be overlap it just means the concentration will be shifted which has been shown by binning reports from 12th/13th generation (I haven't seen any 14th gen that include KS).

The F/KF SKUs are the exception on desktop because these are die that cannot be repurposed for mobile or used in KS SKUs. That means there are F/KF chips that can match KS/HX in respective performance/efficiency, but you need to win the silicon lottery or bin yourself for that.