[xh43k]

Interesting.. I dont have such issue, but when I was testing this I noticed that when I enable Power saver plan, my 13700k draws around 18W at idle.. when I enabled balanced again it went down to 4W.. lol.

 

[xh43k]

There are also a lot of strong opinions out there stateing that changeing a cpu should always go hand in hand with a fresh windows install.

This I don't get.. yes everyone can have opinions but from SW perspective there is nothing to gain there, unless people tinkered with their OS beyond normal user interaction and they then basically restore it to normal condition.