It can lower temps by about 5c. Is that necessary? If you are overclocking, water cooling or using heavy multi core workloads then sure. A contact frame can be had for $5 these days.

For gaming tho, no. Games don’t run hot enough for 5c to matter much

Does the 3060ti not maintain 60fps raster in any game you are playing right now? If it does then keep it. Only upgrade when you can’t do 60fps

When it can no longer maintain over 60 fps in a game I am playing. Usually works out to every 6 years or so

Very cool technology to be sure. Maybe eventually this tech trickles down to mainstream so it’s relevant to most people. Right now even enthusiasts will never even see one of those in person let alone use it, so it isn’t really all that relevant

Upgraded my 7700k for a 13700k in January. Wasn’t about to play Phantom Liberty at sub 60fps

There are 2 possible answers here. 1 apo requires a specific new component on the cpu that older chips don’t have. Or 2, intel is just screwing old gen chips to pressure buyers into buying the 14th gen