Surprisingly enough for high end gaming. Bought mine in Feb 23 and has been going strong ever since.
Performance is great. A perfect gaming CPU if on a slight budget.

Paired with AORUS WATERFORCE X 360. Runs cool as a cucumber.

Great CPU, would recommend it. Rendering in programs such as Blender and Unreal Engine 5 are so much easier since getting the i5. Gaming has also been highly improved upon since installing it into PC. I would recommend it to anyone who is in the market for a PC that needs to do some heavy lifting.

This i5 has been performing beautifully for me. In combination with my Scythe Fuma 3 air cooler, it runs cool and fast. It's an i7 in disguise. Fantastic high-end performance at a good price.

I have a Coolermaster AIO paired with this beast and I'm sitting at 29C on idle and max 60C under load. This CPU performs like a beast when paired with a Z790 chipset motherboard and I certainly don't regret my purchase at all.

I was torn between this and the 13400F. I ended up spending the extra money for (hopefully) some future-proofing. I got the Thermalright contact frame and an AIO and the temperatures are nice and low.

Upgraded from a R5 3600 as AM5 was too expensive! Although LGA1700 is at end of life this CPU is worth it. Will last for the next 3-4 years! Cyberpunk 2077 and other AAA games smooth like butter! Coupled with a 3070ti or 6800XT this is a beast of a CPU for streaming and gameplay at 1440p Ultra. I would not recommend using this with a 3060/3060ti/6800 or any lower GPU as it would bottleneck the CPU by like 10% or more.

Service was great and Wootware stepped in to update the bios for the B660 board. Great! Only thing is the delivery system needs work.

I was unpleasantly surprised when I bought this and ran a couple benchmarks after getting low FPS at 1080P at Max Graphics. I combined the i5-13600KF with a RTX3090, 32GB Corsair 3600mhz Ram and Asus Prime Z690-P D4 motherboard. I got a average score on Single thread scores but a 20% less than average score on the multi thread scores. Running Windows 11 and have XMP and Turbo active in Bios. Really disappointing as I thought that the i5-13600kf is a flagship gaming CPU but it seems it is currently bottlenecking my GPU and I don't know why. I am supposed to get the current FPS at 2k and 4k not at 1080P.

If you are planning to buy a graphics card anyway then I don't think there is a better CPU you can buy at this price point. Is super fast, gets up to 5.1 Ghz consistently with no overclocking necessary, just pop it in the motherboard with some decent cooling and a GPU and you have an excellent CPU for work or gaming.

With i5 13600KF you are getting real Raptor Lake silicon, improved integrated memory controller, efficiency, and bigger cache. Perfect for multi tasking such as gaming and Dev work. Only con, it is a power hungry CPU but undervolting it fixes the issue easily.

This CPU packs a punch and able to overclock with ease. Although not needed, as it boosts 5.1GHz out the box. With 5.3 overclock which is nothing for this chip. ( people putting 5.6Ghz without problems and world recond is on 7.4Ghz with LN2).
This CPU beats a Ryzen 9 5900X