We aren't against it, but Intel disabled DLVR support on the original Raptor Lake for a reason. It was present and enabled in early i9-13900K engineering samples, after all. My guess is that it's one of those features that just have too many errata, and considered it interfaces directly with the chip's power supply, it was probably deemed a risk to leave it enabled. The truth is, we don't know if DLVR will or will not make an appearance with the refresh, Intel hasn't said anything on the matter yet, I just wouldn't hold my breath.
To address your questions: no, my processor isn't delidded, I run it stock with an undervolt. If I'm not mistaken, it's
@Solaris17 who delidded his 13900KS and runs it on a swanky water-cooled setup. He may be able to tell you more about that procedure than I can. About the memory, yes, you can use it, but I can't guarantee that you will get high speeds
and tight timings on a 4 DIMM board. My Z690 ACE with a single rank Hynix A 6800 CL34 kit (2x 16 GB) walled at 6400 CL30, even with the improvements in Z790 regarding memory speed, you may be asking too much of this topology. Will probably work if the sticks aren't dual rank, though.
Regarding an eventual i9-14900KS: I find it exceptionally unlikely that they will release an SKU with a 6.5 TVB target, it's just too high for this process node. Intel's been having issues supplying the 13900KS as it is, these are hand picked CPUs, there are not many of them. If you want to run 6.0 on all 8 P-cores on this processor, you're going to need custom water and it
will use more than 400 W of power, probably more than 450 W even. Mine is undervolted by 0.050V on both P-, E- and their respective cache slices, 5.6 on 6 of the P-cores and 6.0 on the remaining two and it chugs 320 W under full load like it's nothing.
