Unboxing and Photography

The Intel Core i9-13900KS comes in a fancy box, cushioned neatly in plastic cylinder that's designed to resemble a silicon wafer. A cooler is not included in the box.


The Core i9-13900KS processor package looks just like other 13th gen and 12th Gen processors, as it shares the same LGA1700 socket. It's backwards-compatible with 600-series chipset motherboards with a BIOS update.


Intel Socket LGA1700 has an intuitive installation process that should be familiar from many past LGA sockets. Trouble is that it comes with a different cooler mount-hole spacing than LGA1200 and the five different Socket-H series sockets before it, so you'll need to search for a compatible cooler, which should be no problem, since LGA1700 has been on the market for several years now.