It’s not board specific, it’s an issue with the socket while it’s not “necessary”, for the price of the ThermalRight one there really is no reason to not use one.

intel states the 12900ks is only capable of support UP to 4800 mt/s

No they don’t. That’s the maximum rated memory speed, not a limit. Anything beyond 4800 is an overclock and not guaranteed but any 12900K should do 6000+ without a problem.

or PSU or RAM

The PSU will have absolutely no impact on any benchmark score. It either supplies enough power or it doesn’t and shuts itself off.

Also, Cinebench specifically is not very sensitive to RAM timings or speed.

Bitsum doesn’t make bloat.

The best solution is just to turn on the high performance mode in windows 11. Everything hits the P cores first and if the first thread is exhausted it uses an E core.

Enabling High Performance mode does not change the scheduling of processes…

Intercourse mainframe

I always thought about i5 as slow processors

Why though?