u/Impossible-Lie3115

My daughter's old PC with a 6700k and 5070 is starting to show its age in modern games with annoying 1% lows. Perfectly good 4k60 with 60% gpu load and then BAM 14fps 1% hitching. Games like HZD etc are like 75% cpu load at all times and are obviously a bottleneck.

Looking at a used motherboard combo with a non-K 11500.

1. should this significantly help with the 1%?

2. can the L12S handle the "65W" TDP? I see reviews that it settles around 70W but can spike to 120W+ under short boost durations. Can this little cooler handle it?

I have a full ATX power supply in there and dont want to spend an additional $160 for an SFX to fit a new AIO just to address some 1% lows. That would be nearly $400 total upgrade.