What parking settings should I choose for the i5-13600KF?

[Rijvo]

As per the title, I have no idea what the best parking settings are for the i5-13600KF.

[Jeremy Collake]

Hi Rijvo, welcome!

There isn't one best setting for the 13600KF. It depends on whether you care more about responsiveness or about lower power and heat at idle. Here's a simple way to choose:

1. For gaming or maximum responsiveness, select the Bitsum Highest Performance power plan in ParkControl. It keeps all cores unparked, so the CPU never has to wait for a parked core to wake up.
2. For a good balance, use Dynamic Boost. It switches to Bitsum Highest Performance while you're using the PC and drops back to Balanced when you're idle. For most people this is the best of both worlds.
3. If you mostly care about low power and heat, stay on Balanced and leave its parking settings at their defaults.

On a hybrid chip like yours (6 P-cores and 8 E-cores), Windows 11 already decides which threads go to P-cores and which go to E-cores, so there's no need to fine-tune parking per core type. Pick one of the options above and see how it feels.

If you notice stutters or slowdowns with a particular setup, let us know what you're running and we can look into it.