Which 12/13th Gen Intel CPU For 4080/4090 @ 1440p?

[BigCow74]

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i9-13900K or is there something else cheaper that is just as good and maybe runs cooler?

For MSFS, I think the i5-13600K could work. With MSFS being largely single thread limited, all the extra cores on the i9 are not as important.