Intel Core i5-13600KF drops to $149 – glorious mid-range gaming CPU returns to its lowest-ever worth

An amazing mid-range gaming CPU, the Intel Core i5-13600KF, has matched its lowest-ever worth. At Woot, the CPU has fallen to $149.99, which, in line with CamelCamelCamel and PCPartPicker, is pretty much as good because it will get by means of on-line retail.

Keep in thoughts this chip does not have built-in graphics. But for a gaming PC, you will need among the best graphics playing cards anyway.

In our testing, we have discovered that the Core i5-13600KF is successfully equal to the newer Core i5-14600KF. The thirteenth Gen chip got here inside single-digit body counts in opposition to the 14th Gen Core possibility at each 1080p and 1440p in our evaluation. And that 14th Gen chip presently prices $50 extra.

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The thirteenth Gen Core i5 packs 6 P-cores at as much as 5.1 GHz increase (3.5 GHz base) and eight E-cores (2.6 GHz base and three.9 GHz increase), for a complete of 20 threads. The chip helps 16 lanes of PCIe 5.0 and 4 PCIe 4.0 lanes.

If you are trying to purchase a motherboard to go along with the 13600KF, be certain it has an LGA 1700 socket.

We discovered you could push this chip to the identical degree because the Ryzen 7 5800X3D when overclocked, and even carry it near the Core i9-13900K. That’s not dangerous for those who’re keen to purchase a board with an overclockable chipset and play with BIOS settings.

You can learn our full evaluation of the Core i5-13600K, the place we referred to as it “class-leading performance at its price point,” — and that was at a better worth, albeit just a few years in the past. Newer CPUs have, in fact, hit the market since then, however at $149, the 13600K is a superb gaming or mid-range productiveness chip.