While the Intel Core i5 13400F clearly has a '13' in its name, this budget gaming CPU has more in common with Intel's last gen Alder Lake CPUs than the current Raptor Lake chips. For a start, this CPU ...

Today Intel has launched its 14th Gen Raptor Lake refresh desktop processors, which promise better gaming and content creation performance and here we'll be taking a look at the Core i5-14600K and ...

It hasn't been a great time to build a computer on a budget. Some of that is due to ongoing supply issues and a particularly nasty GPU shortage (albeit one that may be very gradually easing). And some ...

For all the love (and controversy) super-high-end graphics cards like the Nvidia GeForce RTX 4090 get these days, little is said about the golden age of CPUs we're living in, but the Intel Core ...

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