Just sharing my views on this processor.
I always thought about i5 as slow processors, but I was checking the benchmarks and its amazingly fast and in gaming some cases even defeated i9 13900k
Intel Core i5-13600K Review | PCMag
The single core performance is really strong almost (slightly less) around Ryzen 9 7950X.
And now the prices are reasonable. Intel has done a great job with raptor lake 13th gen

  • joe0185@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    But I might not have if I had a Z motherboard and could overclock.

    For single threaded performance, it’s not really worth the upgrade. But for multithreaded applications it’s definitely a worthy upgrade compared to just overclocking.

    • SnooPandas2964@alien.topBEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Indeed I am very happy with it. I was quite afraid of the thermals ( heard a lot of horror stories, but my 240mm aio handles it like a champ). To be honest, I didn’t really need it, but felt that with a 4090 I should have at least 8 p cores and some higher boost clocks since chances are I’m gonna be on lga1700 for a long time. I really dont like mobo upgrades…