AH Real Deal: Intel Core i5-13600K drops to all-time low price

Amazon’s Black Friday sale has already started and that means you can now find the Intel Core i5-13600K CPU on sale for its lowest price ever. At full retail, this CPU would normally cost you $329, but if you pick it up during the Black Friday sale you can snag it for $210 instead. That will end up saving you $119 all said and done.

This is a 13th Gen processor from Intel so it shouldn’t have the same kinds of crashing issues that the more recent 14th Gen CPUs have been having. That honestly makes this CPU an even better value. Because it should be more reliable and you get it at a decent discount.

If you’re like me and you’re still using a CPU that’s several years old, then it’s time to upgrade. This is a great entry-level to mid-range CPU for a gaming PC too if you’re not looking for the top-of-the-line gaming performance. It has 14 cores and 20 threads to handle all of your computing tasks and it can be overclocked to a maximum of 5.1 GHz if you need or want to do that.

This CPU also supports both PCIe Gen 4.0 and PCIe Gen 5.0. This means you can also upgrade your SSDs if they’re on the older side as well. Keep in mind that your motherboard will also need to be compatible with those generations. Additionally, it supports DDR4 and DDR5 RAM.

This is a pretty powerful CPU capable of handling both gaming and multitasking thanks to its performance cores and efficiency cores. So don’t worry about it not being able to handle whatever you throw at it.

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