Intel® Core™ i5-13600K Processor
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12/28/2022
Summary9 Total ScoreEditor choice INTEL CORE i5-13600K ReviewExcellent stock speed performance, plenty of overclocking headroom and a reasonable price...
topnewreview.comProsExcellent overclocking potential, Fantastic gaming and content creation performance for the cash, Reasonable temperatures,
ConsPower-hungry, depending on motherboard power limits, Ryzen 7 5800X3D can be cheaper for gaming, Still quite expensive
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11/23/2022
SummaryTime for a massive benchmark comparison between the AMD Ryzen 5 7600X and Intel Core i5-13600K, we'll be covering 54 games across three resolutions using the GeForce RTX 4090, so that's quite a bit of data to go over.When we reviewed these CPUs we check...
techspot.com
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11/09/2022
ProsStrong performance for a midrange CPU, Competitively priced, Generous core count for the money, Heat stayed in check under stress, albeit with a 240mm water cooler
ConsPrice higher than equivalent last-gen chip, Power-hungrier than before, Runs hotter than Core i5-12600K
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11/03/2022
SummaryWell, the hits keep on coming, Intel has managed to push the limits even further now with the 13th Gen CPUs, especially with the i9-13900K which has a crazy max turbo speed of 5.8 GHz. In all of our single-core and single-thread tests, the 13900K took...
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10/31/2022
SummaryLast week I looked at the Intel Core i9 13900K performance under Linux while today the focus is on the Core i5 13600K. The Core i5 13600K is a 14-core / 20-thread processor (6 P cores + 8 E cores), up from 6 P cores + 4 E cores with the prior generation C...
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10/23/2022
SummaryIntel Core i9-13900K and Intel Core i5-13600K - test units provided by Intel GermanyWith Raptor Lake, Intel sends a worthy successor to the Alder Lake generation into the ring. It was also time for this, since with its current lineup, AMD has raced ahead...
notebookcheck.netProsvery high gaming performance, high application performance, very good multi-core performance, low power consumption during idle operation, up to 32 threads, PCI Express 5.0, appropriate cost of the 13600K
Consextremely high power consumption under load, high cost of the 13900K
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10/21/2022
ProsGaming performance close to a Core i9 12900K, Multithreaded performance close to a Core i9 12900K, Basically a Core i9, Fairly efficient, Cheaper 600
ConsHotter and hungrier than the Core i5 12600K, Slower than lastgen in some games
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10/20/2022
SummaryPower aside, AMD and Intel are both in very competitive position right now. Despite coming at the problem of PC performance with two vastly different architectures (who had Intel leading the core count wars on their 2022 bingo card?), the two have arrived...
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10/20/2022
SummaryTruthfully, I cherish the Core i5 13600K. This is what a gamer needs, appropriately fast and reasonably affordable. The new processor will undoubtedly deliver on many fronts and then has some extra reserve. It'll be fun to tweak with, and offers great gam...
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10/20/2022
SummaryIsn't it fun when something arrives and you start off with thinking one thing, and end up coming away with quite a different impression?We know from past experience that the Intel Core i9 processors are fantastic performers, and we are nothing if not obse...
overclock3d.net
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