Fancy, expensive processors are fun, but for most people who just want to build a decent middle-of-the-road PC for gaming (and anything else), the best advice is usually to buy a Core i5 or Ryzen 5 ...

Intel’s first Core processors made their debut in 2006. At this point, children born in the same year are almost old enough to drink. Over a dozen generations of Intel Core i3, Core i5, and Core i7 ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. When it comes to ...

With six performance cores and hyper-threading, meet the Core i5 12400, what could be the most sought-after budget-friendly and rightly performing Alder Lake series CPU for use on a gaming platform ...

Rocket Lake is finally here and today we're checking out the new Core i5-11600K. That's right, for this generation we're skipping a day-one look at the Core i9 and even the Core i7 part, and instead ...

Intel’s Core i5 and Core i7 CPUs are some of the most classically popular Intel processors, but that naming convention was retired with its Meteor Lake CPUs in 2023, replaced with a new Core Ultra ...