

Components
Intel introduced the lower Raptor Lake processors, significantly strengthening the Core i5 and leaving the Core i3 at the same level
Intel has unveiled the remaining Raptor Lake desktop processors it didn’t announce in the fall. Over the past months, we have learned a lot about them, but now we can put an end to it.
Almost all new products have become much better than their direct predecessors due to the increase in the number of cores, while technically the younger representatives of the line rely on exactly the same cores as Alder Lake. Only the Core i3-13100/13100F/13100T remained almost unchanged, as they only have four large cores, like their predecessors.
CPU | Number of cores/threads | Frequencies, GHz | TDP, W | Price, USD |
Core i9-13900/13900F | 24/32 (8P+16E) | 2.0-5.6 | 65 | 549/524 |
Core i9-13900T | 24/32 (8p+16E) | 1.1-5.3 | 35 | 549 |
Core i7-13700/13700F | 16/24 (8P+8E) | 2.1-5.2 | 65 | 384/359 |
Core i7-13700T | 16/24 (8P+8E) | 1.4-4.9 | 35 | 384 |
Core i5-13600 | 14/20 (6P+8E) | 2.7-5.0 | 65 | 255 |
Core i5-13600T | 14/20 (6P+8E) | 1.8-4.8 | 35 | 255 |
Core i5-13500 | 14/20 (6P+8E) | 2.5-4.8 | 65 | 232 |
Core i5-13500T | 14/20 (6P+8E) | 1.6-4.6 | 35 | 232 |
Core i5-13400/13400F | 10/16 (6P+4E) | 2.5-4.6 | 65 | 221/196 |
Core i5-13400T | 10/16 (6P+4E) | 1.3-4.4 | 35 | 221 |
Core i3-13100/13100F | 4/8 (4P) | 3.4-4.5 | 60/58 | 134/109 |
Core i3-13100T | 4/8 (4p) | 2.5-4.2 | 35 | 134 |
As for prices, the situation is curious. Formally, we can say that the new CPUs cost about the same as the old ones, although here you need to look specifically for each model. But the nuance is that today Intel raised the prices of the Alder Lake line, and the prices of some Raptor Lakes correspond exactly to the new Alder Lake prices. However, about six months ago, Intel directly said that it would raise prices. And it’s not a fact that Raptor Lake will not rise in price in the foreseeable future either.

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Attraction of unheard of generosity. Aorus FO48U 48″ OLED 4K Gaming Monitor Drops $670 in the US – Nearly Halved in Price

Large monitor-TVs with a 48-inch OLED panel from well-known computer hardware manufacturers could not appear on sale for a long time after the announcement, but eventually they appeared, and now they can even be found much cheaper than the initial price. So, the American retailer Newegg immediately reduced the cost of the Aorus FO48U by $670. As a result, the price almost halved: from $1,500 to $830.
Although the device is advertised as being 48 inches, the OLED screen actually measures 47.53 inches diagonally. The frame rate is 120 Hz and the resolution is 3840 x 2160 pixels. The monitor provides coverage of 98% of the DCI-P3 color space and 130% of the sRGB color space.
The Aorus FO48U is configured with a KVM switch, three speakers with a total power of 50W, one DisplayPort 1.4 and two HDMI 2.1 connectors, a USB-C port (for KVM) and a pair of USB 3.0 Type-A, an RJ-45 port.
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The first PCIe 5.0 custom SSD with 10 GB/s read speeds went on sale in Japan. The price is impressive
Few have heard of CFD Gaming, but meanwhile, it began selling a high-speed solid-state drive with support for the PCIe 5.0 interface in Japan, and not only online – the device was found at a point of sale in the well-known Akihabara area (Tokyo).
In fact, the SSD was introduced back in October last year, and it was supposed to go on sale in November. But everything took a little longer. The device will have three memory options – 1, 2 and 4 TB. The middle model has appeared on sale in retail, and they are asking for $ 385 for it!
The price is decent, however, and the parameters are not average. So, sequential read and write speeds are 10 and 9.5 GB / s, respectively, random read performance is 1.5 million IOPS, and writes are 1.25 million IOPS.
The SSD is equipped with a cooling system with an active element – a fan. Reportedly, the cooling system is non-removable, and the manufacturer itself does not recommend installing the drive in poorly ventilated cases.
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Move over Nvidia! An enthusiast showed that it is quite possible to play on a PC with AMD Ryzen 7 6800H and integrated Radeon 680M graphics

It seems that integrated video cards are gradually catching up with full-fledged discrete solutions. In any case, this applies to AMD. The author of the YouTube channel zWORMz Gaming tested a PC with an AMD Ryzen 7 6800H processor and integrated Radeon 680M graphics. As it turned out, the results are comparable to mass discrete graphics cards.
For testing, we used a Beelink SER6 Pro mini PC with 32 GB of RAM and a 512 GB SSD. Games ran at 1080p, almost all of them ran at low graphics settings.
The results of testing games with low graphics settings:
- Cyberpunk 2077 – 40 FPS (with FSR Quality enabled).
- Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales – 45 (very low graphics settings).
- Dying Light 2 – 39 FPS.
- Red Dead Redemption 2 – 39 FPS.
- Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0 – 56 FPS.
- Forza Horizon 5 – 79 FPS.
- PUBG – 55 FPS.
- Apex Legends – 76 FPS.
- Overwatch 2 – 119 FPS.
- Fortnite – 138 FPS.
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive – 199 FPS.
Results at high settings:
- Dota 2 – 98 FPS.
- Grand Theft Auto 5 – 69 FPS.
- Valorant – 196 FPS.
Thus, the “embedding” turned out to be at a level between the GeForce GTX 1650 and GeForce RTX 3050. Of course, with an increase in graphics quality, the frame rate will drop, however, in fact, even on an office PC with a Ryzen 7 6800H mobile processor, you can play.
The price of such a PC is $659.
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