AH Real Deal: Intel’s Core I7-12700KF CPU Is Now $169

Amazon has a really good deal right now on the Intel Core i7-12700KF CPU that you won’t want to pass up if you’re looking for an upgrade. While this is a CPU that originally launched in 2021, it launched at a full retail price of around $384. Amazon has it for $169 down from its already discounted price of $189.99, so this is a really good price for this CPU.

It’s a really good processor for gaming and multitasking, so if either of those is your main concern, then you’ll definitely benefit from having this chip inside of your PC. The one thing to keep in mind is that it supports Intel motherboards that are based on the Intel 600 Series and Intel 700 Series chipsets. So you’ll want to make sure that the motherboard you have is compatible with this CPU before buying it or upgrade the motherboard if necessary.

In terms of multitasking performance, this CPU is great. While there are certainly faster, better-performing CPUs out there now for this, the Intel Core i7-12700KF is still capable of handling mostly whatever you throw at it. That includes gaming sessions that are resource-heavy, and even playing while streaming and running other apps in the background.

This CPU has 8 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. It also has a minimum clock speed of 2.7GHz for the efficiency cores and 3.6GHz for the performance cores. Meanwhile, the max clock speed for both sets of cores is 3.8GHz and 5GHz respectively. Additionally, it has support for DDR5 RAM and PCIe Gen 5, as well as Thunderbolt 4 and Killer WiFi 6E.

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