News Rebadged Alder Lake CPU is priced higher than the new Arrow Lake chip in retailer listing — Core 5 120 and Core 5 120F listed for $246 and $216

[Admin]

Bottom Line Telecommunications, Inc. has published listings for the Core 5 120 and Core 5 120F, including pricing information.

Rebadged Alder Lake CPU is priced higher than the new Arrow Lake chip in retailer listing — Core 5 120 and Core 5 120F listed for $246 and $216 : Read more

 

[usertests]

The market will sort that one out.

Arrow Lake's efficiency and improved iGPU makes it more interesting in the long run. Chips like that can last forever handling lighter duties.

 

[bit_user]

The Core i5-1200 5 Processor 120 features six P-cores (no E-cores), a 65W power rating, 18MB of L3 cache, a 2.5 GHz base clock, and a 4.5 GHz boost clock.
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At a price approaching $250, the vanilla Core 5 120 is significantly more expensive than most of Intel's newer Core i5 counterparts, including K-series variants.

Yeah, anyone who wants the Core 5 120 should really just get an old Core i5-12600, instead. You can find them for about the same price, but they have a higher base and boost clock.

Specs:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/u...o-4-80-ghz/specifications.html?wapkw=i5-12600
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Comparison:

https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/products/compare.html?productIds=96149,245112
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And while that comparison doesn't say the i5-12600 has DL Boost, I can tell you that it definitely does. They simply must've neglected to go back and update the old database entries, when they added that field.

I also hadn't noticed the new model has a cut back iGPU and media engine. Wow, that's really quite a ripoff.

 

[dimar]

is it coming to 700 chipset or 800 platform? why is this not mentioned?????

 

[bit_user]

is it coming to 700 chipset or 800 platform? why is this not mentioned?????

It's LGA1700. It will work on all of the same boards that supported Gen 12 - Gen 14 desktop CPUs. That means 600- and 700- series chipsets

 

[dimar]

It's LGA1700. It will work on all of the same boards that supported Gen 12 - Gen 14 desktop CPUs. That means 600- and 700- series chipsets

Might as well go back to Core 1st gen and higher and make a cheap CPU with PTT for those platforms to support Windows 11, so good working PCs don't go to trash.