Intel Core 5 120F.
this thing should have been a Core 3.


https://x.com/momomo_us/status/1933518227428291039

This post has been edited by Skylinestar: Jun 15 2025, 07:49 AM

Mapping Earth heat zone with unstable intel 13th/14th gen cpu

https://www.guru3d.com/story/firefox-crash-...-cpu-stability/

A Firefox engineer, Gabriele Svelto, noticed an unmistakable pattern: crash reports spike precisely from regions baking under intense summer heat.
To understand the user impact, imagine you’re working in an office without air conditioning on a 35 °C (95 °F) day. Your PC’s cooling might manage general tasks, but the moment you run something intensive in your browser, the CPU ticks up another 10–15 °C internally. That extra heat exposes the microcode timing glitches Intel warned about, and boom—you’re staring at a crash dialog.

Intel launches Core 5 120 and 120F

https://videocardz.com/newz/intel-launches-...e-i5-12400-skus

the Core 5 120 and Core 5 120F.
both chips are nearly identical to the Core i5-12400 and i5-12400F launched in early 2022.
use the LGA1700 socket, compatible with 12th to 14th Gen motherboards.

This post has been edited by Skylinestar: Aug 2 2025, 06:53 PM

...but why? This looks like a pretty unnecessary move from Intel

Respinning of 12400. I am still waiting for mythical Bartlettlake for last hurrah of LGA1700

Same here. Lets hope finance department doesn't screw them over again.

I like my Core Ultra 245K a lot.

Too bad Intel fans have been conditioned to think; "more power, more FPS!" so when Intel pull back both, fans cannot accept their losing to AM5.

Pushing FPS at low resolution, lose out by far.

Pushing FPS at high resolution (4K) range, the 245K is actually pretty darn good. Can't say the same for the 285K.

Multi-core workload, I'm quite surprised at what the 245K can deliver.

Expected ARL would be Intels Ryzen 1st gen moment, absolute shitshow and turns out it did, not as bad but fundamental mistakes with tile uarch making it slower than RPL and like for like AM5 (nonX3D).

Hopefully they have redesign Pantherlake to work out its weaknesses, but Im cautiously optimistic seeing as under LBT they no longer have the money to throw at innovative solutions. Perhaps Intel, like AMD until 3000 series to actually come out a competitive CPU design.

Free Battlefield 6
https://community.intel.com/t5/Blogs/Tech-I...le/post/1709874
https://www.techpowerup.com/340066/intel-to...-graphics-cards



This post has been edited by Skylinestar: Aug 20 2025, 08:16 AM

"the promotion is limited to select regions and participating retailers."

Malaysia is likely excluded or else just limited to a handful of distros & big resellers.

And its ironic Intel is promoting Gamer Day when it absolutely lost its gaming king CPU crown. Long live X3D CPU kings!

Haha nice

Not king but still more than enough for gaming. Not to mention, X3D is extremely overpriced for work+ gaming rigs.

No? X3D CPU is totally thrashing the best of Intel gaming CPU (not ARL)



Its not even a marginal diff as 18-22% is the performance of a tier above CPU.

And if it wasnt obvious to you, Gamers Day is all about... gaming. Not work apps.

Work Is only thing stopping 9800X3D from complete domination. Every second is money.

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/...reation-review/

18-22% more gaming doesn't give money. Considering 14900K already pulling more than 120 FPS.

https://www.techspot.com/review/2931-amd-ry...el-core-14900k/

IF work = more cores, then theres 16 Core 9950X3D, same gaming performance but able to do more work.

And if thats not enuff there the mother of all king CPU with dual X3D
https://www.techpowerup.com/339579/amd-read...e-and-200-w-tdp

TBH ARL-S isn't that bad as most people think, but the thing is Intel pretty much killed off the value proposition of LGA1851 with the abysmal upgrade path over their competitors
If it had the same platform longevity as AM5 then I can see LGA1851 filling the niche of a value gaming/workstation hybrid build

This post has been edited by chocobo7779: Sep 5 2025, 07:19 PM

ARL was terrible not only because it couldnt give a near fight against x3d CPU kings, it cant even beat its predecessor 14th gen (of course Intel pushed that over the limit to get those good results but killing the CPU).

Am not too hardup on platform longevity coz tech keeps improving, LGA1700 had good run with transition between DDR4/5, PCIE4/5, USB3/4. However ARL with DDR5/ CUDIMM DDR5 & PCIE5 and I dont think theres any significant upgrade needed; DDR6 still a few years, PCIE6 too also.

regarding 13/14 gen degradation issues already fix rite using bios microcode what version ya?