Intel i5-13400F Desktop Processor 10 cores (6 P-cores + 4 E-cores) 20MB Cache, up to 4.6 GHz

Great Value Gaming CPU
Who should get this CPU?Someone who is value oriented but still wants great performance.It’s really hard to beat this chip, especially if it can be found in the $130ish range which is I got mine for (used from Amazon seller). It didn’t come with a cooler but I already had one. For 1080P gaming this is more than enough and unlike the previous generation 12400F, this has the E cores that will handle background tasks while gaming, leading to fewer stutters as the P cores focus on the gaming. This CPU sips power, unlike the higher binned Intel products and even with a basic/entry level motherboard like my B760M, it can run full power as long as it needs to without cutting wattage.Speaking of wattage, at 100% usage using CPU-Z “Stress”, it maxes out at around 80W. Even with the dinky stock cooler, I’m seeing high 60’s. Granted, as you can see in the picture, I run an open air setup because I’m cheap and I’m much more function over form.During gaming, I rarely see the CPU utilization go above 20%, showing that even if I were to step up to 1440P gaming, I’d have plenty of CPU for that as well.For those considering the 14400F, I’d save the 60-80 bucks as the 14400F is merely 2-3% faster as it’s clocked 1-200Mhz higher and is otherwise the same. While the 12400F is a little cheaper than this, I like having the E cores during gaming, as Windows scheduler will direct background tasks go to the E cores.Tl;dr.Solid value chip that sips power, and is plenty of power for 1080P/1440P gaming and it works on cheap motherboards. Get this over the 12th gen, save $$$ vs the 14th gen that is barely faster.

Bought this processor and a cheap MATX motherboard so I could run MicroSquish Windoze 11
So I was stuck on Windows 10 with my LGA 1151 core i7-6700. This processor at an affordable price more than doubled, maybe tripled my cpu performance while still accepting my older DDR4 3200 ram and m.2 storage. Also allows me to update my machine to Windows 11 as a 13th gen cpu. I considered running 8th gen chip in my older mother board by flashing the bios with a coffee lake chip support, but rather than deal with all the isolation on the cpu pins and bios frustration, i opted to spend 60 bucks for a new MATX board and this cpu. The only complaint I have is the cpu box was clearly opened and I am left wondering if this was dropped into someone else’s board at some point and returned. I don’t like that when the product is being advertised as new. The seller was Amazon LLC too so I am not sure what is going on with that. I have half a mind to return it for a replacement but alas it is installed and seems to be running fine so I really don’t want to pack it up and ship it back. My chip runs pretty cool with the stock fan, 3d mark cpu stress tests never took it above 71C but that fan sure kicked in when the cpu was running at 100% utilization. At idle on my computer the chip purrs along at 30-35C with the fan running somewhere around 40%. All in all a good purchase to get my machine ready for Win 11. Will work for a budget gaming build but expect to pay a little more for a good GPU.

About Intel Core i5-13400F
I love this CPU so much when i use to game on the Intel Core i3-10100F i have noticed some difference on the Performance between both that my Intel Core i3-10100F wasnt as much fast as this i5-13400F is and when i started Gaming on this CPU for VR and higher modern Games like Cod or VR with VRChat it handles Very strongly and i have no lag no issue opening stuff up while i am using SteamVR and everything else i Love this very much

Good all around processor
I originally got this cause I wanted to try out Intel’s p cores/e cores. Coming from a long time AMD user, this intrigued me.So far, it’s got it’s ups and downs. But it seems to be at par with the Ryzen 7 5700g. Though better in lots of ways….like, being to use either DDR 4 or 5. Or PCIe 4 or 5, depending on mother board. While the Ryzen 7 5700g is stuck at PCIe 3.Anyway, I loved it. But decided to swap with with a i9 14900k.I donated it to a friend along with a few other parts to upgrade her system from an A10 to this. So far it’s been real good to her.The only odd note about this processor and it’s IGPU counterpart is, this one have more cache. While the IGPU version have less cache. Try to weigh in your options when looking at this over the other. I picked this due to a tiny drop in price with the added extra cache. But, it wouldn’t be great for my itx rebuild I did later on. This low powered CPU (compared to a Ryzen 7 5700g) would benefit with the IGPU when going for a plain HTPC build.

Llego en perfectas condiciones, llevo 2 meses usandolo para trabajo y para juegos y ninguna queja, me da muy buen rendimiento en los juegos, y en programas pesados que necesito para el trabajo, no le cuesta abrirlos ni al momento de usarlos, puedes tener muchas cosas abiertas a la vez y no tendras problema alguno, por el precio a mi parecer, de los mejores procesadores gama media que hay.

work perfect

This thing is still rated in the top for gaming processors and has served me well over the past few months. Upgrading my video card now to take advantage of this better as it’s creating a bottle neck. Handles VR games like a charm and doesn’t struggle with anything I’ve thrown at it!