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Intel's 12th generation Core i3 processors go on sale in January 2022, alongside the more affordable B660 and H610 chipsets for LGA1700 motherboards. "Alder Lake architecture Core i3 models have 12MB cache and four Performance or High Performance cores with HyperThreading support. The processor's Turbo frequency exceeds the magical 4 GHz limit, guaranteeing good performance in everyday tasks and even in PC games. As DDR5 memory is expensive, a configuration with DDR4 memory allows significant cost savings with virtually no performance penalty.

Intel's 12th generation Core i3 processors go on sale in January 2022, alongside the more affordable B660 and H610 chipsets for LGA1700 motherboards. "Alder Lake architecture Core i3 models have 12MB cache and four Performance or High Performance cores with HyperThreading support. The processor's Turbo frequency exceeds the magical 4 GHz limit, guaranteeing good performance in any everyday task. DDR5 RAM delivers significant performance gains in leading Adobe photo and video applications.

The 11th generation of hexa-core "Rocket Lake" Intel Core i5 processors support the new PCI-Express 4.0 standard, so the most powerful video cards and M.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs on the market will run at their maximum speed when you use a motherboard with a 500 Series B560, H570 or Z590 chipset. The Core i5 Gen11 processor features a DDR4-3200 memory controller with a maximum memory capacity of 128GB. They also support the innovative Deep Learning Boost and Gaussian and Neural Accelerator 2.0 technologies and can execute the new Intel AVX-512 instructions.

The 12th generation hexa-core Alder Lake Intel Core i5 processors support the new PCI-Express 5.0 standard, so the most powerful video cards on the market and M.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs can run at their maximum speed when you use a motherboard with 600. Series B660, H670 or Z690 chipset. Core i5 Gen12 processors feature a DDR5-4800 memory controller with a maximum of 128GB of memory. They also support the innovative Deep Learning Boost and Gaussian and Neural Accelerator 3.0 technologies.

The 12th generation hexa-core Alder Lake Intel Core i5 processors support the new PCI-Express 5.0 standard, so the most powerful video cards on the market and M.2 PCIe NVMe SSDs can run at their maximum speed when you use a motherboard with 600. Series B660, H670 or Z690 chipset. Core i5 Gen12 processors feature both DDR5 and DDR4 memory controllers - choosing a kit with DDR4 memory and a matching motherboard will save you money without a significant loss in performance.