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Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. WTF?! The Arrow Lake fiasco has become increasingly absurd. Intel had promised to address the ongoing performance issues with its new processors by January 2025. However, the latest firmware updates seem to be exacerbating the problems rather than resolving them once

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. The big picture: Having launched its 13th-gen 'Raptor Lake' lineup last year, Intel is expected to release its Raptor Lake Refresh later in 2022 before rolling out the 'Meteor Lake' chips in 2024. However, a new leak about Intel's next-gen

Enlarge / Intel's Core i5-13400.Andrew Cunningham Fancy, expensive processors are fun, but for most people who just want to build a decent middle-of-the-road PC for gaming (and anything else), the best advice is usually to buy a Core i5 or Ryzen 5 for somewhere in the $200–$250 range and pair it with the fastest graphics

TechSpot is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. In a nutshell: Back in January, TechSpot speculated on why Intel's GPU drivers were around twice the size of AMD's and Nvidia's, possibly stemming from less time for optimization work. Whatever the reason, Team Blue's latest driver slims down to

Home News Computing (Image credit: Intel) Intel has steered a bumpy road with its Arc Alchemist graphics cards, but a forthcoming driver update might offer a sizeable enough performance gain to keep the company's hopes of cracking into the discrete graphics market alive a little while longer.Since the launch of the first Intel Arc A380

Home News Computing (Image credit: Future) It’s been almost five years since Samsung unveiled what was then the world’s biggest solid state drive (SSD) in terms of capacity. The PM1643 was, for a very long time, the apex storage device but it did come with a hefty tag. Back in 2020, it retailed for just

The Core i5-13500 is Intel's new $250 offering, packing 14 cores in total, 20 threads and 35.5 MB cache. This is an interesting almost hybrid-like CPU as it packs the larger L3 cache capacity of the Raptor Lake i5's while using the smaller L2 cache of Alder Lake, so it's not merely a locked version