Pick up the Intel Core i5-13500 Back at Its Lowest Ever Price: Real Deals

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If you're on the hunt for a great CPU deal to pair with a budget gaming or productivity PC then consider this excellent deal on Intel's Core i5-13500 processor for just $209 - a return to its lowest ever price. With the i5-13500 you're getting 14 cores and integrated UHD graphics for close to 200 bucks.

At the lowest price I've seen this monitor, Dell has their G2723H gaming monitor on sale for $149. You get a lot of features for this low price including a super fast 280Hz refresh rate, a quality IPS panel, and 27 inches of real estate. It's hard to find 1080p monitors with these specs for this low price.

A small promotional code at Newegg sees the 2TB WD Black SN850X drop to just $135. We've seen the cost of SSDs drop over and over as of late and I'm overjoyed that the bigger capacity drives are becoming more affordable - especially with the ever-growing file size of the latest big games. This is one of the best SSDs on the market with impressive read/write speeds of 7300/6600 MB/s.

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TL;DR — Today’s Best Deals

Intel Core i5-13500 CPU: now $209 at Amazon (was $285)
Dell G2723H Gaming Monitor: now $149 at Dell (was $369)
2TB WD Black SN850X SSD: now $135 at Newegg (was $199)
27-Inch Aopen HC5 Curved Gaming Monitor: now $135 at Acer (was $249)
1TB MSI Spatium M450 SSD: now $32 at Newegg (was $44)

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Stewart Bendle is a deals and coupon writer at Tom's Hardware. A firm believer in “Bang for the buck” Stewart likes to research the best prices and coupon codes for hardware and build PCs that have a great price for performance ratio.

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4 Comments Comment from the forums

Roland Of Gilead

I always thought the 13500 is the best bang for buck as opposed to the 13400. More cores higher clocks, and for sweet FA on top. Essentially a 12600k with a new name.
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lmcnabney

Read the reviews. For gaming the DDR4 option is 10-20% slower than DDR5. Might as well go the 7600/7600x route to get slightly better gaming, slightly worse applications, and less power consumption when both are DDR5.
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baboma

>I always thought the 13500 is the best bang for buck as opposed to the 13400. More cores higher clocks, and for sweet FA on top. Essentially a 12600k with a new name.

Yep, 13500 was my sweet spot, but that's only true for the RCP (tray price) at ~$220'ish. At launch, price was ~$285, which subsequently settled at ~$250 for a long while (cf Amazon price history below). I expect ~$210 will be the regular price going forward, in line with drops on other non-K parts.

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>For gaming the DDR4 option is 10-20% slower than DDR5.

If you had read reviews, DDR4-vs-5 perf is a bit more complicated. In many games, DRAM speed has minimal impact.

>Might as well go the 7600/7600x route to get slightly better gaming, slightly worse applications, and less power consumption when both are DDR5.

For non-gaming: 13500 simply kills 7600/X on multi-core perf. Plus the added appeal of cheaper RAM & board.

For gaming, I'd opt for 13400, not 13500 or 7600/X.
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mickrc3

One thing that I noticed on the SSD offer. Although Newegg handles the sale of the Western Digital 2TB SN 850X the seller ships from China, has only five ratings and an 80% result, and has the confidence inspiring name of Wafy Bear.
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