For Christmas we got my son a bunch of computer parts to upgrade his main gaming PC. We had gotten him a RTX 2060 graphics card before the current shortage but his i5-3570 CPU was slowing him down. The most recent 12th generation Intel CPUs seem great and certainly worth the price premium over the 11th generation but he has a mini-ITX case and ITX motherboards that support the latest CPUs are still expensive – for enthusiasts only at this point. So I went with an i5-11600k CPU which is a 4X speedup over what he had, and twice as fast as any of the other computers around here (I like buying off-lease corporate PCs for pennies on the dollar.) Continue reading