Intel Core i3-8300 and Core i5-8500 ship on February 14

Posted on Friday, January 19 2018 @ 15:47 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck

Word hit the web that the next batch of new Coffee Lake-S desktop processors will hit retail shelves around February 14. Acccording to an Australian e-tailer, we'll see the launch of various Celeron, Pentium, Core i3 and Core i5 CPUs on Valentine's Day. Pricing of these chips ranges from 64 to 329 AUD, which corresponds to about $51 to $264.

The Pentium G5000 series are quad-core and quad-thread CPUs with base clock varying from 3.7 GHz to 3.9 GHz and 4MB of cache.

The cheapest Coffeelake processors will be Celeron G4920 and G4900, which are dual-core and dual-thread CPUs listed with 2MB cache.

Additionally, Intel will launch Intel i5-8600 non-K for the slightly lower price than the overclockable variant. This SKU will be joined by i5-8500 and i3-8300.

Via: VideoCardz

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