Intel Core i9-13900K

Intel's top-end and highly overclockable chip comes at a heavy premium, but it's worth it

- PAUL ALCORN

PRICE £583 (£700 inc VAT) from scan.co.uk

As you'd expect from the most expensive Raptor Lake chip, the i9-13900K lacks nothing. While it uses the same eight P-cores as the i7-13700K, they can boost to 5.8GHz rather than 5.4GHz. More important still are its eight extra E-cores, with 16 in place to bring the total thread count to a huge 32. Naturally, the E-cores have a slightly higher Turbo clock too, at 4.3GHz to the Core i7's 4.2GHz.