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Intel's stock Raptor Lake chip will do 6GHz and overclock another 25%, if it keeps cool

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Bluntly? The majority don't need it, as the majority of PCs are basically used as a web browser. There are certainly use-cases where the performance is needed/required, though - code compilation, image editing (raw camera images), video editing (if it's not offloaded to the GPU), scientific simulation, games, etc.

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