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Andy Edser

Intel has rebranded the dusty old Core i5 10400 as the Core i5 110, presumably because it found a bunch of them tucked down the back of the couch

The Intel Core i5 110. Probably.

Ah, you know how it is. You start looking for a pen, or a sticky note, or maybe some spare change, and suddenly you start finding things you lost years ago. In Intel's case, that appears to be a load of Comet Lake-era Core i5 10400 CPUs, but not to worry—it's simply rebranded them as Core i5 110 CPUs, to sync up with its relentlessly-confusing modern chip naming schemes. Oh, and under code name, it's listed as "products formerly known as Comet Lake." How very Prince.

Yes, you too could be the proud owner of a five-year-old six-core, 12-thread CPU with a max boost clock of 4.3 GHz and 12 whole MB of L3 cache—albeit with a fancy new name (via Tom's Hardware). To be honest, it's probably still a reasonably decent CPU in many scenarios, but you can't deny that this sort of rebranding makes things even more complicated for your average user trying to decide on their next upgrade.

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