Customer Ratings & Reviews

Awesome budget chip that preforms great! Have it in a mini Itx build with a 240aio, run cool 30c-55c.

Really good cpu for gaming also very good to play video games temporarily if you don’t have a graphics card at the moment or if you’re playing games that don’t require much power.

There might be better processors in the 13th gen, but for its time, it was the best speed per dollar value. It performs like a champ in all of the AAA games I've thrown at it.

Excellent value. !2th Generation processor is great for playing games and heavy desktop work. Great performance for a lower price. Can't wait to install this in my new system.

The processor works great! The cpu cooling fan that came with it did not fit though. The push-pin mounting dud not line up with the existing holes and did not fit the existing threaded holes either. So I had to buy an after market fan separately.

By far, best bang for the bucket mid-tier CPU you can get! Worth paying the little more for integrated graphics for when you need to add an aftermarket GPU.

Plays all the games I want and more can’t complain about it at all

I requested a price match and Bestbuy matched the price. I received the item (I am building a pc and bought many items) and out it in my travel bag as I was going overseas. when I took the parts for the technician to assemble it , the item was used. the seal was broken and there were sign of thermal paste removal. Now I am overseas and can't return the product. i will not get away with this cheating they sold me a used item for the price of a new item.

When you drive on the street, would you be able to realize the power of a race car? For me, I would rather get something that gets the job done that can drive at slightly above the speed limit and never below the speed limit. Analogously, that would be this i5-12400. The price is economical. The CPU is efficient because it takes less watts and produces less heat than an i7. It is slightly faster than I need it to be (in AAA games, my FPS is bottlenecked by my RTX 3070 Ti GPU, and in esports titles I can get 165+ FPS). Most importantly, it is fast for enough to feel snappy because I hate it when something freezes even for a split second.

Works great, no issues at all and installation was easy, the stock cooler actually looks decent now and has a little heft to it. If using an after market cooler make sure it supports the socket.

Great processor for the price. Good performance so far

Great chip. High efficiency good clocks reasonable price

Just upgraded from AMD Ryzen 1600, and this thing absolutely demolishes what I was using, makes me wish I did it sooner. I got a Vetroo 5 heat pipe cooler and idles at 38c. Can't believe the temps for the performance.

Benchmarks place this chip faster than a 11700k for gaming and at fraction of the power. On sale, this is the chip for the perfect basic build.

Good price and better value than the AMD counterpart at the time of purchase. Can run games very well with the GPU I also bought. Great for a lower-end budget build

Runs fast and cool, and is more than enough CPU for most gamers. What's not to love!?

Great chip for the money. I built a computer for a friend and he is very happy with how fast it it.

Its perfect for gaming and at a great price, I would wait for a sales Ive seen this at 169.99

Did exactly what I needed it to do.... update the Bios on my MoBo to be able to use a 13th gen LGA1700 CPU on it lol.

The Intel 12400F is a great value. However, the 12400 just barely misses the mark for value and gets into the realm of good budget hedge for anyone trying to have a decently fast computer with upgrade potential. The i3 is probably good enough for 90% of people, and for anyone already with an AMD 3000 series, an upgrade to a 5000 using the same motherboard is probably good enough. This is only for those who are building new computers and trying to hedge and have potential to reuse the motherboard for a 13th gen while also being good enough for most prosumer use. My GPU was getting too old, and because this computer didn't really need one at the moment, I decided to get the non-F version. The reason why this is bad value though, is because the F series commands so much more of a premium and because the cooler is useless. I spent literally 1.5 hours trying to get the cooler to fit on my motherboard, and the fastener just wouldn't work. And because the fastener is permanently attached, it is impossible to just use screws to salvage the cooler. Don't rely on the cooler. Thankfully, I had spare coolers, but I was really trying to use this one for this build.