PCSpecialist Titan Spark
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from pcspecialist.co.uk/reviews
The Titan Spark is a handy reality check this month. Amid all the great innovation on show at CES (see p26) and stunning laptop designs such as the Asus ProArt Studiobook OLED 16 (see p56), the dependable desktop PC continues to deliver in three key areas: speed, value and simple upgradability.
It’s only right to start with speed, as the Titan Spark flies. The Core i5-12600KF is proof once more that Intel has delivered with the 12th benchmarks with a score of 457, then punched its way to a 8,023 tally in PCMark 10. Cinebench R23 proved no challenge, with a 16,957 result in the multicore test. Compare that triumvirate of scores to the Asus – ludicrously fast for a laptop, lest we forget – and its results of 354, 6,892 and 12,638.
