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which is better 4th gen i5 or 4th gen i3, for basic use with slight gaming?

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October 13, 2014 8:57:43 AM

regarding intel cpu's.

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October 13, 2014 8:59:49 AM

I3 will do fine for now .
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October 13, 2014 9:05:19 AM

The i5 is the more powerful chip but if you just doing office work, internet surfing, and doing some light gaming like play WoW. The i3 should handle all your needs nicely.
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October 13, 2014 9:17:35 AM

The latest generation of pentium G is more than enough for normal use , and what do you mean by basic gaming ? - like flash games or cards or...?
From the aforementioned ones the i3 is enough.
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October 13, 2014 1:12:29 PM

The Core i3 is all you need for general "stuff". Also most games still only use one or two cores. Casual games will definitely fall into that category. Even a few "AAA" games only use one CPU core like the Assassin's Creed series. The integrated Intel HD 4600 is also fine for casual games, and you can always install a graphics card for better performance if necessary.


The Core i5 is a great CPU. But if you know you are doing fairly basic things like surfing the internet, watch movies, use MS Office / Open Office, then the Core i5 is more or less overkill.
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October 14, 2014 8:42:59 AM

I would say the i3 should be enough for you. Only get the i5 if you are planning to do a lot of multi - thread applications like video editing or playing cpu intensive games like bf.
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