4th gen i3 vs 1st gen i7

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It depends. For single-core processes, the I3 might prove to be the better because of its higher instructions per clock. However, overall the I7 still beats the I3 in terms of having 4 physical cores instead of 2. I'd say they are pretty similar, what are you looking to use it for? Make not that using 1st gen I7 means older motherboard.
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It depends. For single-core processes, the I3 might prove to be the better because of its higher instructions per clock. However, overall the I7 still beats the I3 in terms of having 4 physical cores instead of 2. I'd say they are pretty similar, what are you looking to use it for? Make not that using 1st gen I7 means older motherboard.
 
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It depends on exactly which i3 and i7 you want to compare. Most of the time though, the i3 will be faster since the newer architectures have ~25% better IPC, ~15% higher clock frequency, more up-to-date IO, new instruction sets, more power-efficient design and a few other extras..
 
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An old-school i7 will generally work with motherboards which only support SATA II and PCI-E 2.0, which are obsolete. You can get better general Windows performance with a newer motherboard and i3, especially on a SATA III-compatible SSD, but still get slightly better gaming performance with a 1st gen i7.
 
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