Sandy Bridge i5 or Haswell i3 for gaming?

RansomRenso · Sep 9, 2015

Hey everyone!

I am looking into buying either a used i5 2400 or an i3 4160. I feel as though common sense would say to go for the i5 but CPU World says the i3 would be better in single threaded performance which for now, are what most games use.

http://www.cpu-world.com/Compare/410/Intel_Core_i3_i3-4160_vs_Intel_Core_i5_i5-2400.html

I am aware that a lot of games are coming out multi threaded but as far as current games and some a little older, would you recommend the i3 or the i5?

Do you agree with CPU World that the i3 is better?

sammy sung · Sep 9, 2015

Ultimately the 2400 for gaming would be superior more often than not. The few instances in which it'll lose out to single core performance are minor. For some perspective here's the 2400 slated against a stronger i3

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/363?vs=1192

Cons29 · Sep 9, 2015

i like sandy better (i have a 2500k) runs cooler than the next few gens

smorizio · Sep 9, 2015

if you have a local micro center look at the 4590 that 160.00. also look at the locked cpu and h97 mb most of the h97 are 60.00 online. the newer cpu and mb comb will last you longer then the older 1155 cpu.

RansomRenso · Sep 10, 2015

Thank you sammy sung for the useful info. I should have checked Anandtech.

Unfortunately I do not have any good local tech store.

Tea urchin, I don't know why I didn't think of just looking for a used i3. I searched for one just now and I honestly couldn't find a used one that was significantly cheaper than a new one.

I am not sure which one to go for still. I am sort of leaning on the i3 though.

RansomRenso · Sep 10, 2015

tea urchin :

That makes sense cause when I searched I found that people sell used i3s for only about $10 to $20 dollars less than new.

RansomRenso · Sep 11, 2015

You have convinced me to go with the i3. I could not agree more. For the price it is too good of a processor to pass up, especially against anything else around its price. It beats most AMD processors in single threaded performance which is one of the main reasons I did not want to go with AMD. With the i3 at least I have a clear upgrade path to the i5, like you said. With AMD I am there is no upgradability.

Thanks for the help everyone! Your advice helped me quit a bit!

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