i5 4th gen and 12gb ram vs. i5 6th gen and 8gb ram?

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I'm buying a new desktop pc for surfing and office applications, will i5 4th gen and 12gb or i5 6th gen perform better? Thanks!

I'm deciding between the following two desktop pcs and can get them at the same price:

Lenovo® H50 Desktop Computer With 4th Gen Intel® Core™ i5 Processor, Windows® 10, 90B700E5US

http://www.officedepot.com/a/products/197859/Lenovo-H50-Desktop-Computer-With-4th/

HP Pavilion 550-150 Desktop PC with Intel 6th Gen.i5-6400 Processor,8GB DDR3L Memory,1TB SATA Hard Drive,Wireless LAN 802.11b/g/n+Bluetooth 4.0,DVD+/-RW,Windows 10

http://www.frys.com/product/8592479?site=sr:SEARCH:MAIN_RSLT_PG
 
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HP i5-6400, agreed.

*The i5-4460 in the HP is actually slightly faster than the i5-6400 on paper though the real world would be similar. Also, the i5-6400 can wake up the cores from low power state quickly and PCPER has noted this can be shown to reduce sluggishness of web browsers with the latest Windows 10 update.

So for basic tasks where the CPU idles a lot, the i5-6400 should feel slightly snappier, though in some scenarios an SSD would help too.

Either way, both are arguably overkill for office applications aside from the i5-6400 quick response from idle advantage.

The i5-6400 iGPU is slightly more powerful as said, though unless you're playing a video game it won't matter.

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Agreed.
Unless there's a savings on the 4th gen. You're comparing the total cost of the CPU, motherboard and DDR3/DDR4 memory, and the CPU should be similar performance.

You can Google the CPU name and Passmark to see.

The new CPU's have a great future that works with Windows 10 to quickly pull the cores out of idle. PCPER demonstrated on laptops that there was demonstrably less sluggishness when moving a web page up and down with their finger (because the CPU core ramped up in 6ms vs 60ms...).
 
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The i5-4460 (Lenovo) vs i5-6400 (HP) comes out with the HP coming out a bit ahead in single core CPU benchmarks. In terms of memory, both are using the same DDR3 1600 memory so there's no DDR3 vs DDR4 comparison going on here. The wifi on the Lenovo is a 802.11a/b/g/n/ac chip, while the HP is only 802.11a/b/g/n. No real big deal unless you need the higher speed of AC but you'd need a corresponding router as well. Aside from the CPU, the big difference is going to be video. Both are using integrated graphics so the HP is going to have better video performance than the Lenovo. Neither are going to be great for gaming, but the HP is the clear winner in general.

The only thing thats kind of shady is HP is twisting around the actual speed of the CPU. The i5-6400 is a 2.7Ghz cpu with a 3.2Ghz max turbo but HP is listing the max turbo speed as its actual speed.

Of the two, the HP I'd say the HP is the best bet, slightly better CPU performance and much better IGP performance.
 
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HP i5-6400, agreed.

*The i5-4460 in the HP is actually slightly faster than the i5-6400 on paper though the real world would be similar. Also, the i5-6400 can wake up the cores from low power state quickly and PCPER has noted this can be shown to reduce sluggishness of web browsers with the latest Windows 10 update.

So for basic tasks where the CPU idles a lot, the i5-6400 should feel slightly snappier, though in some scenarios an SSD would help too.

Either way, both are arguably overkill for office applications aside from the i5-6400 quick response from idle advantage.

The i5-6400 iGPU is slightly more powerful as said, though unless you're playing a video game it won't matter.

He changed his post so those computers were not linked before.
 
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