Core i3 6100 vs Core i5 4440

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Prathmesh007

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Hello, I want a budget gaming machine and I am confused between these two CPUs, the core i3 6100 and the core i5 4440, i'll be using ATI r7 250x and 8 gb of ram(1600mhz). please help me out
 
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IF you are on a Hasewell already, then yes i5 easily. However - the future is Skylake, if you're coming from a different factor, Id go Skylake with yes a *GASP* i3 6100! Seriously, but ur GPU will bottleneck before the 6100 does. The 6100 will handle a lot, and gets you set up to upgrade later. That being said, you can get an i5 6400 Skylake for smae price as the 4460. Don't let the 2.7 speed fool you. Or 10-15 bucks more for 6500. Maybe you have 4460 at better deals. But again, the 6100 will handle current stuff with that GPU at I assume 1080p... now future wise, no, games will make use of multi-cores more than ever, but for now, it'll be fine.
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There a DDR3L board for Skylake, not all DDR4.
 
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what kind of games? can you give us some example?
 
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Andrei-Florin Gogan

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There are are DDR3L but I heard not all BIOSes support DDR3L I will have to look into whether or not all manufacturers have implemented DDR3L, I'm not sure about this but good point.
 
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Prathmesh007

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No i dont have ddr4 RAM. I have 8gb of ddr3 ram only
 
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In this case, if you do not want to buy RAM as well, you should go with the I5.
 
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IF you are on a Hasewell already, then yes i5 easily. However - the future is Skylake, if you're coming from a different factor, Id go Skylake with yes a *GASP* i3 6100! Seriously, but ur GPU will bottleneck before the 6100 does. The 6100 will handle a lot, and gets you set up to upgrade later. That being said, you can get an i5 6400 Skylake for smae price as the 4460. Don't let the 2.7 speed fool you. Or 10-15 bucks more for 6500. Maybe you have 4460 at better deals. But again, the 6100 will handle current stuff with that GPU at I assume 1080p... now future wise, no, games will make use of multi-cores more than ever, but for now, it'll be fine.
 
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