i3 6100 or i7 950

Bruno_Tech · May 17, 2016

I can get a used i7 950 for free or buy a new i3 6100 for 200 nzd

what is better performance?

Thanks

sizzling · May 17, 2016

Better at doing what?

Nick_50 · May 17, 2016

Both CPUs require different CPU sockets so do you have a motherboard or are you going to buy one to match the CPU you choose?

Rogue Leader · May 17, 2016

If you already own a motherboard and parts to run a i7 950 I would take it.

If you are going out and buying all that buy the 6100. Its a newer platform, and while its less cores they are faster than the older i7 and you can always upgrade that to a new i7 with that board. The i7-950 is a dead older board setup

drtweak · May 17, 2016

the first get i7 is now 5 years old. Uses older outdated RAM, doesn't have USB 3.0, and may or may not have SATA III Too and is PCIe 2.0.

If you are going to be doing gaming, better to get the i3. PCIe 3.0, SATA III, M.2, USB 3.0, Higher clock rate, better at single treading, DDR4 etc etc.

If you have the money get the i3. Find parts for a first get i7 will be hard as none of it will be new unless someone just hung on to it this long (Which some people do. They buy out all kind of stuff when something gets phased out and sells it later).

Eximo · May 17, 2016

Most i7-950 (X58) boards offered 3rd party USB and 3rd party SATAIII controllers.

DDR3-1600 is still a contemporary memory speed, Most X58 systems would have had 1333 though.

Also easy to overclock the crap out of them, so don't let the stock 3.07Ghz scare you off.

My friend is borrowing my i7-950 setup and put a GTX970 in it. Plays all the modern games.

Anurag20 · May 17, 2016

The i3-6100 is a better cpu -- 21% overall, but the 970 is a better gamer by 4% -- I think that DDR4 RAM and the fact that the 6100 is highly-upgradeable all the way to an i7-6700.. tilts the scales in the i3-6100's favour..

See this comparison:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-970-vs-Intel-Core-i3-6100/m8374vs3511

rgd1101 · May 17, 2016

get the i7 for free and sell it?

sizzling · May 18, 2016

That benchmark shows what I was thinking, the i3 is generally faster except in multi threaded applications where the i7 is much stronger so it depends what the PC will be used for. However the upgrade options of the newer i3 are a big factor too.

Hawkshot · May 18, 2016

due to the upgrade path the I3 offers I would be more inclined to go for that, also a lot of the games I play are reliant on single core processing power and the I3 is better in that respect anyway.

TerryLaze · May 18, 2016

Anurag20 :

Only if you know of any game that can take advantage of 12 threads...
Pretty much every takes full advantage of 2 cores some even 3 or 4 cores but that's it,more than that is virtually impossible to find.

rgd1101 · May 18, 2016

TerryLaze :

Anurag20 :

Only if you know of any game that can take advantage of 12 threads...
Pretty much every takes full advantage of 2 cores some even 3 or 4 cores but that's it,more than that is virtually impossible to find.

there are more stuff that are running then just the game too.

TerryLaze · May 18, 2016

Unless you run very demanding software alongside the game you won't see any difference,and this is if we are talking about a GPU that won't limit either CPU...
Running other stuff along the game will put more load on the memory the disk and specially on the network if you are playing an online game it will kill performance no matter how many cores you have.

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