Company PC upgrade, which ~100Euro CPUs should I choose, for Graphic design? (list included)

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F0rkey

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I'm tasked to upgrade 2 of our pc's at the office. And my biggest problem is choosing the CPU.
Since I'm not in North America, I added a list below on my options.

The PCs are used for Graphic design, mostly Illustrator, Photoshop, Corell.
The main problem is that I don't know what to look for since I don't really know how the CPUs handle these programs.

Haswell:

  • ■ Intel Celeron G1820 2.7GHz
    ■ Intel Pentium G3250 3.2GHz
    ■ Intel Pentium G3260 3.3GHz
    ■ Intel Pentium G3258 3.2GHz
    ■ Intel Pentium G3460 3.5GHz
    ■ Intel Core i3-4170 3.7Ghz

Skylake:

  • ■ Intel Celeron G3900 2.8GHz
    ■ Intel Pentium G4400 3.3GHz
    ■ Intel Core i3-6098P 3.3GHz
    ■ Intel Core i-3 6100 3.7GHz

I'm open to consider AMD processors too.
 
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Graphic design? You will need a powerful CPU, so don't consider AMD right now-as graphics need powerful cores vs. many cores.

So, from the list you made, i3 6100 would be simply the best. It has 2 powerful cores with hyper threading. It would be able to handle virtually anything.
 
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All of those are weak CPU's, if you must, go for the i3 as minimum.
In a production environment that means time lost watching a screen progress bar. Time that your company will still pay the employee - to do nothing.
"Savings" in CPU will end up costing more in long term... unless your labor rates are very, very cheap (like China, India).
 
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You sure? They aren't doing 3D rendering. A skylake i3 would be sufficient for at least a couple of years. (or maybe 3-4). That isn't 'weak' as you said.

Anyways, that's his decision now (or maybe his boss decides to shell out an i7 for every PC!)
 
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I didn't say i7, an i5 would be minimum. I am really working in a company and we have i3's only for office tasks (word processing type) because we saw the difference in productivity. But again, that is strongly related to the $/hr you pay the employee.

PS: This it's done by something called "life-cycle cost analysis", you don't get something just because is "cool".
 
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That i7 thing was a joke by my side...but how did you see the difference in word processing and that stuff? And MS office does not all the CPU power, but heavy graphics would maybe take 50-90% on an i3...they would rarely reach
100 or so...so I think an i5 would 'future proofing' instead of productivity.
 
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Looking only at the CPU cost is a mistake. You need to factor in motherboard changes, RAM Changes, and OS changes as well.

Life-cycle cost analysis is fine IF the parameters are right and you have accurate speed/productivity calculations and set the 'life' to an accurate practical value. The problem is that the parts of a computer, which can be replaced fairly easily, 'age' at different rates. A computer is not nearly as monolithic as most analyses, intended for machines and such, assumes.
 
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Yeah, an i3 would give you great performance.
 
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You linked a thread where they compare the CPUs in Adobe Premiere Pro, we don't do video editing at our company, only graphic design.
 
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