Intel's Core i3-8100 offers four physical cores for a mere ~$120, which is a tremendous value compared to the previous generation Intel models. We'll be even more impressed when reasonably priced B350 motherboards come to market.
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There's never been a better time to buy a processor for under $125. AMD's latest processors have shaken up the low-cost landscape, so now you can find quad-core models with gaming-capable integrated graphics for a mere $100. Intel's response has brought...
Intel's Core i3-8100 offers four physical cores for a mere ~$120, which is a tremendous value compared to the previous generation Intel models. We'll be even more impressed when reasonably priced B350 motherboards come to market.
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IntroThe Core i3-8100 is a quad-core CPU with four threads and 3.6 GHz clock, being one of the entry models from the eighth-gen Core i CPUs from Intel. Let's check how fast is it.The new eighth generation of Core i7 CPUs from Intel, codename Coffee...
The mainstream end of the PC market has become more interesting since Intel launched quad-core Core i3 chips and AMD, most recently, responded with second-generation Ryzen processors armed with class-leading integrated graphics.The choice of which...
If you are on a tight budget and haven't upgraded your CPU in a few generations, the Core i3 8100 is a very competent offering at around $120 USD. This 3.6GHz quad-core CPU performed very well in our tests: almost always faster than the Ryzen 3 1300X, generally on par or beating a Core i5 Skylake, and overall delivering good performance as we've seen already out of the i5-8400 and i7-8700K with these new elevated core counts.