Comments on: Core i3/i5/i7 Processors – Making Sense of Intel’s New CPU Line

By: Donzclark

Donzclark — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 22:40:00 +0000

AMD CPU s ARE JUST AS GOOD AT HALF THE COST !!! DONNIE ………… C THX

By: Roshan

Roshan — Sat, 03 Sep 2011 11:00:00 +0000

WHY ALL THE SERIES OF I(AS I3 ,I5,I7) NAMED AS I BEFORE THEIR NUMBERS ??
OR
WHY THESE CALLED I SERIES??

By: phoenix

phoenix — Sat, 16 Apr 2011 08:30:30 +0000

want to know if the hp pavillon dv6-3112sa is a good laptop:in terms of cpu,gpu and price. thanks

By: Dan

Dan — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 02:52:21 +0000

I got intel i5 650 processor is this compatible with triple channel Rams?

By: AC

AC — Sat, 30 Oct 2010 06:56:59 +0000

Great post and table, many thanks. Thats what happens when you employ “marketing people”

By: John

John — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 20:58:29 +0000

@ Zahran: welcome to the real world. For-profit businesses do not exist for charitable purposes.

By: Z Zahran

Z Zahran — Tue, 27 Jul 2010 16:53:42 +0000

Intill with it’s all versions of CPU’s and motherboards that submitted in electronic Market, aims how to exhaust the customers money for it’s own benefit,I think that they are theafs,like microfost with it’s windows versions

By: William

William — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 18:10:56 +0000

@Taro -

The Core 2 series is older: it was the generation before the Core i3/i5/i7 processors. It came in both duo and quad options (2 and 4 cores, respectively) but had no Hyperthreading or Turbo Boost. I would *not* recommend getting one of those CPUs any more, unless the price is significantly less.

By: Taro

Taro — Sun, 20 Jun 2010 18:19:29 +0000

Oh I get it. Then what differs between core2 duo and core i5? Both are dual core right? I am considering which to buy, since the price ranged far from each other.

By: William

William — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 21:14:34 +0000

@Taro -

The Core i5 600-series are all dual-core processors, with HyperThreading – for a total of up to four active threads at a time. They also have built-in graphics, and the 661 model in particular has somewhat (~20%) faster graphics than the rest.

The Core i5 700-series, on the other hand, are quad-core chips. That means they run hotter, and are faster with multithreading / multitasking even though their lack of Hyperthreading still limits them to four active threads. They also do *not* have built-in graphics, making them much more like a Core i7 without HyperThreading than a Core i5 in my opinion.