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5.0 out of 5 starsBest budget processor - Can be called as: A lower clocked 7th gen i3 with a weaker integrated GPU.
Reviewed in India on 27 June 2018
When am writing this review (in June 2018), the price and demand for this hyper threading enabled 'budget king' processor has fallen from what it has been in 2017. At a price of Rs 4500 you get almost 90-95% computing performance of an i3 6100 or i3 7100 that is retailed at double the rate of this one. With a basic motherboard (~Rs 3800) and a 4GB of DDR4 RAM (~Rs 2800), you get a really good computer for all the basic tasks. Coupled with a capable Graphics card (1030/1050/750) and extra RAM, you get decent fps for medium level gaming.
If you wish to buy a Pentium processor, avoid the 6th Gen Pentium G4400 and go for this, the naming of them sound similar and they share the same socket/motherboard, but are quite different in handling multi core workloads.
This is called the budget king because this is the first Pentium since the Pentium 4 to feature hyper threading which was actually a feature only for the Core 'i' series since their launch.
