Intel Core i3-7100 7th Gen Core Desktop Processor 3M Cache,3.90 GHz (BX80677I37100)

Such a good bang for your buck. I built a super slim mini ITX build in a Silverstone Raven small form factor case. It is about the size of the old Dell desktops my company used to use. The case is a lot less bulky than typical PC builds, but for a minimal build with this processor it was perfect. According to benchmarks on UserBenchmark this processor performs nearly exactly the same as my laptop processor. My laptop processor is a quad core i7-6700hq. This dual core processor performs just as well as my laptop quad core. I put in a GTX 1050 TI graphics card which also near exactly matches the performance of my laptop's GTX 970m. With this processor I build a desktop that can do everything my laptop can do, but for a third of the cost. Pretty awesome low end processor!One thing I forgot to mention is that it comes with its own stock fan/heatsink. Had I known this I wouldn't have bought the $40 noctua low profile fan. Since you can't overclock this processor you really don't need a better cooler than the stock one. I bought an i7-6700K last year and that didn't come with a fan or heatsink, so I didn't think this one would. If you have an i5 or i7 processor I'd buy an aftermarket cooler. For an i3 like this one just use the stock. You really aren't going to see any performance benefits.

This is a powerful little CPU that packs a lot of power and performance into a product that isn't very expensive. It's definitely a reasonable deal for its current price and it is worth every penny! I have been using this CPU in my personal desktop computer for six months, and it has been working great and stepping up to all the challenges that my not-too-overwhelming workload has been able to throw at it. I'd highly recommend it for anyone on a budget; there certainly are more powerful CPUs that can do a lot more, but at this price you can't beat this one! Thank you.

I wanted a low wattage CPU that would work well for gaming. For those that don't know many games even today really only use 1 core at a time. This puppy is extremely low wattage to begin with (lower wattage= less heat generated) and hopefully longer system life. This i3's single core performance is up there with $350+ xeons and i7's. So for the price it's very impressive as long as your games can only use 1 or 2 cores at a time. For a bit of education if you do ctrl+alt+delete and it looks like a game or process is using all cores equally it is usually a lie. It is in reality one core getting hammered at 100% then jumping to the next one in the series. You have to actually research to figure out how many cores your game actually uses at one time. If you aren't a gamer and for some reason are building a desktop for casual internet use like watching youtube videos and browsing the internet an i3 like this is probably the best thing for you to buy. Especially since it will actually save you money over a beefier processor that you will never actually fully utilize anyway.

This micro is really amazing, i m a casual gamer , and aI have GTX 1050 evga video card an 8 GB of ram ( ballistics 8GB DDR4 2400) and this budget works better than a PS4 or Xbox one, I play GTA V , far cry 4, BF1 and I am very happy with his performance.at first I hesitate between this and the ryzen 1200, but this i3 with 2 cores exceeds the ryzen in many ways

Built my first comp a few weeks ago on a budget, was a little skeptical on getting an i3 over i5 (i7 was definitely not in the budget). But i was impressed by it's out of the box specs and has good reviews so i saved the $100 and put it towards better graphics card and more RAM. I am impressed so far, does everything i've asked out of it just fine. Only complaint is it will get a little bogged down (and i do mean only a little) when you have a ton of screens open and doing a lot of stuff at the same time (Steam, LoL, CSGO, RL, Google, Settings), but that was only after i first turned it on and was trying to update/dl everything and play games all at the same time. But its only a dual core and i knew that going in, and its not typical that i run a ton of stuff at the same time. If you can afford the i5-7600k i would tell you to go for it, but if you are on a budget this is a great CPU.

Excellent Product

I absolutely love this processor for it's price range. I recently custom built two PC's each with a different task in mind. I used this processor on both and both run flawlessly. One is a Minecraft machine which is very CPU intensive and this i3 matches the performance of my i5 in my laptop. The other machine is built for more graphic gaming and the cpu rarely ramps up to full load under heavy gaming. This is due to the fact that I used a budget gtx 1050 which became my bottleneck but the i3 did have plenty of room to grow.

Excellent works as it should