I noticed intel have made lower end chips for 8th gen

[ExoMale]

bit strange they would make the i3 a quad and proceed with the 6 cores chips then after a few months decide to make the pentiums and celerons? Surely with the non K i3 being a bit under £100 the dual cores would seem like a waste of time? It made sense with skylake/kabylake with how much the i3 models were retailing at for near identical performance(minus celeron obviously), but for new gen it just doesn’t seem sense unless I’m thinking wrong behind why they would continue to carry them on?.


Don’t know how long they been showing on the list, but haven’t seen anyone put up a discussion about them.

 

[ExoMale]

I see where your coming from, still don’t think they would appeal much unless someone only had like £100-150, but then unless you need need a pc, you can buy laptops whether they celeron duals or better for that sort of money with 500-1tb hard drives that would do the job if all you want is general use, but I suppose it makes sense in the ‘keep the trend’ sort of way going from low to high end rather than start like mid for a quad i3 to high end as they did with the 8th gen.

I guess it’s only a matter of time before intel finally make the celerons dual cores useful with hyper threading applied and the pentiums to go to quads if they would ever do such a thing.

 

[ExoMale]

they have their use cases, i used a Pentium G4400 (7th gen) for £40 to upgrade a machine for someone plodding along on an old core2duo for web browsing, mobo/cpu/ram was £150 if ddr4 had sane pricing it would've been even less and it flys compared to the core2

They do have their uses, I just think it’s a bit daft to start the new Range with a new i3 that’s now a quad the make the lesser models months after, I don’t need 4 cores most the time really I guess, but I would rather pay the small extra for the i3 over the pentium Range, the 8th gen boards are just not cheap enough to warrant the build cost, if they bring in the 110 sort of line then yeah sure, but compared to the older gens it just doesn’t make sense right now..

the skylake pentiums were just normal dual cores which made the i3 more apapealing because of the continued hyperthreading, but in kabylake they made the pentiums nearly i3 performance with adding the hyperthreading, just different clocks mainly, so the i3 models seemed pointless unless you wanted to brag you have an i3 and both 1151 versions had the 110 range which no board cost more than £60, the new coffelake i3 is basically the i5 replacement with its 4 cores trending because the new i5 is now 6 core.