The Intel I5 processor

[chrcoluk]

Ironically Intel adding HT to i5's around the time HT gets a load of security issues.

 

[Tetras]

Ironically Intel adding HT to i5's around the time HT gets a load of new security issues.

Fixed it for you

 

[1664kronenbourg]

Will it run flight simulator?

 

[1664kronenbourg]

I haven't got it yet but will games like SKYRIM/WOLfENSTEIN (THE MACHINE GAMES VERSION) look better and for some reason SKYRIM resuses to lgo past the start up menu on the laptop I'm using now, somebody reckons it might be the processor as I've tried everything and don't trust DOOM (2016 version) to run on it.

I'll let you know how it goes on.

Everything's runing so far but I'm sure DOOM 2016's faster than it was on my previous laptop.

 

[1664kronenbourg]

1080p on Doom Eternal on High settings 68 FPS

Medium setting 84 FPS.

It wont be exactly that, it was tested on a very simular spec laptop so wont be far off.

So yes even on Ultra settings it would run that game ok, just turn the shadow quality and water reflection to low and everything else on highest and it would run well i think.

Harder to run games will be more of a challenge and you will need to mess about with settings, turning them lower until it runs well.

It will run older games well

The storage is fast but low amount at 256GB ( you could use external storage though by either making your own with a hard drive / SSD drive and USB 3 external hard drive caddy or buy a pre made one )

You were right about it running DOOM ETERNAL (I've had to do with The Ancient Gods [part one] expansion at the moment just as a tester but somehow, the first level reminds me of something Lovecraftian written by Brian Lumley set on an oil rig called The Night The Sea Maid Went Down (google it). I've had to use my external 2TB external SSD drive and follow instructions from a Youtube video. But how much space doce Microsoft flight Simulator take up (before the DLC?

DOOM ETERNAL (THE ANCIENT GODS) has to be the most intense game I've played for a while (and that's on the easist setting). I haven't got the main game yet but hope to do so in the near future.

Thanks for the assurance.

 

[dave28]

You were right about it running DOOM ETERNAL (I've had to do with The Ancient Gods [part one] expansion at the moment just as a tester but somehow, the first level reminds me of something Lovecraftian written by Brian Lumley set on an oil rig called The Night The Sea Maid Went Down (google it). I've had to use my external 2TB external SSD drive and follow instructions from a Youtube video. But how much space doce Microsoft flight Simulator take up (before the DLC?

DOOM ETERNAL (THE ANCIENT GODS) has to be the most intense game I've played for a while (and that's on the easist setting). I haven't got the main game yet but hope to do so in the near future.

Thanks for the assurance.

no worries, happy it worked out how you hoped

 

[1664kronenbourg]

Depends what i5.

If its a 10th or 11th Generation i5 then they are really good.

You were right. I've finally got the games I wanted (Cyberpunk and especially DOOM ETERNAL [the campaign and both Older Gods DLC) but the makers could have made the platforming sections or the parts where you have to swing from a bar easier but I still love it!!

 

[g67575]

My advice would be to ignore the i3/i5/i7/i9 part of the model name of Intel CPUs.

Are you buying a desktop PC or laptop?

Just buy the latest generation that you can afford. You can buy a 12600K at the moment, which is part of the latest generation of Alder Lake 12th generation CPUs. If you wait a few more months, they will release most / all of this generation of CPUs.

Since you are a gamer, consider buying something like a 12700, which should be released in the first few months of 2022. It will have 8 high performance CPU cores (plus 4 'extra', less powerful CPU cores).

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

If we are talking a recent laptop with a recent gen of i5 then it should be fine.
But for years, mobile was quite different from desktop:

• i3 was dual core without HT
  
• i5 was dual core with HT.
• i7 was dual core with HT and more turbo, often more cache too.

From Arrrandale (2010) until Broadwell (2015) all i5's were dual core. With Skylake (2016) they started making some quad core i5's but AFAIR, they took the HT away for that:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_Core_i5_processors#Mobile_processors

More recently things have finally changed.

Point being: i5 is just a marketing term, you have to tell us the exact model number to get any meaningful opinions.

The i-3/5/7 numbers confused me for years, but I think your post sums it up well and the penny has finally dropped!

If it was 18-20 years ago, am I right in thinking that they would have been as follows?

i3 - budget CPUs like the Celeron
i5 - 'normal' CPUs like the Pentium 4
i7 - enthusiast CPUs like the Pentium 4 Extreme

Edit: I've seen mentions here of an i9 which I haven't heard of before. Where does that fit in? I kinda lost track when CPUs started to remove the clock speed from their product names around 2004/5 and it became more difficult to quantify CPUs like-for-like as it was no longer only about clock speed.