frozentundra123456
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- Aug 11, 2008
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In a blind test, I couldn't tell a difference between my overclocked i5 and my wife's stock Haswell i3.
Makes sense to me. I still think in a blind test of a fast dual core vs a quad or hex core, it would be hard to tell the difference. Now the qualifier, is that there is not a lot of tabs open and stuff running in the background. Now obviously if you have 3 or 4 youtube videos or something running at the same time more cores will be faster.
Edit: Just did a test of opening a browser. On a 3ghz sandy i5, I got a brief cpu spike to 85% opening chrome, and less than 40% opening Edge or Firefox. So I suppose opening chrome you could hit 100% cpu on a dual core, very briefly. But still a new dual core has better ipc and faster clockspeed than my i5, so I am not sure one could really tell the difference.
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