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What is the difference between Pentium Dual core and Intel i3

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Sanjeev Saju   02-03-2012 at 05:33:47 AM

Hello,
I am planning to buy a PC and I searched net about the best gaming processors.I found that pentium dual core has 3.0 Ghz and i3 has 2.2 Ghz.But still i3 is expensive.If Pentium have more speed then why it is cheap and the other is expensive?I dont understand.

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amuffin   02-03-2012 at 05:35:57 AM

Different architectures, i3 is hyperthreaded etc. i3 is also much faster.

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Yuka   02-03-2012 at 05:37:23 AM

You could read this, my friend:

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] ,3120.html

It will give you all the answers you seek in great depth.

Now, the short answers is: the i3s have Hyper Threading and integrated video. If I remember correctly, that is.

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