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hey guys this is Austin so the new Intel Haswell core i3 s have just hit and so I figured this would be a great time to do a comparison between it and the new core i5 to see which is best for your gaming dollar to start we have the Intel Core i3 41:30 this is a dual core has well part with hyper threading and it's got a base clock speed of 3.4 gigahertz for $130 jump up to the core i5 46 70 K and you'll get a quad core CPU again based on as well but with a clock speed they can boost up to 3.8 gigahertz stock with the option to overclock if you want to push it higher for a solid mid-range card we've got the 2 gigabyte EVGA GTX 650 Ti boost which is a card I really like for the price the three gigabyte MSI Radeon 79 which gives plenty of performance for typical 1080p gaming and finally the beastly three gigabyte EVGA GTX 780 which is one of the fastest single GPU cards you can buy right now before we get into the gaming benchmarks I ran each CPU through Senna bench since they're both based on the same architecture the core i5 nearly wins when using a single core thanks to the higher boost clocks but when you take all the cores into account hyper threading helps some but the core i3 still falls behind so on paper the i-5 clearly has the advantage but how does it stack up when you're actually gaming starting with the 650 Ti boost we have the fire stripe benchmark inside 3dmark and unsurprisingly there's not much of a difference here considering the $100 price premium battlefield 3 shows even less of a difference of only about 2 frames per second Crysis 3 is one of the most demanding games out but it's almost entirely GPU bound here as this is essentially a time BioShock Infinite is basically the same story with the 650 Ti boost both CPUs are simply good enough Metro last light finally shows the core i5 pulling ahead by about 10% which makes sense as it's the most CPU bound game I test with unsurprisingly at this price point there really just isn't much difference between the core i3 and i-5 now sure it is a little bit faster but for the most part considering that $100 price premium it's really not going to be worth it however what when we throw some extra GPU horsepower at it now with a Radeon 7095 strike and we start to see the core i5 pull out a bit of a lead here jumping back into battlefield 3 we're looking at mostly the same story though with a pretty minimal difference Crysis 3 is back to being within the margin of error for a tie however BioShock Infinite is helped along a bit by the quad core i5 but even here we're only looking at about a 5 percent improvement even with the more beefy GPU in Metro last light we're still only looking at a fairly small difference in performance even with a fairly powerful graphics card the Haswell core i3 really does put in a good showing however now let's go for some serious overkill with the GTX 780 and fire strike we're finally seeing some substantial gains and performance of over 10% battlefield 3 is also starting to see a small boost although both CPUs have no problems keeping the FPS well over 60 Crysis 3 continues to be extremely GPU bound though even with a six hundred and fifty dollar GTX 780 BioShock Infinite is just like Battlefield we do see an improvement but since the graphics are already maxed out the difference between 90 and 100 frames per second is mostly academic finally with Metro last light we see the biggest improvement yet with nearly twenty more frames per second with the core i5 compared to the core i3 the best way to sum up this video is that you shouldn't underestimate the new core i3 sure it might only be a dual core part however that hyper-threading definitely does do a lot to improve the performance in games bring it very close to the much more expensive core i5 so if you're building a gaming PC with anything less than a crossfire sli setup I would say the core i3 is absolutely worth a look however what do you guys think would you use a core i3 in your next build would you maybe get something a little bit more beefy like Core i5 definitely be sure to let me know what you guys are thinking in the comments below anyway if you enjoyed definitely be sure to subscribe to the channel so you can become one of the guys and always be kept up to date with the latest and greatest anyway guys thanks for watching