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welcome to lioness tech tips today we're going to be doing an unboxing of the Intel Core i3 2105 now this is a low-end processor so it might not seem like it would be that interesting to you but it is and I will tell you why this is part of their second generation Core I series processors so that means that it uses the Sandy Bridge core and it has integrated graphics on every single one whether it's a dual core or quad core this one in particular is a dual core but I want you guys to come in here and have a quick look at this so you've got two cores you do have hyper threading so that means you've got four threads until HD graphics 3000 that's the interesting part so this is a lowland chip with a high-end integrated graphics because remember the second-generation core series processors have either HD 2000 or HD 3000 onboard graphics and the only time we've seen HD 3000 in the past is with the K series chips and quite frankly if you're buying a high-performance hyper-threaded turbo-boost quad core processor what on earth are you doing using your onboard graphics in most cases so this is the first SKU that has a mix then that I believe makes the most sense which is the low end CPU with the higher end onboard graphics so high-end onboard graphics please a couple of things first of all it means better performance in games obviously it's still integrated graphics but it's on the cpu better performance in games it also means better performance in the the HD graphics accelerated functionality such as lucid virtu which is far more interesting in my opinion than necessarily the performance of an Intel HD 3000 graphics solution very very cool technology I'm gonna actually be doing a video on virtue very shortly but III did some media conversions with it very impressive it's so fast okay we've got an integrated memory controller with support for up to dual channel ddr3 memory and a three-year limited warranty so this is all pretty much stuff we're used to now show you guys the product itself really quickly here but there's not going to be that much interesting we've got a core i3 sticker we've got an Intel certified heatsink solution so this is a very low-power CPU this particular little guy is rated at 65 Watts TDP so you got a really thin thermal solution no copper slug necessary in the middle and you've got a nice four pin pwm fan there and last but not least look at this environmentally friendly packaging there's a little bit of plastic but overall not bad definitely improving so there we have it the core i3 2105 in all of its glory it fits in your standard LGA 1155 socket do not try to put this in an 1156 board it will not work so the main reason for me unboxing this is actually because I want to put it up head-to-head against AMD's apu so here i have an 8 apu which is a 4 core processor with discrete level graphics and then this is Intel's price similar to core processor also with B highest and Intel onboard graphics now bear in mind Intel CPUs have much higher performance per core than AMD CPUs this one does have the advantage of hyper threading but this guy actually has four physical cores so I think that's going to be an interesting comparison which I will also be doing in the near future as well so don't forget to subscribe to Lana's tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer videos Marshall the box is more interesting