Is the i3-6100 good for gaming and multitaskning?

[cmdtommy]

Hello! I want to buy a new Skylake CPU, but i don't know the one i have chosen is a good one.
I would mainly use it for gaming, this it the i3-6100. My VGA is a GTX 1050 Ti.

I'm afraid if i play GTA V and running some other applications at the same time, like a browser, talking on teamspeak3, maybe photoshop and maybe recording funny stuff what we do with my friends in GTA Online, would make using the 6100 impossible, or it would be very slow, because of the lack of CPU cores, because the i3 CPUs have only 2 cores, as i noticed so far. So i would use it for these in a nutshell: RUN HEAVY APPS IN THE SAME TIME (playing or/and recording high end video games, while playing, open a lot of tabs, and browse on the internet; watch youtube, reddit, facebook, etc., cut videos and use photoshop) I know that i3 is not the king of multi tasking, but will these programs run fast on the 6100?

I know, that editor programs can use out 4 cores, but i don't know if i want to edit these videos or record them, just added to the list, because i think i will, but i think i will be fine with the i3's rendering time. It is not terrible. I'm much more afraid, that the CPU could not record it well, because of the lack of 4cores, and while rendering the slowness of the rendering progress, and the windows speed. There is an other CPU, clocked at 2.7ghz, the i5-6400. I don't really know how this turbo clock speed works, and why is it clocked so low, how will it go up to 3.3ghz, and i don't know if this is a good choice to buy for gaming, but if somebody could explain it to me, i would be thankful.

So, which one is better? The i3-6100 or the i5-6400?
Have a wonderful day!

 

[greens]

The i3 6100 does support hyperthreading, so it has an effective 4 threads.
It should be fine for your purposes if it is very budget conscious.

I don't think you will find it too slow.

If you can go for a 6600k that would of course be the ideal choice. Leaving you plenty of room to upgrade your graphics card later.

 

[synphul]

Unless you have photoshop actively rendering a very large image/effect chances are it will be idle if you're gaming. That will affect ram more than the cpu while trying to do other things. Teamspeak and other things going on while gaming will likely affect you more, it's only a dual core cpu regardless of ht. Without all the rest of those things open it will still perform a bit less in some of those games than a true quad core like an i5 or i7.

For a budget cpu it games fairly well on most games and pairs well with that gpu. But keep in mind it's budget, it may not support everything you want to do all at the same time. You may have to close down photoshop to free up ram for gaming and teamspeak. It's impossible to do all those things at the SAME time unless you have 6 hands, 4 keyboards and 8 pair of eyes. Just mentioning that in reality having a lot open people are typically doing one thing at a time. It's a human limitation.

To successfully leave all those things open and running at the same time, that's what i7's are for. Consider a 6700k or a 6 core 6800k along with 16-32gb of ram. The i5 6400 is a better choice due to having 2 additional actual cores but it suffers from low clock speed which is why it's at the bottom end of the i5's. An i5 6500 would be a better choice and usually only costs a little more without paying the additional for an i5 6600k, z series board, aftermarket cooler and overclocking.