New Mainstream Intel Haswell Core i3, i5, Pentium Appear

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Honestly, I suspect it has to do with corporate sales (where intel makes a metric crap ton of money).

And just about any application that requires little more than a box you can attach a mouse, keyboard and screen to. In many of those cases, a tablet, laptop or all-in-one would be even better as long as the price is right - I'm not going to put a full-blown desktop PC in my kitchen... but I could imagine putting a portable AiO with desktop docking/charging stand - only needs to be powerful enough to browse, play videos, display photos and little else.

 

[turbolover22]

...the store doesn't even ask to asrock for the price since they already know it, which means bent pins are common.

I have to disagree that one store not going to the motherboard manufacturer means that the Intel socket is faulty.

last thing, don't buy asrock motherboard, their quality and support sucks, try google asrock z68 extreme 4 bsod, they still haven't fix that bug, next time i upgrade i will stick to as*s or gig*byte

This I can agree with.

 

[boytitan2]

Those prices getting tired of your shit intel.

 

[Someone Somewhere]

Intel should put Intel HD 4600 to all Celeron, Pentium, i3, i5 and i7 and make the same ones without Intel HD 4600, so people who can build the whole gaming computer save up money without Intel HD 4600 in their processor and people who can't build the whole gaming computer at once (That means part after part) can have the intergrated Intel HD 4600, that would be so awesome.

Pulling HD4600 out doesn't reduce the cost though; you just have wasted die space. Which costs money.

There's a reason they have the i3-3225 et al, and I'd imagine that's going to continue into Haswell. An i5-4435 or similar would be good though

 

[kebbz]

Still no unlocked dual core!!??

 

[Warped_Ghost]

Hmmm an i3 for $160 or a FX 8320? Seriously Intel who do you think wants an i3 for 160? However those Pentiums do look enticing.

 

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Hmmm an i3 for $160 or a FX 8320? Seriously Intel who do you think wants an i3 for 160? However those Pentiums do look enticing.

A year ago, i3 started around $125... Intel is getting greedier. I bought my i5-3470 for $180 last year and now it is listed at ~$195 in most stores.

It is almost as if Intel wanted to get rid of i3 and force people to choose between Pentium and i5.