Wil i3 8100 bottleneck GTX 960?

[amit.aka52]

Okay so i had i5 - 4440 3.1Ghz i want to upgrade it to i3-8100.. So will it perform better then my i5 4440 considering its specs it has 4 cores and will it bottleneck gtx 960?

 

[superninja12]

its most likely the other way around.

did you google how many cores the i3 -8100 has? you know its not only about cores for gaming. some pcs with 2 cores beat out cpus with 8 cores

 

[feelinfroggy777]

Honestly, it is not much of an upgrade. The coffee lake CPUs only have about a 5-10% performance increase over Haswell and the 8100 is only clocked a few MHz higher than your 4440. I would not make the change as you will not see much improvement and you will still need to buy a motherboard and RAM.

As for bottlenecking your 960, no it wont in most games. But in CPU heavy games, such as BF1, you will be under the minimum requirements and there will be some issues. If I were you, I would look at spending an extra $50 and get the 8400 as it will be a better upgrade.

 

[Soda-88]

Going from i5 4440 to i3 8100 is a sidegrade at most, not worth the money, time or trouble.

 

[amit.aka52]

Currently the i3 8400 is not available in my country.. and i really need an upgrade because my mobo died and Haswell motherboards are hard to find

 

[gingerrankin]

since he has to buy a new mobo.., yes I3-8100 is better than i5-4440 and is very good for a GTX 960.

I3-8100 is a 4 core 3,6 GHz. eighth generation.
I5-4440 is a 4 core 3,1 GHz base 3,3 turbo fourth generation.

considering the difference of generations, count that the I3-8100 is 25% faster.

 

[amit.aka52]

So should i go with i3 8100+ H310 motherboard
Or with i5 7400+ cheaper motherboard
and is the i3 8100 faster then the 7400??

 

[gingerrankin]

i5 7400 is less than I3 8100.
i5 7500 is similar than I3 8100. go to cheaper combination CPU + motherboard in your country.

I suppose that I3-8100 + H310 is cheaper than I5-7500 + B250.
I would avoid I5-7500 + H110 unless you are absolutely sure that you have the updated bios

 

[amit.aka52]

Thanks so i will go with i3 8100 and H310 motherboard...
Hope it will hold on for 2years