Also worth noting that my old Core2Duo ran at about 48 degrees C idle, and 60 degrees when playing games with my noctua cooler. Everything opens in the blink of an eye, files uncompress almost instantly.Įpic upgrade from my Core2Duo t9500. This thing really does work! I have been playing SC2 and WoW on ultra, Skyrim on ultra, never had less than 60fps with Vsync on. I got this one when it was on sale for the same as the i3-2100. It's really impressive how even Intel's low end processor grouping is about the equivalent of AMD's high end processor grouping. It beats old Core2Quads, and most of AMDs new chips too.
This i3-2120 is faster than quite a lot of things. Pros: Go to and look up the charts for these new sandy bridge processors.