Budget King: 130 Intel Core i3-12100F CPU Review & Benchmarks
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Date: 2022-01-11
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Quantum
Great review Gamers Nexus! This is a world-class overview of the chip for both gamers and people with a variety of workloads. For anyone wanting to put as much into GPU vs other hardware for a new Gaming PC build this video is for you and Gamers Nexus gives clear and concise advice on not just the CPU in the Video but other things to think about like Motherboards.
I really appreciate the stats and effort you all put into this review and look forward to the review of the IGP included variant.
Personally work with a variety of Small-Medium Business, Education and 'Data Analyst' clients in my day job and the stats on different workloads provided help me extrapolate where the best bang for buck is for them.
For example it's sounding like the IGP integrated variant (video to come I know) of this CPU in a NUC or similar mini-PC is going to work very well with SmartBoards in Classrooms and Boardrooms.
Whereas the higher end comparison helps me think about my clients working with high-end compute workloads. Well done!
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Great review Gamers Nexus! This is a world-class overview of the chip for both gamers and people with a variety of workloads. For anyone wanting to put as much into GPU vs other hardware for a new Gaming PC build this video is for you and Gamers Nexus gives clear and concise advice on not just the CPU in the Video but other things to think about like Motherboards.
I really appreciate the stats and effort you all put into this review and look forward to the review of the IGP included variant.
Personally work with a variety of Small-Medium Business, Education and 'Data Analyst' clients in my day job and the stats on different workloads provided help me extrapolate where the best bang for buck is for them.
For example it's sounding like the IGP integrated variant (video to come I know) of this CPU in a NUC or similar mini-PC is going to work very well with SmartBoards in Classrooms and Boardrooms.
Whereas the higher end comparison helps me think about my clients working with high-end compute workloads. Well done!
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mapesdhs
Given the limited clocks of the 12100F (which is holding it back in some tests for sure), this shows that a theoretical 5500X3D with a decent clock would be an absolute stormer, but will AMD release such a thing? I don't think so, not as long as they're selling every 5600X they can make. The 3300X was with hindsight obviously just a way to dump some dies that didn't bin well enough for higher SKUs, it was never a serious launch of a product with proper sustained backing. At least Intel is far more likely to maintain decent stock of the 12100F.
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Given the limited clocks of the 12100F (which is holding it back in some tests for sure), this shows that a theoretical 5500X3D with a decent clock would be an absolute stormer, but will AMD release such a thing? I don't think so, not as long as they're selling every 5600X they can make. The 3300X was with hindsight obviously just a way to dump some dies that didn't bin well enough for higher SKUs, it was never a serious launch of a product with proper sustained backing. At least Intel is far more likely to maintain decent stock of the 12100F.
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Santyago
At this point the 5600X being 300 or 280 occasionally on sale is just embarrassing, AMD bumped their prices up by 50 dollars on the 5000 series, ok fair enough you were on top and only released 4 CPUs, not even one sub 300 dollar CPU not even talking about sub 200 , but now these CPUs are 14 months old and getting beaten by Alder Lake and AMD is somehow still charging a premium, this is why competition is always good.
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At this point the 5600X being 300 or 280 occasionally on sale is just embarrassing, AMD bumped their prices up by 50 dollars on the 5000 series, ok fair enough you were on top and only released 4 CPUs, not even one sub 300 dollar CPU not even talking about sub 200 , but now these CPUs are 14 months old and getting beaten by Alder Lake and AMD is somehow still charging a premium, this is why competition is always good.
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cesar
CPUs are important but kinda boring. I'm not upgrading my threadripper workstation or my Intel 10900non k workpc or my Ryzen 5800x gaming/work PC any time soon. Perhaps maybe the next gen they bring out something better for my use cases am5 or Intel it will be based in efficiency, price & performance.
Now it seems AMD have a solid competition now prices should come to land Earth again
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CPUs are important but kinda boring. I'm not upgrading my threadripper workstation or my Intel 10900non k workpc or my Ryzen 5800x gaming/work PC any time soon. Perhaps maybe the next gen they bring out something better for my use cases am5 or Intel it will be based in efficiency, price & performance.
Now it seems AMD have a solid competition now prices should come to land Earth again
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Ben
Your video's are great btw, but i always wonder, okay you test some populair games, but i always wonder if you test CPU why don't test is on Football Manager, where you just generate a season and how fast it will be to generate a season, cause it's not GPU intensive...So testing an i3 to i9 and the amds and what the difference will be how fast 1 season will generate..
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Your video's are great btw, but i always wonder, okay you test some populair games, but i always wonder if you test CPU why don't test is on Football Manager, where you just generate a season and how fast it will be to generate a season, cause it's not GPU intensive...So testing an i3 to i9 and the amds and what the difference will be how fast 1 season will generate..
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It
Looking forward to see how AMD responds to this.
The closest competitor to this i3 is the 3300X, but we all know that like, 3 people were able to buy it before it disappeared into the void a while ago.
I wonder how will the 7000 series Ryzen chips perform, even tho we are still like 6 months away from that stuff.
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Looking forward to see how AMD responds to this.
The closest competitor to this i3 is the 3300X, but we all know that like, 3 people were able to buy it before it disappeared into the void a while ago.
I wonder how will the 7000 series Ryzen chips perform, even tho we are still like 6 months away from that stuff.
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ETophales
This CPU is a great argument against the core count fallacy. The 4 core 12100F beats the 8 core 3700X, and the 3900X is still only marginally better than the 3700X which is only marginally better than the 3600. This should shut up the people claiming consoles have 8 cores so you need 8 cores .
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This CPU is a great argument against the core count fallacy. The 4 core 12100F beats the 8 core 3700X, and the 3900X is still only marginally better than the 3700X which is only marginally better than the 3600. This should shut up the people claiming consoles have 8 cores so you need 8 cores .
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MCES
Gaming on PC's is getting affordable (Not!) 3060 ti 850 and up
When I built my gaming PC in 2012 the whole computer built cost me 900 this includes, Motherboard, GPU, CPU, CPU cooler, power supply, Windows 10, SDD hard drive, memory, and the HAF 912 case with fans in it keyboard and mouse too.
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Gaming on PC's is getting affordable (Not!) 3060 ti 850 and up
When I built my gaming PC in 2012 the whole computer built cost me 900 this includes, Motherboard, GPU, CPU, CPU cooler, power supply, Windows 10, SDD hard drive, memory, and the HAF 912 case with fans in it keyboard and mouse too.
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Tommy
Who would think that intel would make pc cheap again :)
Also, alto I'm not a biggest intel fan in recent years (since sandy bridge), it's good that empire strikes back - hopefully competition will bring prices to more manageable level and finally push innovation and performance forward.
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Who would think that intel would make pc cheap again :)
Also, alto I'm not a biggest intel fan in recent years (since sandy bridge), it's good that empire strikes back - hopefully competition will bring prices to more manageable level and finally push innovation and performance forward.
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itech
What y'all said about this one not having E-Cores is interesting, does this processor also runs into the same DRM problems with older games as the others? As a mostly vintage gamer, this was a huge deal breaker for me when it was pointed out.
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What y'all said about this one not having E-Cores is interesting, does this processor also runs into the same DRM problems with older games as the others? As a mostly vintage gamer, this was a huge deal breaker for me when it was pointed out.
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