14 DAY TRIAL // When it intros high-end and mainstream CPUs, Intel always shouts the news from the rooftops, metaphorically speaking, but it doesn't do the same for entry-level (low-end), cheaper chips. Fortunately, other parties always keep an eye out for them anyway.
That's why the people at CPU World saw the release of the newest wave of Haswell CPUs as soon as it came, and it isn't exclusively made of low-speed, low-power Pentium chips. No, there are some Core i3 parts as well.
Admittedly, the latter are dual-core units just like the Pentiums, but they possess Hyper-Threading technology, allowing the Windows operating system to see four logical cores (threads) instead of a single pair.
The Pentium units all have integrated HD graphics with a clock of 1,100 MHz, while the Core i3 chips use HD 4400 or 4600, at 1,150 MHz.
Furthermore, the integrated memory controllers can handle 1,600 MHz memory, except for the two weakest Pentium processors, which is no surprise. After all, the price of $64 / €64 had to come at some sort of trade-off.
Moreover, the cache memory is of 3 MB or 4 MB (the latter only on the two strongest of the four Core i3 chips). That leaves the TDP (thermal design power), which is of 35W for the low-power T units and 53/54W for the others.
The new dual-core CPUs from Intel will be used in many OEM PCs. Specifically, computers made wholly by branded companies and sold as a whole, instead of the type you put together from retailed parts.
Some of them, the Pentiums especially, should find their way into embedded systems, like point-of-sale machines and kiosks.
However, the newcomers, or most of them, also have what it takes to power mainstream desktops. After all, between their two cores with up to 3.8 GHz frequency and the integrated graphics, they can play even 4K UHD media just fine, which is all that non-gaming computers require really.
Thus, the Pentium G3250, G3460, Core i3-4160 and i3-4370 could be considered mid-range chips, with the others being the low-end ones of the lot. The fact that the former reach prices of $149 / €149 supports this classification.
Retailers should have some or all of the new Intel CPUs up for sale soon, if they don't already. Hopefully exchange rates and other factors (like shipping costs, local demand or lack thereof, and the whims of the retailers themselves) won't inflate the tags too much.
