Professional processor comparison

Before buying a processor, you always need to carefully study the offer. This will make it possible to make a comparison of the processors to buy an excellent product and, preferably, inexpensively. Of course, if it's important for you to choose such a processor, which will have an excellent combination of price / quality. Next, it will be explained what points you need to pay attention to, and which ones you do not.

To begin with, you need to decide what kind of performance you want from your computer. If you want a powerful computer, then you need a model of the last generation or a little worse, but not much. The best option is to put the processor core i7. If the computer is needed only for simple work in the office, then a simple single-core processor will go.

What should you look at in the first place? The number of cores, the clock frequency, lithography (in other words - the technology of production), the number of caches in the second or third level (if any). And most importantly, this is the type of connector. Because you need to take a processor of the type that you can connect to your computer. Otherwise, your computer will not start, because the processor will not work. However, before the launch it will not come, because you simply can not install your new purchase.

After you determine which processors are suitable for your computer, you should choose the ones that are most suitable for you and start comparing the processors. To date, there are many sites that can compare all kinds of models by different criteria and parameters. It is worth noting that, for example, the most powerful, or almost the most powerful, from the middle-class line of models will be stronger and more productive than the weak processor from the newer and the latest processor family. The cost of models from the same line can be very different. It all depends on the characteristics of a particular model.

Let's make a comparison of processors on the example of the most common rulers to date: "Dual Core", "Core" and various "AEK"

The first of the list is weaker, but also the most common, since their cost is lower. But most of the market's consumers are middle class, who have older motherboard models that can draw single-core "Duals", or de "Celerons". These processors are weaker, but cheaper. They can be played in simple games and work without problems and deal with office matters. "Dual core" will be much stronger than the "Celeron" model, but in comparison with others it is rather weak.

The line of processors "Kor" i3, i5, i7 is considered more solid, but also expensive. The larger the number, the newer the processor type. It is worth noting that the cost varies considerably. Models from the "Core i7" series are available only to well-off people.

If you have a motherboard of the old generation, then it has a "LGA775" connector. Previously, it was quite common, it can mount processors of various models, both cheap and expensive.

With the advent of new processors, new motherboards also appeared, on which new sockets (connectors) are installed: LGA versions 1156 and 1155, for "Core i3" and "i5"; LGA 1366 for the line of "Core i7". The "i3" and "i5" series have two generations, which differ, as a result, and made two different types of connectors.

Let's make a comparison of the processors by the number of cores in them. In the "Dual" there are two poisons. In the "i3" - 2, and in the 5 lineup either 2 or 4. I would like to stress the number of cores in the series of duals, since they have 2 cores, but they are not full. I will give a vivid example of the situation. For example, let's take an apple. And cut it in half. In the "Dual" 2, the cores work like two slices of an apple, and in other dual-core CPUs, two full kernels are involved, that is, two separate apples.

Now about the clock frequency. In "duals" it fluctuates in the region from 1.6 to 3.33 GHz. In the "ai 3" 1.2-3.33 GHz. In the "ai 5" 1.2-3.6 GHz. As you can see, there is not much difference.

As it was written above, special attention should be given to the cache volume of the most accessible level in the processor. In the "Dual-Core" L2 cache is only 1 MB (there are excellent models, where the cache is 2 MB, but basically everywhere 1 MB). Here already in i3 and i5 the third level of the cache is implemented. In the third "aike" it is from 3 to 4 MB. Here "i5", as a more serious model, has an L3 cache equal to 4 or 8 MB.