Surface 3 - New direction, higher prices and crappy i3

[fishy_fiz]

Generally there's not a big difference between an i5 and i7 for gaming. An i7 is quite similar, but has hyperthreading (which doesnt often help and sometimes hinders gaming performance). Additionally intel cpus, minus the k series are pretty much clock locked these days.
As for i3, its far from crappy. A modern i3 will outperform older i5 and i7's in lighter threaded software on occassions, and is very power economical. And lastly, as of hd4000, intel gpus are no longer terrible (they'll beat earlier apus from amd.

Lots of uninformed, innacurate "information" being spewed here, but I guess truth and accuracy arent really the point of the thread.

[fishy_fiz]

What a crock. An i7 and i5 trade blows for superiority in gaming. As already stated hyperthreading (the only real difference between the 2) sometimes hurts performance for gaming giving an i5 the edge. Clock for clock there's no real difference.

[fishy_fiz]

Nah, its more likely other crappy h/w in a system holding the system back. Ive run Win8 on older dual core systems and Win8 ran nicely. Dont forget that unlike an i5 an i3 has hyperthreading, giving it 4 threads, which is much more useful for an OS than for single tasks (ie. most gaming)