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What is a Core i3, Core i5, or Core i7 as Fast As Possible

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- I love Intel as much as anyone.

They make cool products, they engage

in lots of community stuff, and I mean heck,

they're even a major sponsor of my other channel.

But man, when it comes to confusing product naming schemes,

I think Core i3, Core i5, Core i7 takes the cake.

I mean, great question!

What is a Core i7 479GK?

What the heck does all of this even mean?

We'll get to that.

But first a bit of background about why we need

product names for processors.

Wouldn't it be simpler to just label them

with how many gigahertz they run at and call it a day?

Simpler, sort of, but at times actually even more confusing.

For example, when the Pentium 4 launched

an equivalently clocked Pentium 3

was actually faster because it could do more work

with each cycle.

As a customer, I would expect the product

with the higher number to be the better one!