Being offered 1 of 2 PCs: i3-4150 or G4560 builds. Which one should I "steal"?

[idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b]

Hi!

 

So we are being sent to work for home. We do usual regular office work. Nothing fancy. Chrome most of the time to be honest. 

 

I am being offered 1 of these 2 PCs. 

 

I wish I knew all the info but this is about it: 

 

Build 1: 

Core i3-4150 (with built-in GPU)

8GB DDR3

SSD

 

Build 2: 

Pentium G4560 (with built-in GPU)

16GB DDR4 (or it might be 8, not really sure)

NVME drive

 

 

Was wondering - which one of these would you guys go for? As I said, I do mostly Chrome. Monitor is 1080p. I do like 1440p YouTube though :)

 

Thanks so much! 

 

[Nocte]

G4560 is a better CPU and has better other components. 

[Guest]

I'd go with the Pentium system. The whole system is on a newer platform so it has a newer motherboard, faster RAM and possibly faster storage. Also the pentium cpu is faster than the old Core-i3.

[idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b]

Just now, Nocte said:

G4560 is a better CPU and has better other components. 

Thank you for the info! 

[idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b]

Just now, Medicate said:

I'd go with the Pentium system. The whole system is on a newer platform so it has a newer motherboard, faster RAM and possibly faster storage. Also the pentium cpu is faster than the old Core-i3.

That's surprising and I am glad I asked. Thank you! 

[Biomecanoid]

7 minutes ago, idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b said:

Hi!

 

So we are being sent to work for home. We do usual regular office work. Nothing fancy. Chrome most of the time to be honest. 

 

I am being offered 1 of these 2 PCs. 

 

I wish I knew all the info but this is about it: 

 

Build 1: 

Core i3-4150 (with built-in GPU)

8GB DDR3

SSD

 

Build 2: 

Pentium G4560 (with built-in GPU)

16GB DDR4 (or it might be 8, not really sure)

NVME drive

 

 

Was wondering - which one of these would you guys go for? As I said, I do mostly Chrome. Monitor is 1080p. I do like 1440p YouTube though

 

Thanks so much! 

 

They are almost the same like 5-10% difference. The Pentium G4560 is just a 2-3 years newer.  If you are stealing, do it properly get them both

[mariushm]

You'll have the benefit of being able to upgrade the CPU on the Pentium machine to something more powerful, should you want to... the first system would be capped to a much lower performance cpu.

The extra memory would also help, with day to day stuff.

[idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b]

1 minute ago, mariushm said:

You'll have the benefit of being able to upgrade the CPU on the Pentium machine to something more powerful, should you want to... the first system would be capped to a much lower performance cpu.

The extra memory would also help, with day to day stuff.

super important point. haven't even thought of it. THANK YOU

[porina]

For general workloads the 2nd system is probably better in most ways. The i3 is Haswell, and the Pentium is Kaby Lake, so enjoys a bit more general IPC given both run the same nominal clock. The only exception is if you have any software that intensively uses AVX2 instruction set. The i3 has it, but the Pentium does not. AVX2 code could run over 2x faster on the i3.

[Biomecanoid]

14 minutes ago, idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b said:

super important point. haven't even thought of it. THANK YOU

There are i5s and i7s for the same socket as i3

[idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b]

3 minutes ago, porina said:

IPC

Thank for the info!!!

 

What is IPC? 

[porina]

2 minutes ago, idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b said:

What is IPC? 

Instructions Per Clock. Generally speaking, this gets better with updated architectures. So running at the same clock, the newer Kaby Lake Pentium will generally do more work than the older Haswell i3, excluding the AVX2 workloads mentioned.

[Biomecanoid]

1 hour ago, idh1oi12jkl31jk2bgve3jk12b said:

Hi!

 

So we are being sent to work for home. We do usual regular office work. Nothing fancy. Chrome most of the time to be honest. 

 

I am being offered 1 of these 2 PCs. 

 

I wish I knew all the info but this is about it: 

 

Build 1: 

Core i3-4150 (with built-in GPU)

8GB DDR3

SSD

 

Build 2: 

Pentium G4560 (with built-in GPU)

16GB DDR4 (or it might be 8, not really sure)

NVME drive

 

 

Was wondering - which one of these would you guys go for? As I said, I do mostly Chrome. Monitor is 1080p. I do like 1440p YouTube though

 

Thanks so much! 

 

Get the 2nd option that has an updated socket and install a core processor