Intel i3 i3-4160 Dual Core Processor (3.60GHz, Socket H3)

While this was launched in mid 2014, this is far from out of date. Yes, there are newer processors out there but for the price you pay, this is still excellent value for money. I was tasked by a family member to build a new pc for them, however they were on a bit of a budget. I had a look at a few CPUs but I knew from my experience that this chip was one of the better ones in the range I had looked at. While this is not ideal for a gaming rig of today standards, you can play GTA V without issue, although it also depends on what GPU you pick up but when I tested it with a GTX760 it worked wonderful. As for the heat, I have to be honest and say that the temperatures never got above a worrying level for me when I tested it on the test bench. If you find that you have issues with cooling, then perhaps look at getting a small after market CPU heatsink or maybe water cooling option.

Bought this as a replacement to a dead A8 APU after my PSU (amazon bought!) fried my PC. Partnered with a simple micro atx MSI board, some good RAM and my old discrete card that I had out of my PC at the time. I'd never worked with Intel chips before but they are dead simple to lock in. The stock cooler is super quiet. Be sure to unravel the wires from around it first as if not they catch. I'm very impressed with this CPU which I use for my home office & light gaming PC. I'm a total Intel convert.

If you are looking for a Haswell i3 then the 4160 appears to be the 'no brainer' choice. If you do a little shopping around you will find less than £10 difference between this and the 4130 giving you a very significant 200mhz bump in performance. To get another increase in performance will push you over £100 which quite frankly is way to close to i5 prices to make any sense. I built a budget gaming machine using this and I am very impressed with the performance, paired with an NVidia GTX 760 and 8gb 1600mhz performance RAM it quite happily played anything at 1080p on a combination of ultra and high graphics presets. The only thing that had to be dialled down was anti-aliasing. The only reason I gave this 4 stars is more of a criticism towards Haswell itself in that I have noticed the chips produce significantly more heat than previous generations, I understand this is likely to do with the increased graphical performance of the Haswell chips but when paired with a discreet graphics card you are seeing no benefit only the increase in heat.

For me, this (or the 4170) is the ideal processor for a standard family or home office PC. The socket (1150) leaves plenty of room for a future upgrade dependent on your motherboard and can handle most tasks with ease. I'd even recommend it for a budget gaming build too. Will be buying again for a future build.

Brilliant CPU. I bought this for gaming, My previous AMD FX 4100, just wasn't cutting the mustard anymore and being a student I was on a strict budget. I can say this cpu handles GTA V, I have it paired with a AMD HD 7850 GPU and although it won't play eveything at 1080p 60fps, it is more than adequate for a sub £100 CPU.

Very easy to install ( no nasty little pins to bend) and seems to be working well. Certainly much faster and with greater flexibility than my previous chip. Fan included.

I am using this whilst saving for an i7 4790k. It works well in aaa games paired with my evga gtx 670 ftw and msi z87m gaming mobo, 8gb ram. The hyperthreading is a boon for the price and is a must have. If you are thinking of getting the penguin dual cores I would suggest paying the extra £25 as you can notice the difference. If you are going to try and future proof your system for the next couple of years for gaming, I would suggest going for an i5 or i7 k series. This works great as a place holder cpu or for standard pc use (word,internet and average gaming) I do recommend

Brilliant processor for the money. Runs everyrhing i throw at it without batting an eyelid. Paired with a GTX750TI IT plays all the latest games with details cranked right up.

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Bien sur, c'est un processeur de génération antérieure, mais il fait très bien son boulot, et surtout la consommation est maîtrisée et donc il ne chauffe pas.Il est monté sur une carte mère mini ITX Asus H81I-Plus et dans un boitier INWIN CHOPIN. Avec un SSD de 250 Go, mini PC de bureautique hyper réactif.Un bonheur au quotidien...et sans le moindre bruit, car l'alimentation du boitier est inaudible, et le ventirad est un Noctua L9i totalement silencieux.

Excelente procesador a un precio muy competitivo. Con el disipador y la pasta térmica incluidos y el procesador gráfico integrado puede ser el núcleo de un ordenador de gama media sin pretensiones. Algunos aconsejarán un i5, pero son 100 euros más. A no ser q se tenga muy claro en que se van a aprovechar las ventajas de ese i5, yo invertiría esos 100 euros en montar un ssd que ofrece ventajas muy palpables respecto a un disco duro tradicional. Lo he montado en una placa Asus H-81 M Plus con 8 gb de ram kingston fury, un ssd samsung de 120 gigas para el SO y otros programas y un disco duro sata de 500 gb para almacenamiento.

Choosing i3 over i5 at below 10k is the best choice for PC builders. This CPU is best at its clock speed and low power consumption. The only disadvantage is that the stock cooler makes more noise. My suggestion is that upgrading with a good liquid cooler might keep the CPU temperatures down to 30 degrees with less fan noise.

CPU ottima dal punto di vista del rapporto costo/prestazioni, rende davvero il computer scattante (accoppiato con un qualsiasi SSD ovviamente, altrimenti il drive diventa la parte lenta del sistema), fa girare tranquillamente qualsiasi gioco e asseconda egregiamente quello che può essere il carico di lavoro di un pc multimediale o da ufficio. Le temperature in idle sono irrisorie e il dissipatore fornito è in grado di mantenere le temperature in un range accettabile in qualsiasi situazione di utilizzo. A meno di non lavorare in modo continuato con programmi di codifica video o di accoppiarlo a una scheda video di altissima gamma e giocare ad alte risoluzioni, questa potrebbe essere la CPU perfetta per voi.