Intel BX80662I36100 Intel Core i3 6100 Skylake Dual-Core 3.7 GHz Processor

Honestly this is the best processor you can go with if you're on budget and want a gaming pc. This processor won't bottleneck graphics card like the GTX 1060 and provides amazing performance in games. In my current rig I have a Core i3 6100 paired with a GTX 770 and I can smash AAA titles at High-Ultra at 1080p and receive solid smooth frame rates. If you do have more money to spend on a cpu I would go with the Core i5-6500 but honesty you don't need an i5 to game. I had a maximum budget of £350 and this processor ticked all the boxes, so glad I didn't go with the AMD Ahtlon X4 860K...

Bought this as part of a cheap gaming computer for a family member. Paired with a Nvidia GTX 970 and 8gb of DDR4 ram it is able t run most modern games comfortably. As most games depend hugely on the GPU, with many more not even using more than 2 cores, the speed of this processor means it performs really well. If you intend of using this for multiple tasks over many screens, or for any form of rendering, then consider and i5 instead. Otherwise this is a great choice for a cheaper gaming PC.

A great little CPU if you can't afford the i5 or i7 series. Will run games ok (also dependant on your gfx card) but don't be expecting Amazon results.

Totally impressed with cpu, wanted an i5 6600k like everyone else does but could not currently streach to it, however this i3 6100 flies, am using it with an asus z170 pro gaming m/board 16gig 3000mhz corsair ram, r9 380oc video on a cheep samsung 24in monitor and could not be happier, plays all my games no trouble at all and very smooth, but!! to get the best out of it you must use a z170 m/board with 3000+ ram and a good vid card, the motherboard defaulted to 2400 at start up, and was noticably slower, believe the m/board will take 4000 ram, but expensive, highly recommended for a really good budget games machine unless you need bragging rights then it will cost you, A++++

It didn't fit on my machine

You can not criticise this CPU, the £100 price range for a 2 core with hyper threading (therefore a theoretical 4 core CPU) is perfect for budget or mid range builds. I would recommend picking up a motherboard with overclocking capabilities (like this Gigabyte Z170-GAMING K3 Socket 1151 Z170 Express DDR4 S-ATA 600 ATX Motherboard ) and a after market cooler (like this Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo Air CPU Cooler "RR-212E-16PK-R1, 4 x Heatpipe, 1x 120mm PWM Fan, Intel/AMD" ) to get a decent base clock of the CPU in the BIOS. Overall, this is a great CPU definitely worth the money!

This processor has performed really well for an i3, handling CS6 applications and 2D CAD with ease - great value. Seems to remain cool, even when under pressure with stock fan; efficient chip architecture at work here I have read good things for budget gaming use too.

I don't recommend this CPU to someone wanting to play triple A titles, I was helping a friend build a starter gaming PC, GTX 1060 and this i3 6300, honestly it was perfect on games like "the forest" which he initially only wanted to play and obviously holds up titles which are optimized great for any range of PC performance like "Warthunder" which it runs at max settings never skipping a beat. BUT my friend bought "Forza Horizon 3" and even on minimum settings this CPU chokes and the game has constant stutter, sometimes running at a solid 60fps but most of the time running at 40-50fps with constant stuttering, this stuttering is the same on any graphics setting lowest to medium high. By stuttering i mean "unplayable to someone that cares like a avid PC gamer" he's moving from console so to him he doesn't care that much, honestly for me i wouldn't even play the game for 5 minutes, it had input lag. I know the game requires a beefier 4 core processor as it's in the minimum recommended settings but my friend that was new to PC gaming didn't know anything about minimum settings before buying the game. Opening Skype and Forza horzion 3 made the game literally 5 FPS so it's a problem with only being a duel core with hyper threading and not actually 4 cores. I wouldn't recommend this Processor for gaming atall unless you don't want any triple A titles (this PC was built pre Ryzen and way before Ryzen 3, i'd recommend Ryzen 3 over this i3 any day) in short it will run without any problems *these have only been tested with a GTX 1060 3GB Warthunder - max settings 1080p Minecraft - max settings 1080p world of warships - max settings 1080p world of tanks - max settings 1080p the forest - medium to max settings 1080p

This is the budget iCore CPU - better than the plain Pentium but nearly at a double price. Still recommended for future proofing your PC (I use it in small factor Shuttle DH110 bare-bone). Great for multimedia center as it supports better internal graphics (Intel HD530) and runs very quite and cool!

Después de días y días de leer mil foros que si amd que si Intel que si con este Intel o este amd es suficiente para tus exigencias, que si mejor aumentar un poco más el presupuesto que si tal que si cual ,...me acabe decidiendo por este procesador por varios motivos. Antes que nada decir que lo compre para hacerle a mis padres un ordenador por piezas por su cumpleaños. 1. Entre amd e Intel son evidentes que los precios son más económicos en amd pero la calidad de estos es peor. Se calientan más (tengo amd en mi ordenador) y es cierto y su rendimiento no es tan bueno como Intel. Rinde más Intel que amd a igualdad de precio aunque amd tenga más núcleos. No todos son los núcleos. Este Intel trae de por sí un disipador que hace que no sea necesario pillar otro aparte ya que apenas consume, mientras que amd al consumir más y dar tanto calor habría que gastar también en un disipador gastando más dinero. Ya aquí descarte amd y me decanté por Intel. 2. Ahora tocaba elegir entre las distintas generaciones de Intel que hay. La 1150 o skylale 1151. Entre un i3 de una generación y otra había unos 17€ o así. Debido a por si en el futuro hubiera que hacer algo en el pc siempre sería más sencillo y barato encontrar piezas de lo ultimo que de lo antiguo sumado a que si estoy montando un pc de cero pues ya aprovecho y pillo la nueva generación con su leve mejora respecto a la anterior. En este punto por tanto decidí pillar skylale. 3. Ahora lo más coñazo, pillar un pentium, un i3, un i5,... Los precios varían bastante. Con un pentium para el uso que van a dar mis padres estoy seguro que a día de hoy les va a ir bien, pero de aquí a unos años (quiero que el pc dure los máximos años posibles ) cuando los programas exijan más tiene menos recorrido ese pentium que el i3. Por lo cual me decidí por i3 sobre pentium. Luego mire i5 pero eso ya si que era innecesario. Por ahora muy satisfecho con el rendimiento del procesador y nuevo pc de mis padres.

Habe mich bewusst für einen I3 entschieden auch wenn es nur ein 2 Kerner (Virtueller 4 Kerner). Ich mache zurzeit eine Ausbildung und da ist das Geld einfach nicht so reich vorhanden. Ich habe diesen I3 mit einer Radeon RX 460 zusammen am laufen und bin begeistert. Hatte vorher einen FX 8320 und zusammen mit dieser Grafikkarte bekam ich gerade so 40 bis max 60 Fps in GTA V. Mit dem I3 und gleicher Grafikkarte schaffe ich schon min 60 bis max 80 Fps in GTA V. Der kleine hat echt Power und ich kann ihm jeden empfehlen, der nicht so viel Geld hat oder ausgeben möchte und trotzdem gut spielen will. Das ist ein echter geheim Tipp in Sachen CPU. Einfach spitze und an alle die sagen, zum zocken muss man einen I5 haben der locker mal 80 bis 120 Euro mehr kostet, ohne mich! ;D Ich bin super zufrieden und bereue den Kauf nicht. Habe mit dazu noch das Mainboard Msi H110M und 2 x 4gb DDR4 gekauft. Konnte alles sogar ohne Windows Neuinstallation tauschen.

Au départ j'étais partis pour prendre un i5 série K. Et la sortie des kaby lake étant proche j'ai pas trop voulu investir dans un processeur haut de gamme. J'ai donc commande ce i3 série Skylake et j'en suis pas déçu !! Il culmine à 3.7 GHz, et reste à moins de 50° avec un TX evo 212 (ventirad d’origine trop bruyant), et est très silencieux malgrè tout. Il répond très bien au demande que je lui soumet (modélisation, streaming, gaming), couplé à une gtx 750 ti il fait tourner par exemple: - skyrim à 60 fps en ultra haute définition (1080p) - fallout 4 à 60 fps en hight (1080p) - fallout new vegas à 60 fps en ultra - wow en ultra à 135 fps et même gta V à 40 fps en medium !! Alors oui la nouvelle génération d'i3 skylake supporte le gaming si couplé à un bon GPU. Il est idéal pour de configurations à moins de 600e comme la mienne :)

Just completed 2 Mini ITX HTPC builds/rebuilds with these new Skylake chips. Wow! these units edge out the performance of my nearly 3 year old Ivy Bridge I7-3770S and I5-3570K builds for less than half the cost. Now and 3 years ago I used the best available Asrock ITX boards to enhance what I want in these units: feature rich power HTPC's that can run nearly silently with ultra low profile CPU fans without burning up. With the previous builds I had to use the motherboard's built in controls to slightly underclock the CPU's to get the thermal and quiet noise level patterns I wanted. Now I have used 2 new Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac boards with thirteen buck Rosewill RCX-Z775-LP 80mm Sleeve Low Profile CPU Coolers that without underclocking run the new I3's quietly 10-15 Celsius lower than the old builds. Plus I now have HTPC's that have HDMI 2.0 ports that can run 4K video at 60Hz. I am not a gamer, so I also used the Fatal1ty Z170 Gaming-ITX/ac boards to get the new USB3.1 and C ports and upgraded Audio. I suspect that gamers on a budget could put the cash saved on this Skylake I3 into a good Graphics board and small SSD - and still have a rocking machine. Recommend: Don't skimp on the motherboard though. Update: 5/18/2016: Just saw some old comments/questions: Yes, I am using onboard graphics only. My HTPC enclosures are only about 8X8X2.5 inches. In these tiny boxes the older I7 & I5 Ivy Bridge temperatures ran up fan speeds and noise too much for my tastes while watching video, so I artificially under clocked them in the bios to reduce the thermal profiles and quiet the fans to unnoticeable beyond 12-18 inches away from the units. The I3 Skylake builds run quietly as HTPC's without bios setting modifications. The only time fan speeds and noise increase are during maintenance tasks such as virus scans and OS update installs which run quickly with the I3's. But for my personal preference for snappy maintenance, the G4400 or G4500 Skylake dual-cores might have worked well as HTPC's for me. I did build a totally silent HTPC using an Asrock Q1900DC-ITX board which includes an Intel Quad-Core Processor J1900 with fanless heat sink and built in DC/DC power for cheap. It runs well as a HTPC, but it's pokey running maintenance tasks, so like the I3's better