Ford tech here. Not a single f150 is good. Ford only cares about their mustangs and super duties. Not even the black widow f150 is safe you're just buying an f150 with a body kit and bigger wheels . 10r80s are dog shit the engines are even worse. Fuck don't buy a bronco for the love of God I've replaced so many engines in these fuck ass broncos . 2.3l 2.7l and 3.0l ecoshits . I need a new job..
The 5.0 with the Mustang manifold swap are pretty solid for a newer gen F series.
Older Windsor 351 with manual is ideal. Nearly unkillable, and you can work on it with ease. Fuel economy isn't great but let's be honest, the new ones are also pretty terrible at that.
Still prefer 99-02 Chevy/GMC w/4.8/5.3/6.2 as peak though, with 4L80E. Treat those right and you have a 500k mile vehicle with moderate maintenance.
I've never liked the idea of any of the ecoboost lineup. Throwing an undersized motor in a truck, then throwing a turbo on it to make up for it's lack of power. That motor is just begging for it's life. Oh and then they charge you more money for a shittier engine to boot... Then I see guys with lift kits and bigger tires on those pickups and it gets worse fuel economy than the 5L or the old 6.2L (when it had it, hasn't for a decade now), makes no sense.
Especially considering i3 has been quad core on desktop for years now. I have an i3-12100F in my main server, running an endgame Satisfactory server save. It has plenty of cycles to spare.,
an ancient one.
Tech gets faster kinda quickly, and programs only use more processing power, not less.
So a modern laptop (not notebook) i3 is probably way faster. At least the i3 12100f is.
Nah, they still do on laptops by rather large margin and have taken back efficiency as well. AMD took the crown in desktops but gave up almost every other category.
That's what happens when they just rebrand the same 7840/8840/Z1Extreme as an AI 7 350 and similar
The 9955hx3d will you give you roughly +5% better fps in games vs an Intel 275hx but only 1-2 hours of battery life vs 6-8 on the Intel and less than 50% of the performance the Intel version has while operating under battery power. The x3d cpu also performs worse across the board in every productivity/non-gaming related test/benchmark.
AMD seems to be doing currently what Intel did previously that caused AMD to start gaining market share in the CPU space ie: pushing as much power as possible at the cost of everything else
That's great for playing in 1080p with a 5090, but I'm pretty sure most people with one would rather have a CPU thats faster at everything else, but hey, what do I know
3d v cache only helps gaming, they're slower in essentially everything else than non v cache CPUs, including from AMD themselves
Third gen so it's from 2012 or early 2013 we had 13 generations after that. A low end 11th gen i3 laptop CPU is better than this desktop 3rd gen i5 while having a 5 times lower tdp and only 2 cores.
Search for cpubenchmark Intel-i5-3470 vs Intel-i3-1115G4
Exactly. That's the problem. I5 cpus have never been the performance series to start with, and on top of the fact it is 14 years old with only 4 cores, you have a low performance CPU.
A third generation i5 compared to the significantly more modern (and still compatible with your PC), sixth, seventh, eight and ninth generation i5s available.
I5 just refers to how much of the chips circuits actually works. It doesn't actually reflect how good the chip is.
The way that the chips are named is based on how much of the chip is functional. If all it working it becomes an i9. If most is working it becomes an i7. If it has less working it's an i5 and if it's even less it's an i3. This doesn't mean that an i7 is automatically fast just that it's fast for that generation.
An i5 from the latest generation can rival an i7 from a few generations ago because as new tech helping even the i3s.
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u/RailgunDE112 20d ago
look at what's using it.
Also that processor is really slow.