I always thought bigger number = better in the terms of pc components. Recently ive learned i5s can compete with i9s. I saw a post one day that said “i could replace your processors with i3’s and almost none of you would even notice”
How does this work?
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So, fun fact. Your i5 most likely started out as an i9, still surprised people haven’t talked about this.
Intel has no interest in making i5s outright really, why make them when you can just make i9s instead, they generally cost the same to make.
Issue is that silicon manufacturing has defects. It can happen that intel makes an i9, but theres a tiny defect that kills one core on the processor, so they disable that core and the weakest core beside that and call it an i5 and sell it to you that way.
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