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Considering this cheap is even more affordable than many of AMD’s range, there’s got to be a catch, right? And there is, although it’s one that will only arise in the most recent of games, say those released in the last year or two. Intel has cut costs by making the i3 4350 a twin-cored CPU, which means it will truly struggle to run games that rely heavily on multithreading, such as Battlefield 4. On the other hand, it’s fine to run older titles that only utilise a single CPU core.
Being built on the Haswell architecture, this CPU is made using the 22nm process that is soon to be replaced by Broadwell’s 14nm process. Despite only having twin cores, it comes with Intel’s Hyperthreading technology, which,…