In people's impression, i3 has always been a relatively chicken processor, the performance is not strong enough, but the unit price is also 800-1000 yuan, in short, it is not very cost-effective. But there's a reason for that, and Intel will emphasize the value of its layout, which is not, in the Core 12 generation, the i3 has also become more powerful, and has appeared.
The i3-12100F uses a 10nm ESF process + Golden Cove high-performance core (4P + 0E) with 4 cores and 8 threads. The base frequency is 3.3GHz and the turbo frequency can reach 4.3GHz. Its power consumption is 58W, the maximum power consumption is 89W, or quite tough.
Some enthusiasts have overclocked it with an air-cooled radiator, and the performance is impressive, of course, the desktop will not overclock, but the performance improvement within the normal 89W power consumption is still OK.
The computer that uses i3-12100F is the NMK500 of the Ningmei degree, which in addition to the i3-12100F, also has 8GB DDR4 3200MHz memory, 256GB M.2 SSD, GTX1030 unique display, 2GB GDDR5 memory.
The motherboard is an M-ATX compact motherboard, B660M chipset, integrated water-cooled heatsink, mid-tower chassis, 300W power supply.
It does not come with a chassis cooling fan, but it is not impossible to install, and it should be more likely to improve the heat dissipation effect of the CPU after installation, because the graphics card is only a bright card.
Overall, the combination of the i3-12100F plus GTX1030 graphics card is not ideal, but it is really cheap, and perhaps the i3-12100 with the integrated UHD Graphics 730 is a better choice.
In short, this year's desktop within 3,000 yuan, you can indeed consider the i3-12100 processor, the price has an advantage, sex can be used, there should be a good performance.