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A relic of the "High Frequency, Low Core Count" philosophy. Clocked at a snappy 3.9 GHz, the i3-7100 felt incredibly fast on the Windows desktop, launching Chrome tabs with the speed of Hermes. But with only two physical cores, it hit a brick wall the moment you tried to stream, multitask, or run a modern game.
It stands as a monument to the end of the dual-core era for gaming. Released just months before Ryzen changed the landscape, it is the last of the "old guard" budget chips—efficient, snappy, but ultimately obsolete the moment it hit the shelves. It’s like a very fast horse released the same year as the Model T Ford.
