Is the i3 370M good in 2023?

[@ZeroSkillNoBrain]

This igpu is still faster than what i used to play on in 2018-2019,i had a nvidia geforce 8400gs revision 2 with 256mb of ddr2 vram and only 8 cuda cores and i can stay that still igpu is faster in all the games presented

[@digitaljon1109]

That is a good sign!

[@mc10guru]

Ahoy, thanks for the video. This performance reminds me of my Cybernet All-in-one office computer. It had great specs for the time except for the Atom D525 CPU with Intel GMA3150 GPU. It ran LibreOffice perfectly and was good for reading web pages and PDF docs. But the graphics were terrible. KZbin at 480p skipped ~20% frames; any higher was a slide show. So it is on my collection shelf now. Cheers, daveyb PS: I got the new Evolve III Maestro 11G with the Celeron N4120 4c Gemini Lake CPU and UHD 600 GPU. It runs circles around the N3150 model. db

[@digitaljon1109]

Yup! That Atom is pretty slow! I'd like to get one some day.

[@Callypso742]

My laptop is exactly the same and i am not very proud of it

[@digitaljon1109]

I would be proud of it. It has survived so many years and it's still going. :-)

[@dynakarpet]

Damn, good video, first gen i3 do be getting be like a Celeron these days, but newer Celerons can be a little bit better than the 1st gen i3 haha

[@digitaljon1109]

My modern LGA 1700 Intel Pentium G7400 (same CPU socket as the i9 13900K), beats the i7 3770 by quite a lot even.

[@vnbii_]

How do I make the processor speed to its maximum?

[@user-ro1cc8tz6d]

3:30 this is very interesting because I remember getting decent fps at low preset on my i3-380 on 1366x768. are you sure you disabled portal recursion?

[@digitaljon1109]

What is portable recursion?

[@AntySyjon]

I have Asus X52J SE as a retro gaming PC,i3 370m, 6GB ram, radeon HD 5470M 512 MB, All games about 1998-2005 works fine like gothic 2, Heroes V, Neverwinter 1 i 2, Morrowind, also I can comfortable play games even like Dragon Age origins, Kings Bounty legends, so this is very nice old setup especially when you treat it like a retro computer with windows XP or win 7, Win 10 is too much for it

[@digitaljon1109]

I find Windows 10 runs just as good as Windows 7 did. But in terms of gaming, good point! Older games/retro games should run a lot better! 🍪

[@vyacheslav6620]

I have old laptop Asus with i3 370m + Nvidia 310M 1Gb + 8Gb + SSD with Windows 10 LTSC. 14 years old and it still not bad like "third retro PC" for docs, media, simple games and NES emulator etc :D Im going upgrade it by i5 560m but its just my "closure"

[@digitaljon1109]

I'm glad to see you're still using it! Have you upgraded to the i-5? How do you like the i5 if you have?

[@user-ro1cc8tz6d]

1:58 actually I benchmarked my i3-380 laptop against lg g2 from 2014. On laptop I run android x86 project and lg g2 would beat it at cpu and gpu tests. I don't remember the exact benchmark software but it had a chinese game like destiny in it. i3-380 had the shadows glitched although performance wasn't terrible

[@digitaljon1109]

Thanks for reminding me about being able to run Android on your computer. I remember I can also install a Google operating system too can't i?

[@SuperDaxrider]

Come on dude, that laptop was never meant to be used for gaming. I was expectig the opinion from someone who tested the laptop for actual Office and multimedia tasks and with 4GB of RAM? you have to be kidding me. OH, btw.... for the people who might be interested in the ACTUAL question... yes Its absolutely capable even with windows 11 but Id recoomend to install 8gb of RAM in total and a nice 256GB Sata SSD to havce a nice experience. (Tested on a Packard Bell EasyNote TK85, the exact same computer as the one shown in this video)

[@Filipciio]

you have to be kidding me someone still using this old shitty laptop first of all this thing was never meant to be used for anything

[@SuperDaxrider]

@@Filipciio not kidding I use it very sporadically for very specific tasks.... Anything but gaming

[@digitaljon1109]

This can run Windows 10 just fine. Windows 11 not so much, as you need to hack the installer to even install it. Once it is installed, it does work fine, but you don't get the big updates.

[@78treize]

@@digitaljon1109 i installed Windows 10 on the hdd of toshiba c660 after upgrading ram to 8gb it was horrible if i instal win 10 on ssd will it run fine ? TNX.

[@EXIOO_1]

Damn, i always thought my i5-540m is the worst. Never knew there is something even worse

[@digitaljon1109]

If you want something worth calling horrible look into the Intel salon g440, or the AMD athlon 160u.

[@alexmihai22]

Now install 8GB DDR3, i5 560M, test again, and you will see a significant difference.

[@digitaljon1109]

Probably, and also a GPU with some sort of dock.

[@user-ro1cc8tz6d]

this gpu is just perfect for the bombsquad where it achieves 60fps on 1366x768 at high

[@digitaljon1109]

Great!

[@BellyZeeZee]

am using an Aspire 5742 i3-370M whith hd graphic128vr and 6gb of

[@digitaljon1109]

Nice! Do you like it?

[@PoisonHear1]

У меня есть ноутбук с таким же процессором, но у него видеокарта GeForce 310m и можно поиграть в World of Warcraft начиная от ваниллы и заканчивая Mists of Pandaria (естественно на приватных серверах)

[@digitaljon1109]

That is awesome! How do you like it?

[@pujanggatersesat]

If i want to upgrade with core i5 or core i7 .... which processor that compatible with socket rpga 989 ? ... i want to know and recommendations ... thanks before

[@digitaljon1109]

It really depends, does your laptop have an IGPU? Or is it's only IGPU the one on the CPU? I ask as some of the i7's (the 4 core ones) don't have an IGPU, so it will only work if your laptop has a separate IGPU. But all the dual core i7's should work fine. Also, the CPU socket is "PGA988". Sorry for the late reply, I was on vacation, got back, was taking time off, and I am back now! ;p Also here is a list of all the CPU's on that CPU socket. www.cpu-world.com/Sockets/Socket%20G1%20(rPGA988A).html

[@festeezy]

i7 640m is the best upgrade for the socket did you end up doing it

[@SmilingPastries-tw2ev]

Can i use this for decent web development

[@digitaljon1109]

I have no idea what that requires, but it probably will work.

[@foxroyalyty]

bro those are the specs of the laptop I am using right now and spoiler alert even web browsing isn't smooth

[@digitaljon1109]

I find web browsing smooth on it. Weird!

[@sigo_a_admins_5.084]

I have 8 gb ram and i purchase used my Gateway

[@digitaljon1109]

Nice! 8 GB of DDR3 RAM should be more than enough for a system like that. :-)

[@geelee1977]

I wonder how this would change in Linux

[@digitaljon1109]

I find Linux does not really perform much better than Windows, so I think about the same.

[@digitaljon1109]

(I also don't know what I am doing in Linux).

[@geelee1977]

@@digitaljon1109 I've personally had positive results with Linux. I find significant performance increases. So much that I almost exclusively use Linux now.

[@digitaljon1109]

Awesome! I suck at it, and end up having to reinstall the whole OS very quickly due to a minor mistake, or something. @@geelee1977

[@misobyg6186]

my old laptop is similar it's i3-350m 4gb ram and ???!!! Nvidia GeForce gt325m 1gb !!! in played AC2 and dirt3 on it back in the day xD so a bit better than yours

[@digitaljon1109]

Awesome! Did you like it?

[@AzenalBaidin]

lmao, i do have the more "better" cpu, its i3 380M and its running on linux with 4 gb ram on 1333, i use hdd because its already slow so why not, it "run" for any given task, just slow, it screaming by only watching 1080p youtube video, but hey, it a 64bit cpu so it still can install the newest app,

[@digitaljon1109]

Yes! 64 Bits is a must in 2023! Windows 10 does have a 32 Bit version, but sadly a lot of stuff won't even work on it.

[@doctorown9829]

Please share drivers

[@digitaljon1109]

Which drivers? I just use the Windows Update to get the drivers for the laptops like this. I struggle to find the drivers on Intel's websites, so Windows Update is the best. But my Intel ARC A380 I can find easy, as well as All my Nvidia, and AMD GPU's.

[@lunarltv]

do an athlon ii x4 645

[@digitaljon1109]

I don't have that exact cpu. But I do have some phenoms that are similar. I do plan to get to them in the future. But I have a lot going on currently. And I might not be able to make a video coming up the reason why it's I'm going to be on vacation again. This time going to my uncle's house, he passed away and we need to figure out all the paperwork and he lives across the country.

[@lunarltv]

@@digitaljon1109 Im sorry for your loss, hope everything is okay. Those athlon cpus cost 12 usd tho, sometimes free shipping. I bought one for 17 a while back and its an okay cpu.