(Poll) Which CPU did you pick?

Framework Laptop 12
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I’m actually really surprised that 40% of people chose the I3 I’d of thought a higher % of people would of gone with the cheaper model with plans to upgrade. I chose the I5 so I’m culprit myself but still interesting

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It kind of makes sense, in retrospect, because this forum will have more enthousiasts and power users. At the same time, the motherboard is very expensive: the i5 board actually costs almost as much as the entire base i3 config.

Interestingly, the FW12 i3 board is ~58% of the cost of the base machine, while the i5 board is a massive ~68%. Compared to ~48% for the FW13 and its basic board / configuration. If you don’t immediately have a plan for the i3 board you would eventually swap out, it actually makes sense to spec out the i5.

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I was wondering also. As so much people wrote that they chose the i3 as it is cheaper and they hope it will save battery

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Picked the i3. My reasoning was that the difference in benchmark results does not really seem massive (PassMark cpubenchmark shows scores 11365 and 13372 so i3 is -15%), and I also suspected that the single-channel memory might bottleneck the i5 in practice, reducing its advantage further (just an uninformed suspicion, not really an expert on this). Still decided to splurge on the 48 GB memory option. I can likely manage with 15% slower computation, but if I’m out of memory and need to start swapping, the slowdown will be too painful.

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I picked i3-1315u, because I have experience with Intel’s efficacy cores in i3-N355 for a small NAS and I’m satisfied. I’ll use traditional unix software on it.

Also I dislike nerfed hardware. As a test I bought separately a month ago a 15" laptop with i5-1334u paired with 2x 32GB DDR5 for Iris Xe iGPU working at 5600Mhz and this thing struggled with busy scenes in Dota 2 on Linux. It was noisy. It was hot. I also had a driver issue with Vulkan, so maybe that contributed to the slowness.

I verified that I would be unsatisfied with the faster processor running on limited thermal budget and single channel RAM. The price was about €600. Now I have to sell it to recoup part of the cost of the test.

The grass on the other side is not that much greener.

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