Intel recently released their 8th generation of their Core CPUs with the codename “Coffee Lake”. The big new thing is that they have taken a step up with the cores, i5 and i7 now have 6 cores and i3 have 4 cores.

Today we are going to take a look at the two CPUs we found the most interesting, the Core i3 8100 and i5 8400. Why these two CPUs you might ask?

Well we here at Minimalistic PC have a passion for small builds that does not draw much power while still performing. The lower range of the i3 and i5’s can sometimes be overlooked, so today we are going to see how they perform both in games and regular tasks. We paired them up with a graphics card we also think is very interesting, Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1050ti, which does not need a seperate power-cable, so it only uses the power from the PCIe lane.

Lets see how it performs!