Review-Intel Core i3 2100 Processor: A Sandy Bridge for All

Excel 2010 – Montecarlo

Surely you are well familiar with this popular spreadsheet application from Microsoft. Here, we see how fast each processor could finish the “Monte Carlo Simulation Table” in Excel 2010. The final scores are measured in seconds. Smaller figures indicate better results.

Montecarlo algorithm is another area where the Core i3 2100 outperforms the similarly-priced Core i3 540.

7-Zip

7-Zip reveals that each of the Core i3 2100’s two cores is faster than the Core i3 540’s.

FastStone Photo Resizer

FastStone PhotoResizer is an image converter/ resize software capable of applying image manipulations such as resizing, cropping, rotating, and others on multiple files through batch operation. For the purpose of this test, we convert a collection of TIFF images (66 files; 527 MB total size) to JPEG format (quality level: 90). Each of the pictures is also resized to 600 pixels on the longest side. The entire process only utilizes one processor core (thread). Therefore, processors with high clockspeeds would have a slight advantage over slower CPUs. Results are measured in the amount of time needed to finish the resizing and converting process. Lower scores are better.

The Core i3 2100 managed to finish our image conversion faster than the COre i3 540, but not by much.