Such a good bang for your buck. I built a super slim mini ITX build in a Silverstone Raven small form factor case. It is about the size of the old Dell desktops my company used to use. The case is a lot less bulky than typical PC builds, but for a minimal build with this processor it was perfect. According to benchmarks on UserBenchmark this processor performs nearly exactly the same as my laptop processor. My laptop processor is a quad core i7-6700hq. This dual core processor performs just as well as my laptop quad core. I put in a GTX 1050 TI graphics card which also near exactly matches the performance of my laptop's GTX 970m. With this processor I build a desktop that can do everything my laptop can do, but for a third of the cost. Pretty awesome low end processor!
One thing I forgot to mention is that it comes with its own stock fan/heatsink. Had I known this I wouldn't have bought the $40 noctua low profile fan. Since you can't overclock this processor you really don't need a better cooler than the stock one. I bought an i7-6700K last year and that didn't come with a fan or heatsink, so I didn't think this one would. If you have an i5 or i7 processor I'd buy an aftermarket cooler. For an i3 like this one just use the stock. You really aren't going to see any performance benefits.
| Processor | 3.9 GHz core_i3 |
|---|---|
| RAM | 3 GB |
| Memory Speed | 3900 |
| Wireless Type | 802.11a |
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 2 |
