Not that it mattered - given the realities of the chip shortages, we rarely saw those chips at retail anyway. Rather, they came as refreshed 10th-Gen models with a paltry 100 MHz clock speed increase. Intel refreshed its Comet Lake Core i3 lineup when it released its 11th-Gen Rocket Lake chips in 2020, but those models didn't come with a new architecture or any meaningful performance improvements. In fact, with no clear current-gen competitor from AMD and stellar performance for its price point, the Core i3-12100 easily leads our CPU benchmark hierarchy in the $105 to $130 bracket. That's not to mention that the chip also comes as a $104 F-series Core i3-12100F that Intel ships with deactivated integrated graphics for $25 less than the full-featured model. System Monitor II is Windows 10 Sidebar Gadget To Display System Health In Real Time.įinally came across a programme called 'Gadgets Revived', which after installing has allowed me to load the CPU usage monitor (.gadget extension) into Windows 10.Intel's four-core eight-thread Core i3-12100 comes with an incredibly competitive $129 price tag that earns a spot on our list of best CPUs for gaming and Best Cheap CPUs as Intel finally addresses what has become the most ignored part of the PC market - the sub-$200 segment. I am just going round and round in circles.

AFAIK, it's not possible to install this in Windows 10, even though it says on the webpage the app is for Win10. This looks good, for instance, but when you extract the file it is another with. This is so frustrating now and I am wasting so much time searching online. If anyone can see a way to get that one CPU/RAM monitor (as above) into Win10, I'd be really happy! (Seems too that on Windows 10 updates, the whole lot will be removed as incompatible and you have to reinstate them). I really don't need or want the vast majority of them on my (gaming) PC. The 8Gadget pack seems to include what I want, but sadly when you run the msi there is no option to select which gadgets you want: there are dozens and dozens of them, and they all install together.

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