Those budget CPU's are quite frankly amazing. We just need to go back before the "I" generations. If you bought budget you had to settle with a celeron, which was as budget as they would come. Slow, inefficient, just plain bad. I recently built a small pc for a family member for everyday home office use. No gaming (besides the occasional game of solitaire) I already had a h110 mobo and 16 gigs of RAM (2* 8Gb HyperX DDR4-2133) lying around, and I'd upgraded the mobo bios to support Kaby Lakes, planning to use a 4560, but got a i3-6100 2nd hand for just 30 bucks. Along with a 240 Gb Samsung EVO 840 I also had lying around, it turned out to be a quite fast little desktop for everyday tasks. Booting windows, surfing in Chrome and those kind of tasks, I can hardly tell any speed difference between that and my own i7-6700. It doesn't consume much power, the computer is very quiet (a Noctua NH-U9S cpu cooler keeps it very cool). So for a budget cpu it really packs a punch compared to what budget CPUs could show just a few years ago.
