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apart from the 10400f is there a ryzen around the same price that is better than the intel ?
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10400f or go for a ryzen for gaming ?
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Nope the 10400f 6 core for £130 is great price performance but you should also consider motherboard and memory for total cost comparison.
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how about the 10100f i can see that for £75 ?
4 core 8 threads.
4 core 8 threads.
Soldato
Nope.
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If money is tight then ok but a 6 core cpu should be the choice.
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ok so the 10400f then the cheapest motherboard will be fine ?
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Yes the cheapest would do but take a look at the motherboard spec, the very cheapest only have 2 memory slots so you need to think ahead.
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thank you
Soldato
To be honest, there are too many variables and considerations to make when looking at current Intel CPUs and recent shenanigans. Yes, the 10400F is a great little chip for the money, but motherboards that are within a sensible price range for a budget chip have too many concessions on them: they're unlikely to have decent VRMs to support the bigger CPUs, they won't have overclocking ability (not that you'd want to overclock with weak VRMs anyway) and the memory speeds will be locked so you leave a lot of performance unused. Plus, you're unlikely to get a BIOS update to support Rocket Lake CPUs so no PCIe Gen 4, even if the board is capable of supporting it.
So essentially if you go for the 10400F you're building a system that can't realistically be upgraded. You don't get those limitations with Ryzen, although the outright Intel-beating CPUs are a chunk more expensive.
Frankly though, the whole "Intel is better at gaming than AMD" thing is largely overblown. Benchmarks may show superior frame rates with Intel vs Ryzen 3000, but in pretty much all cases if both CPUs are pushing 90+ FPS, what's the issue?
If you don't plan on actually upgrading then go for the 10400F, and if you can get a cheap Z490 board then do so because you can get your memory clocked to a proper level. You might even get lucky and give yourself an upgrade option on the CPU. Otherwise I'd be inclined to get a decent B550 board with a 3600X. That gives you PCIe Gen 4 right away and the ability to upgrade as far as a 5950X in the future.
So essentially if you go for the 10400F you're building a system that can't realistically be upgraded. You don't get those limitations with Ryzen, although the outright Intel-beating CPUs are a chunk more expensive.
Frankly though, the whole "Intel is better at gaming than AMD" thing is largely overblown. Benchmarks may show superior frame rates with Intel vs Ryzen 3000, but in pretty much all cases if both CPUs are pushing 90+ FPS, what's the issue?
If you don't plan on actually upgrading then go for the 10400F, and if you can get a cheap Z490 board then do so because you can get your memory clocked to a proper level. You might even get lucky and give yourself an upgrade option on the CPU. Otherwise I'd be inclined to get a decent B550 board with a 3600X. That gives you PCIe Gen 4 right away and the ability to upgrade as far as a 5950X in the future.
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All depends on your resolution. Higher the resolution, the more the CPU becomes irrelevant