Intel i5-9400F with a B365M

[Fasade]

Hello I am building a pc for a friend and one of the options is an i5-9400F with a B365M motherboard, is this a plug and play or do I have to update bios with an 8th gen cpu ?

 

EDIT: Yeah I know about the better option of AMD the intel is just an option i considered.

[Princess Luna]

The B365 chipset supports 9th gen out of the box but it'll hardly be the better value alternative when facing a B450+R5 3600 combo.

[minibois]

B365 (M is just what some companies use to specific it's an MaTX board) is specifically made for 9th gen (and 8th gen) so will work out of the box with a 9400F. 

[5x5]

It's plug and play but the i5 is very poor value today. A Ryzen 5 2600 or 3600 with a B450 Tomahawk or Steel Legend is Much better. Equivalent gaming performance, faster in everything else. Uses less power, runs cooler and Zen doesn't suffer from the 6-7 severe security flaws in Intel cpus. 

[Epimetheus]

From what i know b365 is the refresh of the b360 made to support 9th gen natively. So it would work out of the box.

However i'd recommend getting a ryzen 5 2600 with a b450 motherboard instead

[Princess Luna]

1 minute ago, Epimetheus said:

From what i know b365 is the refresh of the b360 made to support 9th gen natively.

There's a bit more to it actually, the B365 chipset is based on Intel's older 22nm architecture while the older B360 uses 14nm.

 

The reason for this change is due to Intel's shortage on 14nm silicon as they are moving manufacturing to the newer 10nm nodes (even if it didn't go as planned lol), to make up for these shortages both the H310 and B365 chipsets are based on 22nm using older machinery that was still enable on their factories.

 

Since this changed happened by the time 9th gen was out it become the new "9th gen ready refresh" even if ironically runs off older technology.