Would you recommenf the 10400/10400F for people who afraid of tinkering the BIOS?

[Newblesse Obblige]

the 10400F is cheaper than the the 3600 in my country and I want to build a PC for my bro who just wants to play Games. He is not an enthusiast when comes to hardware so I think he doesnt care about it as long he plays his game smoothly on his preferred setting(it really depends on him as he has different setting on every game he plays). I told him he could overclock his RAM with this motherboard(referring to Z490) but he doesn't want to as he is lazy and scared to do anything in the BIOS(he got traumatized when first entered the BIOS and fortunately, I fixed it lmao).

 

Do you think it better to choose a 10400 over the 3600 in this case?

 

He plays COD Warzone(or Modern warfare), Valorant, GTA and Dota 2 and interested to play Watch Dogs 2,

[mbntr]

5 minutes ago, 5GigaaHertz said:

the 10400F is cheaper than the the 3600 in my country and I want to build a PC for my bro who just wants to play Games. He is not an enthusiast when comes to hardware so I think he doesnt care about it as long he plays his game smoothly on his preferred setting(it really depends on him as he has different setting on every game he plays). I told him he could overclock his RAM with this motherboard(referring to Z490) but he doesn't want to as he is lazy and scared to do anything in the BIOS(he got traumatized when first entered the BIOS and fortunately, I fixed it lmao).

 

Do you think it better to choose a 10400 over the 3600 in this case?

 

He plays COD Warzone(or Modern warfare), Valorant, GTA and Dota 2 and interested to play Watch Dogs 2,

Imma get some shit for this, but I think that's exactly what the 10400 is good for 

[19_blackie_73]

You could just run the 3600 right out of the box too ya know... As I have trouble with the xmp profiles and very random bsods, i put everything back exactly to stock and encountered no issues at all after that. Didn't notice a performance hit for my workload.

I'd say depends on the price what to get

[Mister Woof]

For people who don't like tinkering just get the 10400

 

Difference in games is not perceivable for people who aren't looking

 

Intel is easier to set up and if it's cheaper, go for it

[Haro]

In this case and since the 10400 is cheaper, you could techincally go with it, though what are they both priced at? 

But yea in this case going with a 10400 isn't bad it's just, i'd avoid B and H series boards since they do limit ram speeds which does affect performance. 

[Newblesse Obblige]

2 hours ago, TofuHaroto said:

i'd avoid B and H series boards since they do limit ram speeds which does affect performance. 

that is the problem. he doesn't like to overclock because he got PTSD when he got into the BIOS for the first time lmao.

he just want straight out of the box or plug and play performance. Plus he wont be upgrading it in the future as he might just buy or build(by me or by a store) a new PC instead

[Haro]

1 hour ago, 5GigaaHertz said:

he doesn't like to overclock because he got PTSD when he got into the BIOS for the first time lmao.

Well you don't need to overclock with a z series board, heck you wont be able to with a 10400 either way, it's just z490 doesn't limit ram speed like B and H series boards.

[Newblesse Obblige]

Just now, TofuHaroto said:

Well you don't need to overclock with a z series board, heck you wont be able to with a 10400 either way, it's just z390 doesn't limit ram speed like B and H series boards.

what? a z390 is compatible with the 10400?

[Haro]

1 hour ago, 5GigaaHertz said:

a z390 is compatible with the 10400?

ah dumb typo on my end, i meant z490 lol.