Helping my friend and her brother with gaming rigs

[FireAbyss111802]

Hello, I am helping my friend and her brother with building computers. (they will have identical computers), and I am deciding whether the 10700k or the 11700k would be better for their workload, which will be gaming such as Fortnite, R6 Siege, etc. They do not have discrete cards yet, and I know that the 11700k has better onboard graphics, but I am not sure which processor will perform the best with a discrete card. Help is appreciated!

 

[Morgan MLGman]

Both of those i7s that you mentioned have integrated graphics and both of them are useless for gaming. If they're just gaming, they don't need a 11700K - 10700KF may be good value in your area, otherwise I'd go down to a Ryzen 5 5600X or an i5-11400F. Keep in mind that the three CPUs I've recommended do not have iGPUs, so they require a dedicated graphics card.

[FireAbyss111802]

14 minutes ago, Morgan MLGman said:

Both of those i7s that you mentioned have integrated graphics and both of them are useless for gaming. If they're just gaming, they don't need a 11700K - 10700KF may be good value in your area, otherwise I'd go down to a Ryzen 5 5600X or an i5-11400F. Keep in mind that the three CPUs I've recommended do not have iGPUs, so they require a dedicated graphics card.

Yeah, but they don't have a card yet, and they would still like to use their desktops for school, etc and maybe some light fortnite gaming (11700k can hit 90fps on 1080p low) before they get a graphics card, like a 3070 or a 3070 ti. 

[Morgan MLGman]

3 minutes ago, FireAbyss111802 said:

Yeah, but they don't have a card yet, and they would still like to use their desktops for school, etc and maybe some light fortnite gaming (11700k can hit 90fps on 1080p low) before they get a graphics card, like a 3070 or a 3070 ti. 

Yeah, that makes sense. In that case I'd recommend you look at the 10700K and save some money to get a better GPU - 11700K brings nothing in terms of CPU performance