Spicalicious 129 Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 Niece need new motherboard and cpu. Motherboard: https://www.amazon.ca/Prime-Z390-Motherboard-LGA1151-Gigabit/dp/B07HCY7K9L CPU will either be i5 or i7 https://www.amazon.ca/Intel-BX80684I59600K-Boxed-i5-9600K-Processor/dp/B07HHLX1R8 or https://www.amazon.ca/Intel-BX80684I79700K-Boxed-i7-9700K-Processor/dp/B07HHN6KBZ Suggestions? She does light gaming like LoL and crap. Is i5 suffient. she will be playing games at 1440p with a gtx1070 Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 129 Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 @Remij Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 129 Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 or maybe AMD. screw it those are on sale and will go with that. Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 129 Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 Just got the i5.. Thanks for your help! Link to post Share on other sites
Remij 4,823 Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 LOL.. the i5 will be fine for light gaming. Link to post Share on other sites
kaz 2,447 Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 get a xbox Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 129 Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 1 minute ago, Remij said: LOL.. the i5 will be fine for light gaming. yeah we don't want to spend much.. I got her an i7 before but she was doing more cpu heavy tasks. She just uses the pc now for light gaming. Thanks. Link to post Share on other sites
Spicalicious 129 Posted October 1, 2020 Author Share Posted October 1, 2020 (edited) You can tell I don't stay on top of hardware anymore. I just buy an xbox and be done with it. Edited October 1, 2020 by Spicalicious 1 Link to post Share on other sites
ChupacabraIII 135 Posted October 1, 2020 Share Posted October 1, 2020 i got an i5 9600k when i built my recent PC but kind of wish I had gone with AMD now. Something similar in price like the Ryzen 5 3600x or something Link to post Share on other sites
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