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Bofferbrauer2 said:

JEMC said:

Just to be clear, AMD has been around here since the 70s. They've also been here for a long time. And, due to their position behind Intel, they've used to be cheaper than them, until their latest processors (but well, they're better than Intel's so...).

In any case, if you prefer an Intel processor, and assuming that you won't overclock it, my choice would be an i5-10600 (also 6 cores and 12 threads and similar in price) or an i7-10700 (8 cores and 16 threads).

Considering his budget limit of less than 1000€, I'd possibly even suggest the i5 10400, otherwise there's not much wiggle room for a GPU anymore. But by that point, the Ryzen 5 3600 would be clearly preferable.

Another possibility would be to wait for Rocket Lake. The names are out (and even kept the i9 around - though it's just higher locked i7 here...), the prices are just missing so far. And while Rocket lake looks to be a big improvement in IPC, the question is at what cost? The benchmarks so far are damning: The i9 ES is on par with the 10th Gen i7 in single-thread and multi-thread. Though it achieves that at a lower clock speed, it's not clear if the multi-threaded performance will be much higher due to the low clockability of the ice lake cores. Still, it's an option and it comes with a more modern platform, so it would not get outdated as fast as the skylake derived CPUs will.

Well, over here in Spain the 3600 has a price of between 220 and 260 € depending of the model (regular, X or XT), the 10600 hovers around 230 € and the 10700 around 320 €.

Maybe the 10700 pushes it, but I think that all of them still leave room for a good enough GPU and the rest of the components.