With stock and at MSRP prices? Colour me surprised.

Anyway, guys, I need your wise advise... but I'll settle with just some kind of advise. My father's PC is slow as fuck and he's tired of it, so "we" are going to get a new one. He sets a budged and I do the rest. So far, the prebuild PCs I've seen are rubish or incomplete (like not including a Windows license), so I'll get the needed parts: CPU, mobo, RAM and an SSD to make it even more responsive.

His current PC has an FX 6300 (yeah, it has some years in it) and while almost anyhting will be faster than it, I don't really want to settle for something with only 4 cores/4 threads or less.

With that in mind, it turns out that the best option I've seen is the i5 11400. Trust me, I wasn't expecting that, but with 6-cores/12-threads, it fits the bill and it's not stupidly expensive, plus H410 motherboards are cheap and the DDR4 2666HMz RAM that it supports is also more affordable.

By the way, AMD is not an option, sadly. Their CPUs either don't have an iGPU, and there's no way to add a GPU within the budget (plus it would be a waste of money), or the ones that have one are either 4-cores/4-threads (2200G/3200G) that are slower than the Intel processor, or are quite more expensive than it while not being better. And by "quite more" I mean that I could almost buy a cheap H410 motherboard with the difference.

So, what do you think? Any suggestions?

April Fools loll

If there's one thing that Rocket Lake nailed, it's their i5. The value in incredible. AMD is technically coming out with some APUs that do have iGPUs but who knows when and if you can even get them. And RAM frequency is also not as important for Intel as it is for AMD. So I'd say you are making a pretty good choice based on your dad's needs.

April Fools loll

If there's one thing that Rocket Lake nailed, it's their i5. The value in incredible. AMD is technically coming out with some APUs that do have iGPUs but who knows when and if you can even get them. And RAM frequency is also not as important for Intel as it is for AMD. So I'd say you are making a pretty good choice based on your dad's needs.

Effectively. JEMC, you're Spanish right? I've arranged the basics through PC Componentes. You should try to get the license separatedly from a place like CD Keys and just download the software from MSFT directly. Just put the parts together yourself and install the OS and it should be a done deal. 

https://www.pccomponentes.com/configurador/B4D13fFd1

Effectively. JEMC, you're Spanish right? I've arranged the basics through PC Componentes. You should try to get the license separatedly from a place like CD Keys and just download the software from MSFT directly. Just put the parts together yourself and install the OS and it should be a done deal. 

https://www.pccomponentes.com/configurador/B4D13fFd1

Than you, I appreciate it. I've used PCComponentes many times and it's one of the places I'll check when I get the parts I need (I'll keep the case and PSU from the current build).

Sadly, as Yuri says, the F parts don't have an iGPU, so this isn't the part I'd get.

With stock and at MSRP prices? Colour me surprised.

Anyway, guys, I need your wise advise... but I'll settle with just some kind of advise. My father's PC is slow as fuck and he's tired of it, so "we" are going to get a new one. He sets a budged and I do the rest. So far, the prebuild PCs I've seen are rubish or incomplete (like not including a Windows license), so I'll get the needed parts: CPU, mobo, RAM and an SSD to make it even more responsive.

His current PC has an FX 6300 (yeah, it has some years in it) and while almost anyhting will be faster than it, I don't really want to settle for something with only 4 cores/4 threads or less.

With that in mind, it turns out that the best option I've seen is the i5 11400. Trust me, I wasn't expecting that, but with 6-cores/12-threads, it fits the bill and it's not stupidly expensive, plus H410 motherboards are cheap and the DDR4 2666HMz RAM that it supports is also more affordable.

By the way, AMD is not an option, sadly. Their CPUs either don't have an iGPU, and there's no way to add a GPU within the budget (plus it would be a waste of money), or the ones that have one are either 4-cores/4-threads (2200G/3200G) that are slower than the Intel processor, or are quite more expensive than it while not being better. And by "quite more" I mean that I could almost buy a cheap H410 motherboard with the difference.

So, what do you think? Any suggestions?

If true, it'll probably be a timed exclusive. I don't really mind what platform it ends up on so long as it helps Remedy push the game out but yeah some might not like that it will be an EGS exclusive, at least on launch. They've (Remedy) have been jumping from one publisher to the next with some success (Control), though I've been mostly been wanting a AW sequel. Since they left that at such a cliffhanger.

Now they've got back the rights to the AW IP, I'm hoping they'll continue that since its one of their strongest franchise, next to Max Payne (RIP from TakeTwo).

Sorry, I've been a little rusty when it comes to Intel and integrated graphics. Why not just throw in the cheapest GPU you can get. Still too expensive? How much do you have in budget? 

Last Intel Graphics computer I had was a laptop and it's around six years old at this point, so sorry if I'm a bit lost in this regard. 

How convenient... We sure GN doesn't go on vgc right? loll