Some people may disagree, but there is no clear "Buy X, Avoid Y".I don't know what to buy honestly, especially with 11th gen release
Unstated use, unstated budget....there is no "best".Ik but trying to get the best option
With either option (AMD or Intel), you will need a CPU and compatible motherboard, at a minimum. In today's market, your budget will not go far. This assumes you already have the other components you would need for the rest of the rig (memory, storage, GPU, PSU, case, etc).Half gaming, half work. Max 200 bucks. Upto 250 bucks but try to get the best and cheapest option
Since you're choosing a CPU, that means you're also choosing the rest of the parts?Half gaming, half work. Max 200 bucks. Upto 250 bucks but try to get the best and cheapest option
AM4 has more upgrade options if you want to start with an overpriced Ryzen 3600 that performs worse than cheaper Intel chips and upgrade that to a Ryzen 5950X later on.What about future upgrades? (I5-11400 or i5 11500 is around 15 more expensive than 10th gen, which is no difference
Wait for prices on new parts to settle. The nearest equivalent part on AMD's side would be the 3600 and those are more expensive than the 11400 in NA.the i5-11400 is going mad in my country. selling for about 300 bucks. What about ryzen?
11th-gen (Rocket Lake which launched last month) can work on on many 400-series LGA1200 boards too and you need a 11th-gen CPU to use the CPU-powered NVMe x4 slot on those, always nice to have if you want to reduce the likelihood of the chipset's DMI link becoming a snigificant bottleneck in the future.Take advantage of the drop in price of the 10600KF. It's an extremely capable gaming CPU that will dominate in office applications as well. You don't really get an upgrade path since the next Intel CPU would be the 11 series which needs a new motherboard, but to be honest you don't need one. That CPU will last you 5 years at least.
A standard NVMe SSD is 3.0x4 and you can get one for $100 or so.NVMe x4 is pointless unless you spend $500+ on your NVMe drive so I don't think that's really important. Just good old NVMe x1 is still very, very fast indeed and faster than most people will need right now.
Look at the 4GB RX5500. Between 3.0x8 and 4.0x8 (because the RX5500 only has an x8 interface), it closes 70-80% of the gap with its 8GB counterpart. Last time I checked completed eBay listings, there was $300 price difference between 4GB and 8GB models due to how much more usable the 8GB models are for mining.Any board from the last 4 years is going to have PCI 4.0 x 16 so that's not really a worry, and actually even the 3090 doesn't quite make use of x8 yet so I think we good for now.