Question Pc build for a friend

jostegogar

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So my friend asked me to build a pc for him he already has a monitor a mouse and a keyboard.
Now on his budget i can afford a cheap motherboard with an i3 8100 and a RTX 2060 or i can go with a decent motherboard with an i5 8400 + a gtx 1660ti.
So i was wondering which option is better. Hes a pure gamer and hes not planning to multi task, editing videos or anything like that
 
Agree with tennis2's opinion. A 6-core/6-thread CPU is better than a 4-core/4-thread CPU with current games and should last a bit longer.

The RTX 2060 is the weakest of the RTX cards, which still has ray tracing as the main selling point. And even with increased optimisation ray tracing does lower fps. The GTX 1660 ti doesn't have the burden of having to deal with ray tracing, and a good gaming card.