[SOLVED] Prebuilt Comparison

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I'm helping my friend look at some prebuilt PCs, and these two are what we ended up with. For option 1, our question is that, if in the future, he wants to upgrade to a better cpu / gpu, would the B460M be a good motherboard to have?
For option 2, would there be any sort of bottleneck with the setup, since the cpu gpu has quite a gap in performance? Overall, what would be the best choice here? They are at a very similar price range so that wouldn't be a problem to consider.

Option 1:
Motherboard: B460M Bomber
Cpu: i7-10700F
Gpu: RTX 3060TI
Ram: 16G (8GBx2) DDR4-3200
Psu: 550W bronze

Option 2:
Motherboard: Z490 Aorus Elite
Cpu: i9-10900F
Gpu: GTX 1660s
Ram: 16G (8GBx2) DDR4-3200
Psu: 650W bronze
 
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Here is my view of this:
Option 1:
10700F is a 8 core 16 thread cpu which can do it all,for a normal user.
Its more than enough for gaming/streaming/editing/some workstation work,it can do basically anything.
The motherboard is meh,but i dont see him upgrading his cpu for the next 3-4 years minimum.
3060Ti is the perfect 1080p and even 1440p gaming card in most of the games.It can game any game at ultra settings/RTX on/basically all eye candy on at 1080p and still get more than 60fps.
The ram is normal,2x8gb 3200mhz seems to be a standard these days.
More info on that 550W is needed
Option 2:
Same gaming performance to the i7 10700F,i would only get the i9 if he needs those extra 2 cores and 4 threads for some workstation use.
The...
Here is my view of this:
Option 1:
10700F is a 8 core 16 thread cpu which can do it all,for a normal user.
Its more than enough for gaming/streaming/editing/some workstation work,it can do basically anything.
The motherboard is meh,but i dont see him upgrading his cpu for the next 3-4 years minimum.
3060Ti is the perfect 1080p and even 1440p gaming card in most of the games.It can game any game at ultra settings/RTX on/basically all eye candy on at 1080p and still get more than 60fps.
The ram is normal,2x8gb 3200mhz seems to be a standard these days.
More info on that 550W is needed
Option 2:
Same gaming performance to the i7 10700F,i would only get the i9 if he needs those extra 2 cores and 4 threads for some workstation use.
The motherboard is pretty much highest end there is,shame that the i9 cant be overclocked on it since its the F version,not K or KF.
1660S should deliver 60fps or more on ultra settings in any game,but it lacks RTX,but that isnt a problem to some people.
Same ram as mentioned above.
More info on the psu needed.
I would go for the option 1.
The option 1 seems to be meant for everything,mainly gaming/streaming but it can serve as a workstation.
The option 2 is more on the workstation use first,gaming 2nd imo.
Note that neither i7 10700F and i9 10900F have integrated graphics.
Also cpu cooler,storage and case are missing in both builds,which are kind of important,especially if you want to do more workstation stuff.
 
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