— Originally upgraded my old am3+ based motherboard years back when 9th gen was newest and paired it with an i3-9100f. I have been through a few cpus since but his one is the best one ive had yet, its much cheaper used than the 9th gen i7 and has performace similar to even alot newer I5 processors. I picked mine up used for 65 quid here in England and for that price you will struggle to get anything close in performance. If your still on lga1151 and need an upgrade get this and you will be fine for atleast another 3 years. You could even pair it with a gpu like a 3070ti and still have no real bottlenecking .

— Have this with a 1050 4gb laptop. Works really well and boosts well when plugged it giving a really balanced matchup of components. I game on my laptop when not at home and have played Fortnite with over 120fps Cyberpunk at 40-50 and Horizon Zero dawn at 60fps.

— Its the ultimate 1080p GPU for a reason. Whilst it doesn't have any RTX capabilities that you get by paying just about $50 more for something like a 2060 it offers more than enough fps on any esports title and allows you to max out even the newest AAA games with playable framerates at 1080p. In addition the GDDR6 memory means that it has the fastest memory around, an advantage to a getting a more newish card instead of a card like a 980ti or a 1070.