This CPU is still a great option for gaming, it has 6 cores and 12 threads making it effective for multitasking, productivity, and gaming. It has a base clock frequency of 2.9GHz but this chip stays cool allowing it to boost to 4.3 GHz continuously. This 10400F performs well enough to make pairing it with most NVIDIA RTX cards or AMD RX cards bottleneck free. Does not come with motherboard