This CPU is great for gaming, especially if your doing a build for a child and you have a budget. you can get this cpu on deals on amazon for a great price! I have a GTX 1050 TI and it runs fairly good for me, and the cpu runs at only 15 percent usage while on chrome and discord! This CPU comes with 4 cores and 4 threads, which is good for a decent gaming build, the max frequency you can get on this CPU is 4ghz, stock is 3.6ghz, so you get plenty of ghz if your motherboard cant overclock. Overall, this CPU is great for people who are on a budget, and want the most performance out of their pc as possible in their budget range.