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X4 845 or i5 3470 for gaming

What games will you be taxing the system? It's thread like these that make me want to question what the rest of your specs are in that build you're looking at. So, please list your specs 😉

Also moving this from laptop's section to system's.
 


8GB RAM and RX560 4GB
Just Cause 4 , Assassins Creed Odyssey ,Pes 19
Games with similar specs like the ones I mentioned above

 
I wouldn't touch anything AMD pre-Ryzen with a 10' pole. They need a 1-1.5GHz clock advantage to win game benchmarks over SB/IB i5/i7.
 
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Thank you, I will go for i5 3470 if thats the case