AMD Athlon 5350 vs Intel Core i3-2120



i3 is locked so you cannot overclock it. The 5350 is a lost cause to start with.

The i3-2120 is a nice CPU and will be good paired with GTX 750 Ti otrGTX 950 or anything lower.
 

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That's not necessarily true. For a basic internet/email/light office machine, it's actually ok. Anything more strenuous than that though and it's not going to be pretty.

 
It's hard to find a comparison using discrete GPUs, but Tom's has some numbers comparing other aspects of these CPUs:

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As much as I'd like to recommend a chip made by the underdog, AMD's CPUs are just plain slower. Not only that, but you have no upgrade path, whereas with the i3, you can drop in an i5 or i7.