Is and I5 3470 worth buying for cheap over something modern?

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In general, "No", going cheap is never a good idea. Every situation is different. If you can only afford to spend X$, then you do the best you can. Often you end up spending X now for a cheap solution and in a short time, you spend X++ to upgrade where having spent X+ the first would have cost you less +. If that makes sense.

In general, buy the best you can afford. It usually saves you in the long term.
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Terence McCormick

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I'm planning on selling my current PC entirely, or selling my current CPU/RAM/Mobo and GPU then getting the I5 and a new GPU and Mobo

 
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boosted1g

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Then no.

The cost of finding a 6 year old, 4 generation old motherboard and ram is going to be harder and could even cost MORE than new parts.

This is a great budget gaming build for around $180 USD:
Pentium G4560 (it is bassically an i3 due to having hyperthreading)
B250 Motherbaord
8gb DDR4 ram
 
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boosted1g

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No.

The Pentium g4560 at $60 is just too good of bang-for-buck that it makes any i3 not worth it.
There is no i3 that offers a significant improvement in performance to be worth paying $40-60 more.
After the G4560 the next worthwhile CPU is straight up to an i5.
 
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In general, "No", going cheap is never a good idea. Every situation is different. If you can only afford to spend X$, then you do the best you can. Often you end up spending X now for a cheap solution and in a short time, you spend X++ to upgrade where having spent X+ the first would have cost you less +. If that makes sense.

In general, buy the best you can afford. It usually saves you in the long term.
 
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boosted1g

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I like to explain that concept like this:
You can spend $500 now and $400 latter to end up with a $700 computer, or you can just save up until you can buy the $700 computer.
 
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