Please help me with CPU after a tragedy. i5 price ride by $50

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captain wajji

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So I went to a friend's shop here yesterday (I'm not from US).

Bought all the stuff for my new PC except processor as it was out of stock.

Ok so I went to the biggest dealer and asked for i5 8400. He also said it was out of stock and gave me an i3 8100.
He said he'll exchange deducting $5 and will give me i5 when it's here.

Today some dealer told me that i5 8400 price went up from $212 to $272, rising by $50.

Now what should I do???

Keep the i3 8100 or buy the overpriced i5? How much difference is there?

I'll mainly use this machine for gaming and I want faster multi tasking.

Also Adobe and light video editing as well.

Please help me out.
 
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ingtar33

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I'd say you should never call that person your friend again. there is no store in america where an i5-8400 should be sold for $272. you can currently get it from a number of retailers for <$220, I'm looking at amazon and newegg, both sell it for <$220. Next I want to know why you want an i5-8400 for $272 when you can get a i5-8600 for $229.00
 
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I would hold onto the 8100 for now and grab a 9th gen i5 when they release in October. It may only be the K series but the price may be better then the 8400 and would have a higher clock speed and if you have a Z370 motherboard then you'd be able to overclock it.

Anything above $200 for the 8400 is a ripoff, that CPU should be at $180.
 
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Normally I'd agree with you, but it's looking more and more likely that this "9th generation" release is going to be a paper launch in october, with chips maybe being availible in january. I don't think this is an option to a guy who got roped into buying an I3, when he wanted an i5
 
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Well that sucks, I have a G5400 as a placeholder for the 9600K which I was expecting to get around late Oct, early Nov. If the prices of the i5's are in the upper 270-280 area the OP might as well grab the 8700 as they'll have the extra threads for editing, or return the MB/8100 if possible and go R5 2600/B450.
 
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captain wajji

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I mentioned that I'm NOT from USA and we import stuff so the commission by dealers + duty and everything makes it expensive compared to the rest of the world. This $212 is the least price I was getting.
 
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captain wajji

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For us here, the price of 8400 will still be the same or maybe reduce by $20 only, that's it. The newly imported i5 let's say 9th gen will be in my opinion $300+ ...
 
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