What is the best bang for buck desktop CPU

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What is the best bang for buck desktop cpu available at the moment.

AMD or Intel are both OK. Although slight bias to AMD since i prefer their motherboards.

It's for an all round machine, i do a bit of everything, from gaming to web development.

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