CPU or GPU

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Hey guys, im going to build a $2000 video editing build in the next few months. I use After Effects cs6 and premiere cs6, photoshop, C4D, Audition, and Nuke. I cant decide for this pricepoint whether my build should be leaning towards CPU heavy or GPU heavy, like which should i spend the most money on? After Effects uses CPU's a little more heavily, but graphics cards help in the rendering.

So, Intel® Core™ i7-4960X Extreme Edition Six-Core 3.60 GHz
&
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 4GB GDDR5


OR...
Intel i7 4770k with EVGA gtx 780???

 
For a video editing build I would suggestion the i7 4770k and AMD FirePro V5900. The V5900 is a professional rendering card much better suited for editing/rendering/etc. If you have a larger budget, I'd suggest getting the Quadro 4000 graphics card.
 


out of curiousity, why would you recommend a 4770k over the 4930k? also, i probably will end up with a quadro 4000, bc i need cuda