(This is just confirm)Which is best for gaming & Overclocking The 3930K Or Wait for IB-E 4930K Or The IB-E 4960X Or 4670K?

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I'm gonna be gaming at 2560x1600 Or 2560x1440.The only game i'm gonna be probably gaming at 1920x1080 is Metro last light.The GPU I'm gonna use is Dual SLI GTX 780.I'm gonna use a 2560x1600,2560x1440,30 Inch,Or a 21:9 Monitor.I'm gonna overclock maybe to 4.4Ghz.The Specs for the CPU is A CPU that can overclock as high as 4.4Ghz Or 4.3Ghz,A CPU that is future proof maybe 1 or 2 years or longer,And CPU that can handle BIG AAA Games Like The Battlefield Series,The Saints Row Series,The Crysis Series,And the Far Cry Series.Also if there is a better CPU can you tell me?
 
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I currently have the i7-3930k and it's overclocked to 4.5ghz. The monitor is a 30" HP at 2560x1600 and the current game is Crysis 3, previouly I was playing Call of Duty Black Opps 2.
The 3930k on the Asus Rampage IV Extreme board will easily overclock to 4.5ghz without much effort and will go much higher if you want to spend some time and make the necessary bios adjustments.

The Ivy Bridge-E will have a top CPU of the i7-4960x followed by the 4930k and the 4820k. The Haswell i5-4670k is out now and is a very good gaming CPU but as with all non-E processors will only have 16 lanes of Pci-e bandwith and two video cards will be x8, x8. The extreme processors have 40 lanes so you get the full x16, x16 for two cards and adding a third...
I currently have the i7-3930k and it's overclocked to 4.5ghz. The monitor is a 30" HP at 2560x1600 and the current game is Crysis 3, previouly I was playing Call of Duty Black Opps 2.
The 3930k on the Asus Rampage IV Extreme board will easily overclock to 4.5ghz without much effort and will go much higher if you want to spend some time and make the necessary bios adjustments.

The Ivy Bridge-E will have a top CPU of the i7-4960x followed by the 4930k and the 4820k. The Haswell i5-4670k is out now and is a very good gaming CPU but as with all non-E processors will only have 16 lanes of Pci-e bandwith and two video cards will be x8, x8. The extreme processors have 40 lanes so you get the full x16, x16 for two cards and adding a third card you get x16, x16, x8.

The 3930k has been out now for over a year and is a very capable processor , being an i7 it should be good for at the very least another year and quite possibly two with a video card upgrade being needed before a CPU upgrade.
The Ivy Bridge-E processors are due to be released in September and it's currently unknown what thier performance will be in games compared to Sandy Bridge-E but they are supposed to offer an increase in performance and we'll have to wait for someone to post some benchmarks on gaming and overclocking before we know what to expect.

If you go with the i5-4670k then you will have another CPU release in the same socket but it's not as powerful as the E processors , but it is a good gaming CPU .
There are no other contenders.
 
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