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Amzar Vladimir

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Hello,
I am from Romania and i want to build my first computer. I've chosen some components wich seem to be ok, but i want your help in order to get the best stuff for the money also.
I will be gaming a lot Battlefield Hardline, Battlefield 5 (when it will be released), DayZ and many other shooters, but also i will work in Photoshop and may be some 3D stuff.
Should i get the intel i7 4790k and r9 280x or the i5 4690k with the r9 290? Which combination will perform better?

Here is my build:
CPU: Intel i5 4690k
GPU: Sapphire Radeon R9 290 Toxic Tri-X
Mother Board: MSI Z97 GAMING 5
RAM: Corsair DDR3 8GB (2 x 4GB) 2133MHz CL9 Vengeance Pro
EVGA SuperNOVA NEX750B
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 1TB
CPU cooler: CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO
SSD: Samsung 840 evo 120gb
Case: Cougar Volant or something else
 
Solution


Good, GTX 770 is faster than R9 280x in majority of games.

For games, they generally have to be written in such a way to utilize the HyperThreading. With that said only some games see a boost from it, some see none. Even still games are more graphics dependant than CPU dependant (a good balance, but for now graphics card is more important than CPU).

For other tasks that are incredibly intensive on the CPU alone, then Hyperthreading on i7 starts to shine. This is generally video encoding/processing and rendering huge animations or scenes that are 3D in nature. Thats all calculations and the Graphics Card generally has little to do with that.

So basically you have to...
Probably GTX 780 would be better, as the Adobe Suite applications can take advantage of the CUDA cores to assist in rendering. Though on the other hand if the application can take advantage of GPGPU and OpenCL, then the R9 290 would be the better choice.