Which CPU should I buy?

[UbieAnton]

Hello,

I'm going to buy a new pc and I was thinking which CPU I should buy. Even after a lot of research I didn't come up with an answer. Can someone help me choose a good CPU and explain why that one would be the best? If you could help me even more with other hardware, that would be awesome!

Thx!

First of all I will tell you what I'm planning to do:

Games I will play: (I want to play most games in high settings 1080p 60+ FPS for some years)
World of Warcraft (I will participate in a lot of raids)
Minecraft (I will play a lot of mods)
Guild Wars 2 (Also a lot of raids)
Wildstar (Raids!)
Diablo 3
Team fortess 2
Overwatch (When it comes out)
Blacklight: Retribution
Fallout 4
Witcher 3

Graphics driver I want to use: (could be changed if needed)
GTX 960
R9 380


Other stuff I will do:
Planning to record games with Fraps or OBS
Making 3D animations with Blender
Photoshop
Video editing like Cyberlink powerdirector
Streaming Twitch
Ventrilo, Skype while gaming

Max budget for CPU ( I Really mean the maximum budget!)
200 Euro

Maximum budget for whole pc:
730 +10 euro

 

[UbieAnton]

My idea was this for now:

Processor: FX 8320e
Graphics card: R9 380 4gb
Memory: 8gb
Hard disk: 1tb 7200rpm
Motherboard: ASRock 980DE3/U3S3
Power supply: 600 watt LC-Power LC600H-12cm
Case: Sharkoon VG4-W ATX
Wifi: 300mbit

 

[Gingerbread]

With your usage and max money I would go for 4460,still a beast for the money, with h97 motherboard, g2 evga 550w psu and a 4gb r9 380

 

[assassin445522]

an i5 4460 would be your best bet with the games you play if you play minecraft alot with alot of mods make sure to change the JVM arguments to use alot of ram for more fps, the gtx 960 and i5 4460 should run minecraft heavily modded (even modifying shader code to make parallax or better effects) very smooth, all those games you listed run better with an Intel CPU generally.

 

[DeathRabit]

Complete build for you CPU can be OC to around 4.5+Ghz * with decent CPU cooler 😉
PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i5-6400 2.7GHz Quad-Core Processor (€183.69 @ Mindfactory)
Motherboard: Asus Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Motherboard (€142.40 @ Mindfactory)
Memory: G.Skill NT Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (€50.78 @ Mindfactory)
Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (€52.89 @ Amazon Deutschland)
Video Card: Asus GeForce GTX 960 2GB Video Card (€191.97 @ Mindfactory)
Case: Antec NSK4100 ATX Mid Tower Case (€39.90 @ Caseking)
Power Supply: Antec High Current Gamer 520W 80+ Bronze Certified ATX Power Supply (€66.90 @ Caseking)
Total: €728.53
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-01-15 00:16 CET+0100

 

[ccqueen]

The i7-4790k is way out of the picture, so maybe a i5-4690k. This seems to be one of the best price/performance CPU out there. Great reviews and a lot of gamers use that chip.
If you really want a future proof chip then the 4790k would be better in terms of video editing, photoshop, etc. but it is $100 more.

I think the i5 would work well for you. No bottlenecking of any sort paired with the GTX 960 and will perform nicely.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117372
Extra savings w/ promo code EMCEFEM49, ends 1/14

 

[UbieAnton]

Could you please remove the "Pick as answer" thing, it was an accident... It looks too much as an reply button.

 

[DeathRabit]

I not recommend you old i5-4690k €240 because i5-6400 €183 can be OC to similar lever 4.5+ghz and will have from 10-15% more performance when clocked at this same level.
+ Z170 mobo have M.2 slot for fast SSD disk