Motherboard and Processor Combination

There's really no such thing as future proof.

But yes they will work well together. It will last you a long time. If it's gaming don't skimp on the gpu.

Yes it's OC'able.
Any chance you could alter your build a little bit to bump up that gpu? In the long run that will be your weak point. It'll play most games on ultra without issues right now. But lets take bf3 for example.. On ultra at 1080p you'll get roughly 30 fps only. Refer to this link http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7870-review-benchmark,3148-6.html
So the gpu is holding you back.. Not the cpu.

combination is very good, but I'm don't think you can pair a 6870 with 7870.

Where was a 6870 mentioned?

*Edit* ahh I see what your seeing. His current build, I don't think he's going to try a crossfire config. I think he's looking to pair the cpu/mobo combo with the 7870

Ok that makes more sense then.
Only thing I might suggest then is to go with Haswell instead of Ivy bridge, It's a new socket (ivy's socket is a dead socket now) and will provide some updatability when Broadwell comes out.

Other then that you've made some good choices. I'd save for a better gpu down the road and try to get one of the new 7xx series or something similar.

go with the haswell, the LGA1155 socket will be dead in future as i don't think that intel would be introducing new 1155 socket processors, so as to be future proofed go with the haswell.

No such thing as being future proof.

@OP, If you have some impending need to future proof, the 8350 is the better option due to the next generation of consoles being nothing more than glorified PCs with an 8 core AMD CPU.

Console gaming is not even in the same ballpark as PC gaming. I would never recommend an AMD chip for a gaming machine unless they were on a budget build. No amd chip (out today, maybe in the future but doubtful) can hang with the current, or even the last 2 generations of Intel chips.

...You clearly didn't understand my post. You, also, either made false claims backed up by thin air OR are using a flawed, and therefore, inappropriate comparison.

The next generation of consoles will be using the same hardware that can be found in PCs, with some changed bits here and there. Considering how most games are developed for consoles and then ported to the PC, it's only natural to assume that the same will happen for the next generation of games.
The next generation of games will be forced to make use of the eight cores on offer due to the low clock rate of the processors being used (they're downclocked to around 1.8GHz per core), which heavily impacts on the performance of each core.
When you play a game that is designed around a higher number of cores/threads, and is not programmed to account for fewer cores/threads, performance is heavily impacted due to the process checking up on other threads 'n' all the other snazzle involved in multithreaded programming.
With that in mind, an eight core is much more of a safe bet than a four core at this point in time.

Now, onto your logically impaired claim on AMD CPUs.
What you need to understand, is that when you compare, for example, the £70 Phenom II x4 965 BE to the £165 Intel Sandybridge Core i5 2500k, the intel proccy is going to pull out ahead. Because the two processors cater to different price levels.

That being said, the difference is not as astronomical as people claim. Why is that? Because people almost always use synthetic benchmarks when saying one processor is better than another, due to the fact that real-world (I.E, gaming, rendering, etc.) results can have all sorts of factors impeding/boosting the result.
With that background information now available to you, I urge you to research on the subject of intel buying out various benchmarking programs in the effort to make AMD's processors worse in synthetic benchmarks and a small number of programs. I'll use psuedo code to demonstrate.

If AMD
Do 386
If Intel
if SSE4.1 = true
Do SSE4.1
elseif SSE4.0 = true
Do SSE4.0
[etc]

You can read up on the subject here.


@OP My apologies for derailing your thread, but I decided to not let ignorance slide by un-challenged.

Re reading your first post.

I see your logic in games being ported from console to pc. It's an interesting theory, I'd agree that if that's what happens an 8 core chip might be the better buy today. Althou I'm not certain it would be able to handle all of the games next gen that you'd like it too.

I'm done posting on here. I apologize I got tunnel vision, but the way your first statement was worded didn't make me care to read or think about what you were saying. It only pissed me off With that.. I'll say sorry and duck out. Latez.