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Taegan

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System A)
MB: Gigabyte GA-Z87P-D3
CPU: Intel Core i5-4670K 4-Core 3.4GHz
GPU: Gigabyte AMD Radeon R7 260X 1GB DDR5
8GB RAM
System B)
MB: Asus B85, PCIe/DDR3/SATA3/GLAN/7.1
CPU: LGA1150 Intel® Core™ i5-4440
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 280 3GB DDR5
8GB RAM
System C)
MB: AM3+ 970 2xPCIe/DDR3/SATA3/USB3.0/GLAN/SLI/CF/Raid/7.1
CPU: AM3+ AMD FX-6300 Black Edition 32nm
GPU: AMD Radeon R9 280X 3GB GDDR5
8GB RAM
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Primarily will be used for WoW WoD, newly released singleplayer games (medium graphics settings, high if possible). Which one of these is the best?
 
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System B. And don't worry about that "high". You'll get ultra settings for quite a long time if you don't use AA much.

The R9 280 will easily perform good at ultra settings with 40+fps for a year atleast.
 
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Definitely option B. C works out fine as well, but not expansive like where in you could add an additional 280/280X/7950/7970 in crossfire for performance boosts and multi monitor set-ups.

A you could crossfire as well, but with much less benefit. Or you could simply upgrade to a much better single gpu down the road, to benefit from that processors sick overclock.

The 4440 is still a good stock speed cpu though. Good option
 
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So let me get this straight, B is better then A/C, but A has a bit stronger CPU while B has a much stronger gpu? Would an i5 4670K work fine instead of 4440 in spec B, or is the gap between those 2 CPUs not that big?
 
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Not with the card you'd currently be using, but with future upgrades the unlocked 4670 would definitely be the better option. Also into the future it'll hold a lot more weight if you plan to utilize it's overclock potential well.
 
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