6800k upgrade to what?

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I have:

a6800k clocked@5.0ghz
Asus fm2+board
corsair vengeance lp 1866 16gb (8x2)
corsair 850wpsu
h100i cooler
dual asus r9270x in crossfire
Samsung 256ssd
win8.1
corsair air540 case. 3 case fans/2fans on h100i

I play mainly eso currently, some dos emulation for commander keen and heretic/doom etc, and will be playing shadow of mordor. possibly bf4 and other high demand titles. (mainly play fps on xb360/xb1) unfortunately I am unsatisfied with the performance of my system playing pvp in eso (drops as low as 5-10fps). I am hoping that upgrading my cpu and board I will net some serious gains. I am planning to upgrade to r9290x soonish, and crossfire a second fairly soon after (or current equivalent when I can afford to do so. so for now I need a cpu and board that will do well for the demands of eso and that will down the road do well with dual crossfire/sli decent gpu's or massive single gpu. I don't want to have to upgrade cpu for atleast a year or so. any suggestions for video card/s for my later purchase would be awesome as well. I want 3vram+ etc 5-600usd range.

Can I get some input on a solid cpu/board combo under 600usd that will handle the above?
fwiw I will be purchasing at frys.
 
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That is among the best FM2+ motherboard that you can have for overclocking, so that's good. Perhaps, with your watercooling, not enough airflow is getting to the VRM heatsink, causing it to overheat and throttle your overclock.

Try AIDA64, and monitor the frequencies while doing a stresstest. If the CPU frequency goes down after a bit, or keeps fluctuating, while you are doing your stress test, that is probably the issue. A simple fix should be somehow directing airflow over, or at, the VRM. If that doesn't do the trick, you may have to downclock. :(
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Probably leaning towards 4790k, what's a decent Mb that will allow oc if I choose, good for crossfire, and puts me right around 500usd. Possibly Asus or msi?
 
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If I were you, get the R9 290X (or a new GTX 970/980) BEFORE you upgrade the cpu and motherboard. See if that nets you some performance upgrade that would allow you to hold out a little while longer on your current setup. Your already at 5ghz on an OK cpu. If you could wait till next gen Intel or AMD, your price/performance gains would be better.
 
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That is among the best FM2+ motherboard that you can have for overclocking, so that's good. Perhaps, with your watercooling, not enough airflow is getting to the VRM heatsink, causing it to overheat and throttle your overclock.

Try AIDA64, and monitor the frequencies while doing a stresstest. If the CPU frequency goes down after a bit, or keeps fluctuating, while you are doing your stress test, that is probably the issue. A simple fix should be somehow directing airflow over, or at, the VRM. If that doesn't do the trick, you may have to downclock. :(
 
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Try gaming for a bit now. The performance and FPS should be a lot more consistent, if you've completely eliminated the VRM-throttling issue.

Your rig will be good for gaming for still a couple more years. You should be able to play newer, intensive titles, like BF4 and Metro 2033: Last Light (for examples) on at least high settings, without much issue.

If you've eliminated all the problems, but you still crave more performance, then you'll have to switch platforms. The newest generation of FM2+ processors (Kaveri) doesn't offer a performance increase over Richland, thanks to lower clocks. I don't think the upgrade, at this point in time, will be completely worth it, but the money and choice is yours.
 
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I'm thinking I'm going to change platforms now and upgrade video cards later. Should I 4790k and cheaper motherboard (asus z97-ar) or 4690k and better board (gig soc force)?
Open to other cpu, s as well
Will probably continue to run crossfire even when I upgrade gpu (mainly upgrade later for vram) would like to keep mb/cpu good for a year or so
 
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I got my cpu stable at 5.0ghz and 1.51v. Temps are staying low on aida64 and I have no drop in power. I'm seeing 25fps in large pvp now on medium high settings. Awesome cause I was hitting 5 fps on lowest before. Thanks a lot for the help! I think IL keep this for a while
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