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Okay, I was on the verge of creating a wall of text but decided against it. Imagine I have a budget of 2,500 euros. I want the best PC that I could get out of that, I am looking at an EVGA Geforce GTX980 and some serious amount of RAM, for gaming and the CPU/RAM guzzling application, VUE. I want to know, should I go LGA 1150 or LGA 2011, I want to know, for processing stuff in Vue (CPU intensive renders) would a 4 core (4GHz) be less effective than something like a 6 core (3.4GHz).

I am aware that socket 2011 would balloon the costs due to a more expensive mobo and CPU. But I don't really mind.

Recommendations of a CPU for pretty much all uses would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
 
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PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i7-5820K 3.3GHz 6-Core Processor (£293.94 @ Aria PC)
CPU Cooler: be quiet! Dark Rock 3 113.8 CFM Fluid Dynamic Bearing CPU Cooler (£45.59 @ Aria PC)
Motherboard: ASRock X99 Extreme4 ATX LGA2011-3 Motherboard (£170.39 @ Scan.co.uk)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£180.20 @ Amazon UK)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws Series 16GB (4 x 4GB) DDR4-2400 Memory (£180.20 @ Amazon UK)
Storage: Samsung 850 EVO-Series 250GB 2.5" Solid State Drive (£99.49 @ CCL Computers)
Storage: Western Digital BLACK SERIES 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive (£55.98 @ CCL Computers)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card (2-Way SLI) (£269.87 @ Amazon UK)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 970 4GB Superclocked ACX 2.0 Video Card (2-Way SLI) (£269.87 @ Amazon UK)
Case: Fractal Design Define R4 w/Window (Black Pearl) ATX Mid Tower Case (£88.07 @ Aria PC)
Power Supply: Antec TruePower Classic 750W 80+ Gold Certified ATX Power Supply (£67.82 @ Dabs)
Optical Drive: Asus DRW-24F1ST DVD/CD Writer (£16.30 @ Amazon UK)
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 8.1 (OEM) (64-bit) (£72.35 @ Aria PC)
Total: £1810.07
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-02-04 18:13 GMT+0000

Something like this? May need tweaking, just an idea.
 
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You mentioned you wanted serious amounts of ram and heavy rendering. I've never personally used Vue so I'm going by your description of things and your budget. The x99 platform isn't quite as overclocking friendly as 1150, but it will overclock so you'd be able to raise the speed of the cores on the 5820k a bit higher. It's a 6 core cpu which if the programs you are using are multicore/multithread capable will be a huge boost compared to just a 4 core i7 (socket 1150) with ht. The 5820k also has hyperthreading, so you're not losing any benefit if there is one.

The 5820k is also different from the quad core i7's in that it has nearly double the on die cache, 15mb vs 8mb on the quad core i7's. It has more memory channels, 4 vs 2 of the 4790k. The effective memory bandwidth because of the quad channel memory becomes 68gb/s vs 25.6gb/s of the quad i7.

Should you need more ram, it will handle more than the 32gb supported by the quad i7.

The x99 also has more pcie lanes than the lga 1150 and would allow both cards to run at full speed. For purely gaming a single 980 would be faster although depending on how many monitors you're running and how much your programs depend on the gpu for rendering you'll probably get a slight performance boost using two 970's sli'd than a single 980 and the cost for 2 970's isn't much more than a single 980.

Socket 2011 is the old version, the latest (x99) is called 2011-v3 to distinguish it from the older 2011 and 2011-v2.
 
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Baically 2011-v1 is older. The current platforms are 2011-v3 (x99) and lga1150 (h97/z97). The difference being socket 1150 is pentium anniversary g3258, core i3's, core i5's and core i7's but is restricted to quad core cpu's. There isn't a 6 or 8 core i7 option for 1150 so if you want the additional cores it requires the 2011-v3 platform.
 
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