Core i7 or Xeon for gaming/editing?

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Which one would be better if I do casual gaming and video editing? Because my FX6300 is hitting the 70-90% usage just by scrubbing the timeline while editing, causing my mouse cursor to freeze for 3 seconds.

I heard the i7 is just a Xeon with integrated graphics and a higher clock speed. I will be buying a H110i 280mm water cooler so that should cool it down when overclocking.

So here's my question:
1. Which one would you recommend for budget? Include recommended motherboard if you can please.
2. Which one for performance? Handle editing and casual gaming. Using a EVGA GTX750 SuperClocked 2GB GPU so nothing will bottleneck.

I mean if what I just said is true, then the integrated graphics is useless and the clock speed can be overclocked on the Xeon. But I also saw from Benchmarks that after 6 cores, 8 cores and up actually decreases FPS in games.
 
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For multi-purposes, an i7 is better in my opinion. Xeons are better for editing because they tend to have more cores. i7's tend to be better for gaming because they have higher single-core performance and clock speeds. Xeons actually do not overclock very well at all, where as "K" series i7's tend to overclock very well. If you're water cooling and want to overclock, get a K-series i7.
 
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I'm getting the i7 4790k. For some reason, the 90k is about $80 CAD cheaper than the 70k. So I did a little research, and a cheap motherboard that looks like it has all the features I need like SLI, SATA 3 and overclocking is a MSI Z97 SLI KRAIT motherboard. Do you think this board is good or no? I heard some boards are good and some are bad with overclocking and MSI has something called OC Genie which looks like it's completely dedicated to overclocking.