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Alright. So questions like this have been asked thousands if not millions of times all overt the internet. But I'm still stumped among the choices. I have my whole build planned out as follows.

GPU: AMD R9 390X

Ram: 12GB of Kingston HyperX Fury 1866MHz

Monitor: Dell Ultra 4K Monitor

But I can't decide the CPU. I have looked all over but all in getting is benchmarks and marginal or circumstantial differences.

Here is what I'll be doing with my computer.
I will produce music with a daw so I need it to handle a few Mic, instruments, and midi controllers lines through a usb audio interface as well as several vst's running - all at the same time.
I also will be very heavily editing and rendering 4k video through Adobe premiere and many of its plug-in applications.
Lastly I will game heavily with most or all settings on ultra at above 60fps minimum. (Graphically intense titles like GTA V, Saints Row IV, Rust, Tomb Raider, Watch Dogs etc)

Well first off I will be running a 4k monitor so that's that, but I will not run games at 4k so I will run games 1080 or 1440. However will be editing and rendering my videos at full 4k resolution.

At first I was going to go with an FX 8350 because music and video editing/rendering would utilize the extra cores. But then I thought how much better it would actually be than an i7 because the cores are weaker and 2 cores share the same module.
I weighed my options with the 4790k and it seems like a great competitor and does better in gaming than the 8350, but would it be better or worse in editing/rendering than the 8350 in real world usage.
I then considered a Xeon because they are server grade and will take a hell of a beating at 100% usage for minutes or hours on end, which editing music and rendering movies does that to your CPU.
Also the Xeon E3 1276 v3 matches the 4790k almost perfectly in gaming benchmarks, but I wondered how would the two compare in video rendering?

I realize the AMD and i7 both have great overclocking headroom where the Xeon does not, but does the reliability of the Xeon totally make up for that?

So now I'm torn between the Fx 8350, i7 4790k, and the Xeon E3 1276 V3.

Price is no concern at all. I'm looking for the most reliable and the fastest performance for the things I will be doing. What do you guys all think, and could you address those several questions throughout my college essay of a post?
 
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For the kind of stress your planning on putting on your system for long stretches of time I would opt for the Xeons over the i7. Overclocking in your case shouldn't matter that much as overclocking the i7...
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The i7 is miles ahed of the 8350. So if you can get an i7, do it. It's the best for video editing, heavy applications and gaming.
The Xeon's are in first hand meant for server systems, so they need to be able to work hard 24/7. They're specially produced just for that.
I would favor the i7 in rendering as well because of the better multi-threaded performance.
But you should cross over the AMD, it's not even near the same leauges as the Intels.
 
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Yeah but that's why it appealed to me. With the things I'm doing, I will put quite a big stress on my cpu for long periods of time, and the Xeons are meant to handle that kind of use. I also didn't mention that I tend to multitask heavily all the time. You could find me with a large Blender project open while running 52 chrome tabs and photoshop in the background. No exaggeration.
 
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The 980 runs hand in hand with the 390(x) and The Mantle implementations appeal much more to me than the extra money I would spend on a 980. Also the 390x has 8GB of ram which is pretty much an essential for 1440p and 2160p gaming, where the 980 does not.
 
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For the kind of stress your planning on putting on your system for long stretches of time I would opt for the Xeons over the i7. Overclocking in your case shouldn't matter that much as overclocking the i7 is only going to put more heat and strain on it. The i7 is a great processor, but the Xeons were developed to be beat on non-stop where the i7 really wasn't and overclocking it is going to put even greater strain on it. Most benchmarks are going to put the Xeons pretty much even with the i7 @ stock and for gaming there isn't anything the Xeons isn't going to be able to max out.
 
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This is what I was thinking. Overclocking a CPU is not something that appeals to me because of the stress it puts on the system and the extra power consumption of an already hungry computer.

What Xeon model would you suggest for my kind of work? I stated in the original post that the Xoen E3 1276 v3 runs very similarly to the 4770k in gaming benchmarks. How much of a difference is there from the 1276 and the 1230/1231 considering the $100 price difference

Edit: I did more research on the xeons and it looks like the 1276 isnt even compatible with most consumer motherboards and I found a motherboard that fits my color scheme and also supports the 1230 v3, which arent really that much worse than a 1276.
 
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Sounds like your all set:D I think for the work loads your planning on doing on a daily basis your going to be much happier in the long run with the Xeons.
 
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