Where to find the highest amount of cores at a reasonable price

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Artquest7

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I'm building a computer for work that will have to do lots of rendering. I'm looking to buy a CPU with as high of a number of cores as I can possibly afford, around $1000.

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This below build will do you fantastically for rendering purposes :)

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Xeon E3-1245 V5 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor ($283.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-X150-PLUS WS ATX LGA1151 Motherboard ($102.98 @ Newegg)
Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws V Series 32GB (2 x 16GB) DDR4-3200 Memory ($169.99 @ Newegg)
Storage: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive ($66.89 @ OutletPC)
Video Card: Sapphire Radeon RX 480 8GB Video Card ($269.99 @ B&H)
Case: Corsair 200R ATX Mid Tower Case ($44.99 @ Newegg)
Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA G2 650W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($106.99 @ Amazon)
Total: $1045.82
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-07-21 10:38 EDT-0400
 
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Artquest7

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Would you say that 8-core is the highest I'd be able to get for that price? What would be the next one up?
 
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my Mistake, the Best CPU for that kind of money will be the http://ark.intel.com/products/94196/Intel-Core-i7-6900K-Processor-20M-Cache-up-to-3_70-GHz its the new 8 core, 16 thread Skylake and its fantastic.
 
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