Looking for a good CPU to go with my R9 380 GPU for some mid to high end 1080p gaming.

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I'm gonna be getting a new CPU to replace my old AMD FX 6300 since I bought a new GPU a bit ago and the CPU is holding it back a bit. The chipset won't matter since my mobo needs replacing anyway so I can get whichever one I need for the CPU. I've been looking for a midrange-ish i5 that I can play new titles on at High or ultra with 60 fps.

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4690k
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6500

Or any others you think would go nicely with my GPU to get some good performance. If it's a bit overkill I don't really mind since it can cover a future GPU update. Love to hear you opinions on this, don't want to buy one and have it be a bit less than what I need. (Like I said, a bit overkill is ok)
 
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I would not consider Haswell at this point.

The 6500 can be used with a cheap ($60) B150 or H170 board, and comes with a cooler, making it a great value. The 6600K, all said and done, will be $100-150 more expensive for a potential 10-15% extra performance from overclocking, and for that price you can get an i7 6700. Any of these chips are good gaming CPUs; the 6600K and 6700 have some extra grunt which you'll notice in some very CPU-heavy games, but the 6500's performance is typically very good.
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I would not consider Haswell at this point.

The 6500 can be used with a cheap ($60) B150 or H170 board, and comes with a cooler, making it a great value. The 6600K, all said and done, will be $100-150 more expensive for a potential 10-15% extra performance from overclocking, and for that price you can get an i7 6700. Any of these chips are good gaming CPUs; the 6600K and 6700 have some extra grunt which you'll notice in some very CPU-heavy games, but the 6500's performance is typically very good.
 
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Overclocking provides relatively little these days. With stock clocks around or above 4ghz, and with most chips topping out at ~4.5, it's very different from the days when you could buy a 3.2ghz CPU and expect 4.7-4.9ghz, or earlier, a 1.8ghz CPU that could reasonably hit 2.7ghz, or even earlier still, a 300mhz CPU that could reliably make it to 450mhz. The 50%+ gains of the past are gone, and that money is arguably better spent on more cores / threads now.
 
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The i7 surelly is faster, but it's only real advantages appear when you run a multi core optimised program, in all other cases it has little to no advantage over a stock 6600K. And an OC ed 6600K can easily catch up with a 6700.
 
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I think the point was that OC doesn't make as big of a difference for the every day user today as it did years ago for the money that needs to be spend. He talking about gaming at 1080p with R9 380 not trying to push SLI titans at 4k. So the extra money that he would spend on better MB, K cpu and better cooling to OC won't be worth the extra $$.
 
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Me and my friends did a comparison, but with haswell. We took and i7 4790K and downclocked it to the i7 4790's stats and compared it to an OCd i5 4690K in GTA V with ultra on max distance. The diffderence was slightly into i5's advantage.
 
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There's nothing wrong with getting a better motherboard and better cooling, even if it's not for overclocking. Just having beefier everything will mean better power delivery, lower temps and subsequently lower noise, and super cool toys I MEAN TOOLS like multi-core enhancement, unavailable on non-Z chipsets. For modern games, unless you're trying to be a super CQC mlg pro bio lab fighter or tower stomper in Planetside 2 or running raids regularly with 5 animation cancelling gunners in TERA, there's no need for an overclocked i5 in a gaming set up. Hyperthreading and parallelization wins nowadays whereas clock speeds used to be king even just a few years ago.

I also do agree, that unless you're super strapped for cash and want to reuse your existing DDR3, don't go Haswell. There's really no point in buying something that's older when the newer stuff is exactly the same cost. Also, that R9 380 is going to struggle a bit, regardless of CPU, to run games maxed out at 1080p60 with a consistent framerate. Realistically, it's going to be 1080p40, as my overclocked 380x struggles to average 60fps completely maxed out at 1080p in unigine heaven and valley, which already usually presents an overly optimistic look at framerates. You're going to have to evaluate, for the games you play, whether you want the eye candy at lower fps or less eye candy at higher fps.

You also have the option of waiting for Kaby Lake and Zen, but that Zen hype train has long since derailed.
 
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