BTW you might wanna wait 3-4 months before you build. AMD's new Zen/RyZen CPU architecture will be hitting consumer markets in the next couple months and the early showcases (admittedly, by AMD themselves) look very promising; basically outperforming Intel 6700k CPUs at equivalent clockspeeds. If AMD is able to keep their pricing down, as usually they do, we could see 6 and/or 8-core AMD CPUs for similar prices as Intel's 4 and 6-core offerings.
If nothing else they will be introducing competition back to the market and so, even if you're not interested in building an AMD rig, it should at least push the prices down on Intel's CPUs.
I'd at least wait til the early review samples are sent out and we get some real-world benchmarks (I always like to look at a number of reviwers, namely: Anandtech, OC3D, LinusTechTips, HardwareCanucks, and Arstechnica)
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