What to go for stronger CPU or GPU?

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So im currently looking at ordering a new pc in a couple of days. Just to get a better idea I mainly want my rig for Wow hopefully raiding at high to ultra but I also play a couple of moba's , overwatch and bethesda / bioware rpg style games . I enjoy the more cinematic games on ps4 <I'm a scrub I know but old habits die hard. So not having an unlimited budget I need to chose between:

1. Intel i7-6700k, 10% overclock with a gtx 1070

2. Intel i5-6600k 20% overclock with the gtx1080

3. AMD FX 9590 with gtx 1080

Mainly Running a 1 monitor setup at 1080p. Keeping in mind the games I want to run what will be the setup for me?
All configs will have a motherboard where i can add a second video card in the future, 16gb ram, 240GB ssd and 2tb HDD. Will the better cpu or gpu give the most bang for my buck?

Thank you Internet

[UFPInfinity]

I would have to go with option 2. You don't really see much of a performance increase by picking an i7 over an i5.

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Thanks for the input

[abracmike]

The 6600k with a gtx1070 could work fairly well too if you want to adjust budget chunks elsewhere.

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The difference between i5 and i7 isn't worth it if you don't use the extra cores (for things as rendering/encoding). Games like WoW are single threaded, so the octacore AMD CPU really doesn't stand a chance against an i5 for it. Besides that, AMD CPUs tend to get annoyingly hot, so you'd need some proper cooling too.

Personally I'd go for number 2. But for a single monitor at 1080p the gtx1080 really sounds like overkill. Have you thought about using the i5-6600K with a 1070 and put the money you'd save into buying a 1440p monitor instead?

[Dedweight]

The difference between i5 and i7 isn't worth it if you don't use the extra cores

Small technicality but I think you meant threads not cores, the i5 and i7 have the same number of cores just the i7 has hyper-threading(virtually doubling the number of cores). Other than that I agree, go with the i5 with a 1070 and save up for a better monitor.

[Perryn]

Traditionally GPU matters more than CPU, and the two cpu's listed are fairly close as far as wow is concerned, so you'd get more from 2 than 1. I'm not up to snuff on AMD any longer (used to love them but that was a loooooong time ago) so don't know how they measure up. I currently use a 6700k with a 660Ti (gpu is next thing to upgrade whenever that'll be), for reference (upgraded from a 5 year old i5 2500k just recently) and running wow at somewhere between high/ultra.

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Small technicality but I think you meant threads not cores, the i5 and i7 have the same number of cores just the i7 has hyper-threading(virtually doubling the number of cores). Other than that I agree, go with the i5 with a 1070 and save up for a better monitor.

Woops, exactly what I meant

[Thunderball]

No reason to go with i7 for gaming. I dont get why would you be able to overclock an i5 by 20% and i7 only by 10%? Also, GTX 1080 is overkill for 1080p. So I'd get a GTX 6600K+GTX 1070.

[callipygoustp]

gpu over cpu imo. Been the way I have been building my main machine for many years now. Never disappointed.