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Please help me decide

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I'm part way through a build that was going to be an i7 4790k and 16GB ram. I've already got the Z97 board. This pc is just going to be used for gaming but I wanted a little future proofing so that I don't end up looking at building a new one again in a few years. Reading various stuff on the net is telling me that I should probably get an i5 4690K and 8GB ram instead but then to stir the mix up Haswell-E is now out so should I be looking at a 5820K, X99 and ??GB ram instead or for gaming alone is that pointless?

I don't have oodles of cash sat around otherwise I'd just go for the best and be done with it but I also don't have a fixed budget as I don't mind building it over a few more months unless of course I'm still building it when the next wave of CPUs come out!

For reference I've already bought:
Corsair Obsidian Series 250D Mini ITX
SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold"
Gigabyte Radeon R9 280X Rev2.0 WindForce 3X OC 3072MB
Gigabyte Z97N-Gaming 5 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 Mini ITX Motherboard
Samsung SE-218CN/RSBS Ultra Slim External DVD-RW Drive
Corsair Hydro H100i 240mm Extreme Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
Crucial MX100 512GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD

I have a 32" screen and prefer to game at 1920x1080.

Realistically which CPU and amount of ram would suit me best? Please help me decide for definite.
 
For gaming the 4790k should last you for a nice long time - Haswell-E is mainly for content creation, editing, workstation etc. Also, I don't believe any ITX X99 boards will be coming out?
 
Another thing to take into consideration is that the Z97 boards will be compatible with Intel's Broadwell chips when they are released.
 
Great now you've thrown Broadwell into the mix! Perhaps I should go for the 4690 now then and switch out to a broadwell chip next year? I don't think I've ever been so unsure of what route to take before when building a pc, it's frustrating.
 
Yeah unlikely there will be ITX X99. The big reason to pick it (other than the core count obviously) would be the PCI lanes for large multi-GPU set ups.

You've got the makings of nice system there, just go with the 4970K, should last a few years. Doubt you'll be rushing to switch onto Broadwell either.
 
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