Good graphics card or good cpu cooler

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Hi,

I'm wondering if in my future build i must first take a excellent graphics card (r9 290) and 1 year later a good cpu cooler or take first of all the watercooling option for my cpu and after a year take a good graphics card (r9 280x and then a better one). I hope that i was explecit enough and that you understanded it. Thanks for your future answers.

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i'd (in almost every gaming scenario get the best GPU you can afford... is watercooling a necessity? what CPU are you running? is your mobo powerful enough to overclock? What all do you do on your PC?

It's really impossible to say until I saw the specs of your build... in all likelihood you could have both for the same price if you shop wisely

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i want to overclock my cpu (i5 4670k) because i will do some video eddeting in the future. And i can't stand when my cpu is to hot so i want the most performances for a not overkill price. my specs are: i5 4670k,msi z87-g55, 8go of ram at 2133 mhz, corsair h100i (or lower price of almost the same performance is also good), r9 280x, 1To for my hard drive, phanteks enthoo lux (if it comes out some day) and a cooler master g650m for the power supply. And a alsow wanted to say that if you take a case like the enthoo lux you have to use a watercooler (because of the room you have in the case it is just to awsome)

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let me reiterate... what do you already have and what's your budget? 

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i'm going to buy a hole new rig and my budget is $950 ($985 maximum)

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First off...  the enthoo luxe is a $250 case... that isn't going to happen at your budget...

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/RqNGbv

You could do something like this... That's the nicest budget windowed case I saw... I'd recommend 16GB of DDR3-1600+, but again... budget... watercooling also is a bit above the price range for the Intel option... I like the Xeon for video editing, but you can't overclock it (which pretty well makes the watercooling useless anyhow)... you could use the stock cooler really, but they're loud... the H97 chipset gives you m.2 support for a REALLY fast SSD after the prices come down, but it does have a nice asyncronous flash 120GB SSD (enough for windows and core programs) included... the Xeon would be faster than an overclocked 4690k for video editing...

here's another, probably better option, as it pretty much provides everything you wanted... 

http://pcpartpicker.com/p/WZqst6

Overclockable AMD 8-core option with 16GB of DDR3-1866, watercooled, and still has the Asus Durect CUII 280x... same SSD, 1TB storage...

if you want a R9 290 you can sack the SSD in either build and upgrade to that... but at 1080p the 280x will prove to be plenty... I think either would be a good buy... the Xeon would be a bit faster at specifically video editing, but the AMD option is the more balanced build... 

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+1 for everything in this post. I'd probably take the xeon build though. And for 1080p the 280/280x are basically perfect for 1080p, they max just about every game with 60fps except for a few very intensive games, namely Crysis 2/3 and Metro 2033/Last Light. That's my experience at least with my 7950.

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in my country the phanteks enthoo lux wil be at 129 bucks. Just for saying

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And is the xeon good for streaming and gaming (or the amd one)

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Both are fine for gaming and streaming... The Xeon is a much more powerful CPU but either will suit you well for what you need... What country are you in as that will greatly affect pricing

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I'm in europe next to France. (i don't want to say exactly were a live privacy)

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But that don't answer the objecrive of my post first a good cpu cooler or first a good graphics card

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get a super awesome cpu cooler dude yeah uh huh.