I am looking into purchasing all of these parts for a build (obviously). I was wondering if this CPU would bottleneck the XFX Radeon R9 280X any. I will be overclocking as much as I am comfortable with. Here is what I had in mind. (http://pcpartpicker.com/p/1Z3H1)
I think that if you do a mild overclock to around 4-4.2ghz, you'll be fine for most games. The CPU-intensive games like Crysis 3 might have dips here and there, but there shouldn't be too much bottlenecking. You can always overclock more if you feel like it.
Good. This CPU is great for the money in my opinion, and I didn't really want to go over $750. BTW literally every post you have always helped me/replied so I thank you for that ;D
You can oc that higher than 4.2ghz it has a 4.1 GHz Turbo clock just running it in turbo mode will get you 4.1Ghz
'tis what happens when I'm supposed to be finishing physics homework and there's a desktop right in front of me. Glad to help.