I will build a new PC soon. Now I have all the parts except the CPU and the fitting Motherboard.
My price range for CPU+MB is about 300-350$. I want to have a solid CPU that is future proof for the next 5 years, so that I only have to change GPU to play all the future games. The PC is for gaming only and most inportantly is that I can play modded Skyrim on ultra or very high settings.
My build is:
GPU: Club 3D R9 290 royalKing (4GB)
RAM: Kingston HyperX Fury Black (2x, 4GB, DDR3-1600, DIMM)
SSD: Samsung 840 Evo Basic (120GB, 2.5")
HDD: WD Red (1000GB, 2.5", NAS)
CD-D: Samsung DVD-ROM SH-118BB/BEBE (Schwarz)
PSU: Corsair Builder Series CX600 V3 (600W)
Case: Sharkoon T28, Blue Edition (Midi Tower)
I was looking at the Intel Xeon 1230 v3 , Intel i5 4570 and AMD FX-8350 but I don't care if it's an other one.
I would suggest an 8350, with OCing it should last 3-4 more years but not 5. Maybe a current unlocked I7 but other than that. and that would cost you more.
Intel i5 4670k is the best gaming CPU at the moment, barring 4690k. If you can fit in the xeon, sure it's a better CPU, but that power is not used in gaming. FX 8350 is also good, but not as good as the i5, unless you get lucky with overclocking.
The most "future proof" CPU out of the lot is the hyperthreaded xeon e3-1230 v3. No one will tell you for sure how long it will last in current programs due to the fast changing nature of computers. A sandy bridge from 2011 is still a viable chip today and will be for a few more years. But there have been quantum leaps in performance differences from one generation to the other (for example from AMD k7 to k8 athlon64, intel Conroe from Netburst-Prescott/cedar, from nehalem to sandy)
That xeon is basically an i7 4770. it will perform better than the i5, not by much but it is the better deal, the 8350 will perform on par with the i5 but overclocking can achieve a minor gain, however over all the xeon will be the best over all performer especially since it has 8mb l3 cache and it has hyper threading.
Totally right here. The Xeon 1230v3 is a 4770 without the iGPU.
I have an 8350 with an OC, that Xeon and an OCed i5 3570k.
In game they are all about the same to be honest. The Xeon was the quickest followed by the FX and then the i5. But the differences in frame rates were minor (Less than 5-8 FPS). Most games are much more GPU reliant. That being said at higher resolutions (1440p+) the FX and the Xeon seemed to do a little better. The FX was only really beat in poorly optimized games like ARMA.
Now HT isn't the same as real cores and in game it really doesn't make much of a difference but in productivity it does help a bit. The Xeon and FX were far faster than the i5 in video editing and encoding with the Xeon edging out a win again.
The thing is AM3+ is dead but at the same time I almost count LGA 1150 dead as well. I mean Z97 has some great features but nothing too amazing at least from a CPU performance standpoint. I don't think Broadwell CPUs are going to be significantly faster than the current Haswell offerings and the next Intel architecture is going to use a different socket. So really with any of these chips I'd say in 3-4 years time when you need to upgrade your CPU you'll need a new motherboard regardless.
Any of those cpu's you list will do. 5 yrs time, yep no crystal ball but going from what was released 5 yrs ago (intel quads) of which still kick about in several rigs. Go with what you can get the best deal on. For gaming the gpu will always outweigh the cpu in terms of requirements, and I cant see that changing.