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Seams to me an Athlon 860K at 4.3GHz will be just fine with the GTX980
You're preaching to the choir. The 860K is plenty for most* modern games, when coupled with a reasonable graphics card. Its quite simple that with this budget the OP isn't going to get more then a 960/270X, both of which the 860K is good enough to feed at 1080p.
The ironic thing here is that the 860K (3.7/4.0GHz + Kaveri enhancements) will have higher single thread performance (at stock) then either the 6300 (3.5/3.8GHz) or 8320E (3.2/3.5GHz), something that seem to escape most posters here. Who are constantly touting single thread performance... :whiste:
* Of course there will be a few outliers, but one can't expect everything on a budget.
ps: Seams TotalWar is also GPU limited
Total War games have always been hard on both CPU and GPU...