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IMO the Haswell-E platform (X99/i7 5xxx) is poor, overpriced and poor value for money.

For anything that uses up to 5 cores or less (read: all games and almost all photo editing functions) you will get better performance out of an i7 4xxx for half the price. If you really need the extra cores, buy a Haswell-EP Xeon, it has the same core with more features, runs faster, uses less power, and is cheaper. Plus you could double the RAM for less money on a DDR3 Haswell, which will make a much bigger difference than a measly 15% more CPU power if your workload is memory bound.

Either way an i7 5xxx is a complete waste of money, especially when you consider the excessive mainboard and RAM costs on top.