An 8 core Haswell-E is going to cost you at least $600 for the processor alone, it's out of the realms of feasibility for most people.
I'd still be confident with an i5 and I'd take a 3570K/4670K all day long over any of AMD's 8 'core' offerings like the 8350. Most games are still made to rely on one or two strong threads, somewhere Intel excels and AMD falls short my quite a margin.
You could do that on a Hyper 212, all depends on the silicon lottery. What cooler are you using? Temps seem pretty poor for that clock speed.
I agree for current game engines 100%, but since development for next-gen will be centered around 8 physical cores, even though they're weak, I'm concerned that in a year or so we'll be seeing games that actually require 6-8 cores to properly run.
If we are to believe Ubisoft's requirements we're seeing one already.
Wouldn't that be logical, or are current quad cores just so much more powerful that they'd be able to just brute force everything, even if taking into account the PC version's greater resolution and more effects?
And if you also take into account that PC gaming might not just get ports this time with Valve and NVIDIA getting active about making the difference with consoles more obvious, current setups may be soon obsolete.
Then again it's not like NVIDIA would push for CPU dependent optimizations.
I really can't wait to see benchmark wars in the next months.