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What games, specifically?
Both new consuls sport 8 cores.
If the industry does not change and the majority of PC games are mere ports then the logical assumption based upon the recent history would be 8
I firmly believe the days of the i5 4c4t CPU being the prefered gaming chip are numbered
I am looking for something that will work for most games
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which two consuls support 8 cores?
I would suggest you go for 4 cores. If you buy 8 core now and expect to take advantage of it in future. In that situation sorry to say you can't take full advantage of it. How many times it happen when you throw away hard cash to be future proof. May be in coming years there will be more devolved version of 8 core and then you will realized it was not worth to spend on 8 core. My piece of advice is buy what is in main stream upgrade later. Finally if you have money to throw away then go for 8 core.
A lot of forum necrophiliacs in this thread..
PS4 and XBOX ONE are 8 core APU based machines.
Good choices for gaming right now include the AMD FX6300 and 8320/8350 and the Intel 4690K/4790K. Personally I'd go with the 4790K right now myself.
The gaming computer I would build right now within a reasonable budget would be-
i7 4790K or FX8350
ASRock Z97Extreme6 or Gigabyte 970AUD3P
2X4GB DDR3 2133
SeaSonic S12G S12G-650 650W
Samsung 840 EVO 256GB
Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB
Nvidia GTX 970
Your choice of ATX case with good air flow (My fav is Corsair 760T)
Corsair H100i or H110 (depending on whether said case supports 280mm radiators)
The AMD build would save you some money but most games show the 4790K with about a 5% advantage in framerate.
BTW you may be unaware but if you only plan to use 1 GPU you have the option of making a tiny computer with all the performance of a full size machine.
Swap the case for a Corsair 250D and the motherboard for a Z97-I by ASUS and you're on the way there. Sadly, no motherboards for the 8350 are the right size.