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I had to google a long time to find this, so I thought it was worth sharing.  I think most computer builders or folks paying to have a computer built for photography will opt for the Intel i7 processor.  Thing is, there are so many i7 processors out there.  The Intel site had far too much info and a myriad of sales pitches.  At this time, July 2015, the 4000 series Haswell processors look like a great choice for us photographers.  Wikipedia, my savior:
The two top processors are $600- $1000 and have more cores than I need.  I went with the 4790 circled.  More in the $350 range.

Not sure the pic below will be readable but it contains more info:

The 4790 and 4790K are the ones I recommend for Photoshop power users with high megapixel cameras these days. I built my new workstation about 7 months ago with the 4790K.

Yes.  I wanted the K version but it wasn't available at HP which was offering the lowest price on a pretty tricked out machine.  I doubt we photographers want anything slower because I even see some slowing on my 8 meg JPEGS when jamming with my new machine.  With the 36 meg Nikon and the new Canon monster meg cameras, add RAW to that plus photoshopping.  Ugg.

Several speed tricks I have developed are:  Remove Adobe Bridge unless it is your photo browser, it slows photoshop down.  Remove Lightroom as it bogs the computer.  I find bare bones photoshop CC is really fast without all the hitchhikers.  Windows Picture Viewer is my current photo browser, and it is not a resource hog.  But I realize going this lean is not everybody's gig.

Eventually I want to replace my one 7200 3 TB hard drive with several trick SSD's, as this is a current bottleneck.  My current 16 ram is not an issue because I do not photoshop much, but if I shot RAW and liked to photoshop, I'd think 64 ram would be needed.

My situation here is San Diego California may be somewhat unique in being able to shoot every day with the nice weather and myriad places to find interesting subjects.  I typically generate around 1000 images when shooting flight, and around 400 when shooting stills.  So my problem is speed of deleting the also rans, not so much photoshop.  I consider the file folder properly edited when I have about 10 non redundant images worthy of sharing. 

Now, for a little non serious fun, I see there are some wacky ways to cool these new fast processors which tend to run hot: