I don't know about specifics regarding this game, but the OP's motherboard seems to have 4+2 phases, so it should be able to power an 8350 or other 8 core CPU:
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2215537/asus-m5a97-evo-asus-m5a99x-evo.html

With a decent cooler, I would not worry about running an eight core CPU on that motherboard, so this would allow for better GPU utilization if not wanting to build another Intel build when getting a new GPU.

edit:
http://www.hardwaresecrets.com/asus-m5a97-r20-motherboard/6/

AMD might have AM4 available this year, too...

This post was edited by L4d on Feb 1 2016 03:37am