Been out of the MOBO/CPU game for a while. Advice

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I haven't touched my gaming pc for about 4 months now, shame on me, recently i started playing more and more pc games (battlefield,cod,AC,farcry etc etc) i can run most games on ultra but of course there is always that itch of upgrading, not to mentioned my MOBO is almost 3 years old, dont judge i like new things.

Current setup:

Wins 8.1 64bit
Asus sabertooth z77 LGA 1155
I5-2500k OC to 4.0 (stable)
CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB DDR3
EVGA GTX780 SC ACX cooler
Samsung SSD 6gbs 256GB

Most people would be satisfied with this setup but again the mobo and cpu are pretty damn old, my question to you all is:

Whats the current best gaming MOBO and CPU right now? (CPU/MOBO/RAM combo)

Or will i be wasting my money for small or no gain?

Thanks.
 

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Im guessing the z97 is the new generation from the z77, damn i been out of the game too long.

 

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Nice, just bought this combo.

Also should i keep my current ram setup? or is there something better out there now?

Current: CORSAIR Vengeance 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800)
 

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Well ran into a small problem.

Looks like my windows 8 key has been block after replacing my mobo and cpu did a clean install, pc runs fine but its asking to active windows every now and then with error 0xc004c003