empier1988 :
manez :
A lot of people with same era cpu as you are looking to upgrade when the skylake cpus come out, in a year or so.
No specs have been revealed yet but it should provide a big enough jump in performance.
Are these going to be worth waiting for. I've read that their main boosts will be power consumption and integrated graphics power. Doesn't seem like a big switch over the current generation for people who use dedicated gpus for gaming
Yes, it's safe to say the mainstream platform will continue to get better integrated graphics, but even if skylake (note that broadwell still comes out before skylake) only get an 10% gain in cpu power compared to broadwell, you would still be looking at a about 70% stronger cpu compared to your current one.
It's of course entirely possible that you can continue to game on your old i5 just fine, but the theoretical power increase will be fairly decent.