Is it worth getting a i5 4690k still? (Skylake)

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I know this question kinda gets asked a lot but here is my situation. I have a build that is decent for light gaming but it struggles in games like bf4 48+ player servers.

A8-6600k
R9-280
Evga 600b
8gb 1600 ram

From what I know skylake will come out anytime from June to October? I have about $340 and would like to upgrade to an i5 4690k + Gigabyte gaming 7 which is possible through bundling at microcenter. I am not too familiar with pricing on new cpus but I am guessing ddr4 ram along with skylake + lga 1151 will be costly. I guess my big question is if I get the 4690k will I still be able to max out new games for at least until 2016. From my understanding an overclocked i5 4690k shouldn't be terribly weaker then a stock skylake and will be able to run future games.(I know the r9 280 will bottleneck in most cases but it is still a decent gpu for high settings and is always upgradeable).

Knowing my situation and my want to run newer games on high settings would it still be a bad choice not to wait.
 
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Might wait for a Broadwell desktop CPU, but I wouldn't hold my breath for a Skylake anytime soon. Broadwell mobile chips were just released. When Skylake releases it will be the same (Y-series, U-series, M series, then desktop, you won't see Skylake desktop processors for a good while, likely about a year.
 
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Really wrong there. Skylake K unlocked processors are coming out in August.
 
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I take any such roadmap news with a grain of salt. Intel would kind of be shooting themselves in the foot to have two desktop releases so close together. Though that DDR3 / DDR4 separation might make it worthwhile to the OEMs who have large stockpiles of LGA1150 motherboards and DDR3 memory.
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylake_(microarchitecture)
 
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As much as I like Wikipedia, Intel didn't write that page...

A lot of what is out there is expectations and extrapolated roadmaps from older event presentations. Every company shifts deadlines and Intel is no different.

They say market release, but I'm going with what many other people have stated. They will do a paper launch in August, give out all the details, offer a few products, but not the whole line up, if any, to general consumers to buy through retailers.

It would be truly odd for them to offer a desktop processor, and an all new motherboard line up, in August and only release Skylake mobile SKUs closer to end of the year.
 
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Skylake will not be a big gap to haswell, 10% difference or less. The haswells will do for another 2-3 years maybe, look at ivybridge it is still good today some still use sandybridge too. The skylake would be better off for someone upgrading from 2011 cpu or earlier. In the fx series case the skylake series i5 or i7 would be good to upgrade from if owning an fx maybe but not a haswell. Fx is good no fanboy crap here, I own one and is v.good for my needs.
 
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Other people may have different opinions or needs, it sort of comes down to what your needs are. Is your current system holding you back and if so, how badly? If you need an upgrade sooner than later, the current i5's will work well. If you can wait for skylake whenever it actually gets released there are some benefits going to the z107 chipset. 20 pcie lanes instead of 16, a few extra sata and usb headers with what will likely be a slight increase in performance (10-15% or so). Depending how the z107 motherboards are done they may have ddr3 support or mixed support for ddr3/ddr4 but are supposed to be making ddr4 available. Not sure what support they'll have for ddr3 which you currently have.

For someone who needs to sli 2 nvidia cards and needs a couple extra pci lanes for an additional card (like wifi or sound) it might be worth waiting. Not everyone uses an sli setup. For me personally I have no need for sli and prefer to run a single card, but I'm also not gaming across multiple monitors in 4k either (nor any desire to any time soon). The extra pci lanes sound good but wouldn't benefit a user like me in reality.

Some are concerned about the current 16 pci lanes with z97 in the event they want to run m.2 or sata express and sli'd nvidia cards (which require x8/x8 and takes up all 16 lanes). The m.2/sata express option on the z97 doesn't use pci lanes from the 16 available from the cpu, rather uses pcie 2.0 lanes available via the chipset so it's a non issue.

If you decide to go with current i5's, a motherboard swap, cpu and cooler are all that are needed (along with windows re install of course) and you can reuse your 8gb of ram. No one can say for sure what your needs are or will be except for you but at least knowing the options with each it may help you choose what's right for you.
 
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