Upgrading my PC(or rather building a new one)

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Exeonx

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My current specs are:

I-5 3750 3.4GHz
EVGA 760 GTX
SSD Samsung 850 EVO 256GB(+ internal WD 1TB drive)
Corsair DDR3 1333MHZ 16GB RAM
Asus Z77-V LX
Aerocool X-strike 800W PSU

I'm in the process of turning this 3-year old budget PC into a high end-gaming PC

I'm aware of how crappy my PSU is, and to not run risks I'm already replacing my PSU alongside my GPU, so by the end of the week I'll have an EVGA Supernova G2 850W PSU, and a EVGA 980GTX TI ACX SC+

However I'm not looking at what i Should do with my CPU/MB/RAM my HDD will probably remain the same for a good while, but I'm considering upgrading the rest somewhere next month.

Though the main question is, Haswell or skylake? I'm not really tied down to a budget here, and I don't mind waiting a couple of weeks more if I don't have the money.

So I'm mainly looking at, Should i get skylake or Haswell, and which Motherboard(has to be Asus though) would be recommended I'm not an into heavy overclocking, however I don't have to go with budget anymore, so I don't mind paying for better quality, or for actually better features

Thanks in advance
 
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Skylake is the newer so that might bear in and uses DDR4 - if you that's the way I'd go. For mobo, I'm planning the Asus Hero (the Z87 and Z97 Heros were the best 1150 mobos, (both mine in sig). The Z170-A or Pro Gamer would be good lower cost solutions also
 
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Exeonx

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So basically it would be better to upgrade to skylake, good to know, for gaming i suppose the 6600K is sufficient and the 6700K won't be that much of an improvement if I'm only gaming right? or has this changed recently? I was always told that the I7's were no real improvement (FPS-wise) over the I5-line when it comes to gaming
 
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