Skylake i7 6700k or something else from an aging q6600

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Finally the time to upgrade my rig has come.

I currently have an oc'ed 3.2 ghz q6600 with 4gb ram, with a 120 GB SSD as a boot drive and a amd HD 6950 gpu.

I have set my eyes on a skylake build and I was wondering if I should be thinking of any other alternative builds.

What do you peeps think?

P.S. Its primarily for gaming with a 1080p display.

 
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Hyper 212 Evo for the cooler, or could look at the Cryorig H7, both $35 or less. For a mobo, depending on budget I'd go the Asus Z170-A or up a step to their Pro Gamer or for bestter go with the Z170 Hero, that's what I picked up ;)
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Skylake would be good choice to go, it's the newest available. If you were planning for a lot of heavy video editing or workstation type work then would think of going to a 2011 v3 build, but Skylake would prob be your best choice here, might look at the Asus Z170-A or their Pro Gamer Z170 for a mobo. Then in DDR4 would look at the GSkill Trident Z or Ripjaws V DRAM
 
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Well, I would like to keep my gpu for the time being, case (cooler Master full tower) and corsair gaming power supply 650w. As well as peripherals.

I live in Prague and I'm looking for at least a 5 year future proof upgrade.
 
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I just upgraded my Core2Duo e8400 PC from 2007 to a Skylake i7-6700k.

I kept the case, DVD drive, hard drives and GPU.

Replaced motherboard, CPU, CPU cooler, PSU and RAM.

The i7 6700k or i5-6600k are the ones to go for. I personally went for the i7 for the extra MHz CPU. If you can get the older i7-4770k for significantly cheaper, then there isn't much difference, and by the time you upgrade again they'll no doubt be on another socket, but the difference for me was only minor for the CPU. The Z97 motherboards were cheaper though.
 
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Thanks for the suggestions guys, looks like I'll be going with a skylake i7. Any recommendations on a motherboard and a cpu cooler for an oc of 4.5ghz on the cheap?
 
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Hyper 212 Evo for the cooler, or could look at the Cryorig H7, both $35 or less. For a mobo, depending on budget I'd go the Asus Z170-A or up a step to their Pro Gamer or for bestter go with the Z170 Hero, that's what I picked up ;)
 
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