Help needed: 700€ Machine - Skylake or Haswell?

kendels

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Hi!

I am planning to build a new machine for round about 700 € (70% Workstation / 30% Gaming). As of now, I've decided to build the following setup:

1 x Intel Core i5-4460, 4x 3.20GHz, boxed (BX80646I54460)
1 x Kingston HyperX FURY schwarz DIMM Kit 8GB, DDR3-1600, CL10 (HX316C10FBK2/8)
1 x MSI GTX 960 Gaming 4G, GeForce GTX 960, 4GB GDDR5, DVI, HDMI, 3x DisplayPort (V320-034R)
1 x ASRock B85M Pro4 (90-MXGQ20-A0UAYZ)
1 x EKL Alpenföhn Ben Nevis (84000000119)
1 x Fractal Design Define R4 Black Pearl, schallgedämmt (FD-CA-DEF-R4-BL)
1 x Cooler Master G450M 450W ATX 2.31 (RS-450-AMAAB1)

But suddenly one of my friends came and told me that it would probably be an better idea to build an Skylake based machine (i5 6500).

To be honest, I am not experienced enough to judge if this is really true. In fact, I know that performance wise, there is almost no difference and that the power efficiency of the skylake is higher. Additionally, I really don't know which board to pick then (should be around the same price, as the ASRock in the current configuration)

That being said: I don't know what to do. Help me pls.

Best regards,
Kendels