Looking forward from 2016 for a PC build

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So, I've got a machine that I built in 2011. It has an i5-2500k, GTX 560 Ti, 16GB RAM, and various HDDs/SSDs, including a RAID array with a discrete RAID card.

It's now 2016, and I'm interested in picking up some PC gaming again. Obviously I need a new GPU. But the rest is not so obvious. It doesn't seem like any great strides in CPU performance have been made, and I imagine that even the GTX 1000 series GPUs aren't going to be limited by my motherboard (an AsRock something or other).

So I'm looking for general advice on where the market is going. Should I wait for the GTX 1000? Is the new iteration of Intel CPUs going to be super fast? Is $1000 worth of 2016 components going to make a meaningful difference versus my late 2011 machine? Please share your thoughts.
 
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the newer skylake cpu are faster then the older cpu. the newer hardware and windows 10 with a ssd is fast. intel with newer cpu have stop there tic toc cycle. it getting harder and harder for them to shrink the cpu smaller then 14mm. the newer cpu that are out now are going ot be around for a bit.
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the newer skylake cpu are faster then the older cpu. the newer hardware and windows 10 with a ssd is fast. intel with newer cpu have stop there tic toc cycle. it getting harder and harder for them to shrink the cpu smaller then 14mm. the newer cpu that are out now are going ot be around for a bit.
 
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A 2500K @ 4.6GHz is surprisingly powerful against modern CPUs at stock speeds. IPC gains haven't been that impressive, so at 4.6GHz you should be performing at least as well as a 4.0GHz modern CPU. True, they can OC to higher speeds but the fact is you're probably doing as well as as i7-4790K at stock which is essentially the same as a 6700K at stock.

One advantage you'd get with a Z170 board (or X99) would be the PCIe 3.0 x4 NVMe SSDs available via the M.2 port(s). The next iteration of Intel CPUs will not be a major revelation. There are some Broadwell-E chips coming out later this year, but the only interesting chip I see is the i7-6900K - rumored to be an 8C/16T 3.2GHz Broadwell-E chip for X99 at $600. So this would be the first 8C/16T chip from Intel under $999 (i7-5960X is an 8C/16T 3.0GHz Haswell-E). Skylake-E is probably postponed until 2017 with the new chipset.

Looking at the rest of your system... I think you can get away with a new GPU and get pretty great performance out of it. If you can wait for the next generation GTX cards, I think the die shrink will enable a meaningful performance boost.
 
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