Would an i5-2500k be bottlenecked by a GTX 1070

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Depending on your motherboard and if you want to upgrade, you could probably get a i7-3770k or a i5-3570k and be in pretty good shape. If you want to go to the newest platform, Kaby Lake is a Skylake refresh (like Devil's Canyon was to Haswell) and should be out later this year. All the generations since your CPU have been small performance increases 5-10% on average and mostly just added newer features, like DDR4 and USB 3.0, PCIe 3.0, etc.

My CPU is older than yours but I still haven't run into a program that makes me need to upgrade, and I haven't even OC'd it yet. If I do upgrade, it will likely be to Cannon Lake or possibly AMD's Zen CPU, depending on how it performs, next year.
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As a i5-2500k owner that games at 1440p...I have not encountered any bottlenecking in games, but I would say the 2500k is getting to the point where it could be upgraded. If you own it already..go ahead and game with it...just make sure to invest more so in the GPU. The GPU makes the biggest difference in gaming.

EDIT. I'm gonna test my system later and see if there are any signs in the games I play...BF4, Doom, Witcher 3. Here is something interesting to test your cpu:
http://www.pcgamer.com/will-your-cpu-bottleneck-your-graphics-card/
 
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When do you think a good time would be to upgrade? Should I skip Skylake and wait for something in the near future to come out? Like Kaby Lake or Cannon Lake or whathaveyou...

I havent done much research into this topic
 
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Depending on your motherboard and if you want to upgrade, you could probably get a i7-3770k or a i5-3570k and be in pretty good shape. If you want to go to the newest platform, Kaby Lake is a Skylake refresh (like Devil's Canyon was to Haswell) and should be out later this year. All the generations since your CPU have been small performance increases 5-10% on average and mostly just added newer features, like DDR4 and USB 3.0, PCIe 3.0, etc.

My CPU is older than yours but I still haven't run into a program that makes me need to upgrade, and I haven't even OC'd it yet. If I do upgrade, it will likely be to Cannon Lake or possibly AMD's Zen CPU, depending on how it performs, next year.
 
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if you overclock the cpu you can skip this current generation, unless you want a feature your current mobo lacks like M.2

 
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I assume you have the 2500k, and have been debating upgrading for the last half year. My conclusion...gonna wait for Kaby Lake then decide. Intel will be releasing some info about it in August and I think the chips will be available Nov. or Dec at latest. So, I'd wait at least until Intel makes announcements about Kaby Lake. That's what I'm gonna do.
 
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