Get 6600k or wait till 2016 i5s?

[LittleBigRunner]

I am planning to upgrade my gtx 780 and i7 2600k, to a gtx 1060 (preferably a asus strix).

I need a litte help deciding what cpu to pair with it, i cant afford an i7, so a i5 6600k will be fine, but should i wait until there will be a new 2016 model?
Thanks, i tried to research future i5 models but couldnt find any thing useful

 

[CTurbo]

Your i7 is still good enough for you to wait a little while longer if you want.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

What resolution you play at? I game at 1440p and in moving my 980 Ti from a P67/2600K to this Z170X/6700K a few months ago I saw a roughly 5 FPS increase across the board. At 1440p with max settings you will be almost completely GPU bound. My minimum frame rates went up but in general the 2600K was more than sufficient for a 980 Ti which is about the same as a GTX 1070.

I upgraded more for the motherboard features than anything.

 

[why_wolf]

You mean Kaby Lake? May know more in August but end of 2016 seems most likely. Remember Kaby Lake is just a rehash of Skylake so performance will not majorly improved. Just go with whatever is available when you want to build waiting will not net you any major improvement on the CPU front.

At this point you need to wait 3 or 4 generations to gain a worthwhile improvement on the CPU front.

 

[mrmez]

OC your 2600k and see what happens.
As said, you'll probably only see a minor increase, and that should be enough to hold off for awhile.

 

[Carbongrip]

You i7 2600k is just fine for now, just try overclocking it a little. In fact, in things that are heavy on threading your current i7 will beat the i5 6600k @ stock due to hyperthreading on the i7 2600k. Just get the graphics card for now, you will see it performs just fine.

Just to rehash, by going from i7 2600k to i5 6600k you lose hyperthreading, so things that are heavily threaded will perform slightly worse on the i5 even though its made with a newer manufacturing process.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

Here are some actual benchmarks.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/287?vs=1544

 

[smorizio]

the newer kurby lake will have a newer chipset then the older 170. from leak speck of the 200 chipset there going to have more pci lanes for the gpus.