Is it worth upgrading to skylake from ivy bridge?

[Lundai]

I have a 3570k with a Z77 Xtreme4 mobo, EVGA GTX 670 FTW, and 2x4GB RAM with a hyper 212 Evo heat sink. My mobo just died out on me a few days ago and I have been looking into a replacement.

I am thinking of getting a 6700k, ROG Maximus VIII RANGER, and 2x8GB RAM, and within the coming months, upgrade to either 970 SSC SLI or 980TI in 1440p minimum and with that upgrading the 212 to a noctua. Is the hyper threading of the 6700k and overall facelift of a new system like this worth doing, or can the ivy bridge stay stable or handle 1440p or 4k with the new GPU(s) or should I dive into the latest from Intel?

Edit: I use this rig for playing MMO's, RTS, MOBA's, BF4, GTA 5, etc.

 

[jaguarskx]

Not really. The is not much of a performance improvement in games from Ivy Bridge to Skylake. At best you are talking about a few FPS.

There was only one game where I saw a at least a 10% increase in performance with Skylake vs older Intel CPUs, but I can't remember which game it was.

 

[theonerm2]

The only way to see a big difference in FPS between IVY BRIDGE and SKYLAKE is to have a super powerful card like a Titan X and overclock it and run the game at 1080p or lower. Now sense people aren't going to be doing that including yourself you won't really see a difference in most games because the graphics card will be the bottleneck. There are a few games that are very CPU bound and you might see a little bit of a difference but in most games you wouldn't be able to tell any difference in the FPS. You can save your money and just get a new motherboard. I would go with a 1440p screen for a single GTX 980 ti. The Core i5 3570K should be able to handle it just fine. If you want 4K then it's really going to cost you. I'd get no less than 2 GTX 980 ti's in sli for 4K. It can work with lesser cards in SLI but then you have to stick it out with only 4GB of vRAM(unless you go with AMD) and at 4K I wouldn't expect 4GB of vRAM to last very many years. Also you can run 4K on a single card but if you do that you're going to have to sacrifice FPS or graphics quality.

 

[rustyweasle]

i concur i have virtually the same set up as you but im running a msi gtx970 4GB on a standard gigabyte D3H and its runs bf3-4 titanfall crysis3 etc all fine (50-60fps)
I'm using a lg 34" ultra wide 21:9 screen @3440x1440 and i'm running out of ram, using around 3200 3400 mb on the above games
so get a good mb and a gtx 980 ti ...your cpu is good for a couple of years yet.
Also you can always over clock it to ad a bit more ..and you'll save a ton of cash lol