should i upgrade to skylake or not

[the noob]

I have been saving up for a while now for a upgrade,should i upgrade when skylake comes out or should i wait till kaby-lake and get a second monitor instead.

My current specs are
i5-2300
gtx 970
corsair vs650 psu
hynix oem 2x4 1333mhz ram

 

[TheNewb1]

You should go for skylake,second monitor sounds better than it is....

like when playing csgo i do a 180 and the mouse goes to the other screen and exits the game!

 

[PsyKhiqZero]

What games do you play? For an MMO player a second monitor is the way to go. Not many games will be CPU bound by a i5, even a 2300. If you set games to Full Screen, then the mouse wandering should not be an issue. It's only a issue in windowed games.

A second monitor is also great if your into content creation.

 

[Solandri]

Intel updates their CPUs in a tick-tock cycle. One generation they will update the CPU architecture. Next generation they will use the same architecture but shrink it down to a smaller size. So Broadwell has the same architecture as Haswell, it's just be shrunk down from 22 nm to 14 nm.

The same will be true of Skylake and Cannonlake. They will share the same architecture, but Cannonlake will be a die shrink.

In practical terms, that means performance will be almost identical, just that Cannonlake will use less power (and generate less heat). Intel usually updates the graphics every generation, so Cannonlake's integrated GPU will probably be better than Skylake's. But you're planning to use a GTX 970 for video so that won't matter to you.

Since this is a desktop, you probably don't care about the power savings of Cannonlake either. So for all practical purposes, Skylake and Cannonlake will be nearly identical to you. That is, you won't get additional performance (other than possibly higher clock speed) by waiting for Cannonlake.