Skylake or older gen?

[TheCheapGamer]

Currently I have a Pentium G2030 LGA 1155 CPU. Fairly old, fairly weak.

Now I recently got a small amount of cash, and here in South Africa, PC Parts are A LOT more expensive than most places. So I with Skylake lauching I have two options, either upgrade my CPU, Motherboard and RAM now, to probably a i5-4460 and use the 8GB of RAM I currently have, or I can finish the aesthetics of my PC, get new peripherals, new case and so on.

I cannot find any LGA 1155 CPU's here at all, and shipping isnt an option due to high tax.

So would going for Skylake be a good option? My original thoughts were :
Intel i5-6400 (when launched)
MSI Z170
Crucial 4GB 2400Mhz (will get another 4GB in a few months )

I would love to have the newer architecture, for the 'wow' factor, and also due to the fact that as soon as something new is launched here in SA, we stop supplying the older stuff, or trust me I would've tried to get a i5-3570k by now.

Is going for Skylake for a fairly frequent gamer a good choice? I game at 1080p and play games such as BF4 and Arma 3, and surprisingly my dual core pentium can pull its own weight ( barely ) at medium to high settings with a GTX 760.

Any and all info is appreciated.

 

[coozie7]

Skylake isn't that much faster than Haswell or Broadwell, it's main benefits are in the motherboard/chipset with more PCI-E lanes and greater connectivity through later USB revisions and wider support for SSD installations.
So, ask yourself: What do I NEED, and what do I WANT?
It's great to have 48 PCI-E 3.0 lanes and half a dozen USB 3.0 headers but if, like many of us, you run a single graphics card and only use USB for the printer/scanner or the odd pen drive job and don't mind a 'slow' SATA 3 SSD why pay through the nose for a Z170 MB when a 'H' or even 'B' series 1150 'board will be more than enough? Grab a cheap Z 97 'board and you'll even get a M2 SSD slot and overclocking options!
But not the WOW FACTOR! 😉

 

[TheCheapGamer]

Thats what I was hoping for, pretty much anything is better than my Pentium G2030. And as there is a large gaming event happening here soon, I may then go for possibly an i5-4690k and Z97 if they come down to a good price. The main reason like I said, and it sounds sad, but would be for the boasting rights that come with owning a Skylake CPU after owning a dual core Pentium for a long time now.

 

[coozie7]

It's not sad, we all like a little bling (wow factor) in our lives but the reality is we often have to settle for something less or go hungry.