Upgrading to kabylake/skylake from a 2500k

[HaoKuren23]

Would it be worth upgrading to Skylake/Kabylake from a 2500k?

Looking more towards a Skylake 6600 + Asus H270F

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

Absolutely , good upgrade.

Go Kaby.

 

[Dunlop0078]

I would get a kaby lake 7600 with a H270 board. I believe you need a bios update on H270 boards to support skylake chips and the 7600 should be about the same p[rice as the 6600 depending on where you live, so no reason not to get that.

 

[HaoKuren23]

I would get a kaby lake 7600 with a H270 board. I believe you need a bios update on H270 boards to support skylake chips and the 7600 should be about the same p[rice as the 6600 depending on where you live, so no reason not to get that.

Its about $10 difference. Would you suggest i wait for cannonlake instead?

 

[Dunlop0078]

I would get a kaby lake 7600 with a H270 board. I believe you need a bios update on H270 boards to support skylake chips and the 7600 should be about the same p[rice as the 6600 depending on where you live, so no reason not to get that.

Its about $10 difference. Would you suggest i wait for cannonlake instead?

Well I would get a H170 board if you really want to save the 10 dollars and go with skylake, otherwise spend the money and get a 7600.

That's up to you, does your 2500k still perform well enough for you? If so then there is no reason not to wait for cannonlake, AMD ryzen looks promising too.

 

[HaoKuren23]

Thank you Dunlop0078!

 

[Dunlop0078]

No problem.

 

[SgtScream]

In my humble opinion, if your not getting inadequate performance, try to get more life out your oc'd 2500k.
There really isn't much of a difference in percentage to justify upgrading from a sandy to a kaby:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxGge0tR4IM
I have my 2500k clocked at 5ghz and I recently upgraded my graphics to a gtx 1070 reference and i'm getting well over 100 FPS, utra settings in games like doom and gta V. Though there is an occasional dip in fps, for the most part I'm happy with a smooth, stable gaming experience.
If you simply have to upgrade now due to inadequacies in performance, if I were you i'd upgrade to an intel core i7 7700k build. This way you get a significant increase in performance (Justifying the upgrade to a higher percentage of performance increase), giving you the ability to run games on highest graphical settings for a good solid 5 years. In your future i7 build, you also likely won't have to deal with potential bottlenecking issues when you decide to further upgrade your graphics card.