Wait for Kaby Lake?

[Groog]

So I've been out of the loop for a while. By the end of the year I'm looking to build a new high end gaming PC, as future proofed as I can make it.

I had figured I would build it around a Sky Lake CPU, but a little research tells me that Kaby Lake might be released in Q3.

Do you guys think it is worth waiting for it? Or would you suggest something else?

 

[Groog]

Thanks for the responses!

I'm planning on getting together a 4K gaming rig. Likely a GTX1080 or 2 (I won't have patience for the inevitable 1080Ti). It felt to me like the i7 920 might be getting a bit long in the tooth for just now. However, you guys seem to think there is some life in it?

I presume 4K gaming is all GPU based, will an 8 year old CPU be the bottleneck I think it will be, or will it cope?


And to summarise:
Broadwell-E is coming v soon and is likely the last X99 but should last a long time due to the number of cores?
Sky Lake is Z170 with Kaby Lake succeeding it, likely a small upgrade (how many cores?)
Cannon Lake will be a different architecture (i.e. needing a different mobo chipset?).

I've never really considered an AMD CPU, should I?

 

[Groog]

Kabylake will be backwards compatible with the Z170 (and other '100' series chipsets) but it will also release with the new '200' series chipset (Union Point) which you will want to buy to get the most from Kaby Lake

That's new to me. Interesting.

I'm in no rush to get the new rig together, I'm sure I can wait until at least Computex and see if Intel releases any more information then.

Until then I think I'm more tempted by Broadwell-E than Sky Lake right now.