Skylake or Haswell Refresh?

[Stryder]

I was planning on upgrading my FX-6300/R9 290 to an i7-4790k and a GTX980, but since Skylake is releasing next year, would it make more sense to wait for that? And wait for Nvidia's next line of GPUs or a 980 Ti? I'm not exactly in a rush to upgrade, but I'll have plenty of money to spend come January/February.

[Oshino Shinobu]

To be honest, no one really knows how far off Skylake is. It might get delayed. I'd go for Haswell-R but wait for either the 300 series or Nvidia's better Maxwell chips. 

[79wjd]

Does your current system not offer the performance you need/want? 

 

yes? --> upgrade

no? --> wait 

 

I would however stick with your 290 for now though and wait for the 390/980Ti/1080. 

[Stryder]

The FX6300 isn't doing as well as I want, and planned on crossfiring 290s if not going nvidia and the FX6300 barely handles my r9 290.

[bomerr]

See if you can find some black friday deals on a 5820k and a cheap x99 mobo like a ud4.

 

haswell-e > haswell-refresh. 

[79wjd]

See if you can find some black friday deals on a 5820k and a cheap x99 mobo with a ud4.

 

haswell-e > haswell-refresh. 

For 99.9999999% of games they're identical (assuming the 5820k can reach the clock speeds of a 4690k/4790k).