New Intel Boss will show up in Q2 2017.
http://wccftech.com/intel-x299-chipset-skylake-x-kaby-lake-x/
 
 
 

Nope. Not ready to upgrade yet. I'll wait another year.

I will upgrade or wait completely new socket.
If I miss LGA2066 my i7-5820K will still be enough for games and all graphic cards.
But I would like Skylake-X. Somewhere in 2018, 5 months after launch just to check is everything OK.
Now priority is graphic card and I wait M.2 to arrive in Hungary to buy Samsung 960 PRO.
I will probably finish with EVGA GTX1080 FTW Hybrid.

Skylake-X is expected to support 48 PCIe 3.0 lanes for multi-GPU/enthusiast systems with add-on cards for RAID, 10GbE, etc. The Kaby Lake-X PCH itself has 24 PCIe 3.0 lanes, 10 x USB 3.0, and 8 x USB 2.0 - but the price of the Skylake-X is expected to reach around $1500, or more.

Read more: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/54773/intels-x299-platform-support-skylake-kaby-lake/index.html

Intel is the Battlefield/CoD of socket releases. Get a new one every year now.

I really want to go down to a z series board but the whole 24 pcie lanes kills me. 2x gpu=16 lanes, m.2 ssd=4+16, m.2 wifi=2 ir 4+20 and thats 22-24 lanes leaving you with extra which isnt enough if you want another m.2 or sata express ssd.

With today consumers, especially the ones the z and x series is marketed to, the demand for more and faster storage. Intel nonsense to giving only 20 or 24 pcie lanes. Prosumers thay use z series now need 40 lanes and I feel the professional/extreme users of the x series need 60+. I am no trchnical expert and it might be possible but I feel with technology advancements intel can do this.

 
I think I have a couple more years to wait.

I like the idea that Intel is effectively porting i7-7700K into the HEDT platform via the Kaby Lake-X option, siphoning the i7 line up as entirely HEDT territory, as if the i5 unlocked option will vanish (meaning, i5-7600K is the last unlocked i5 in the Z-platform).  It would finally mean that Intel can call HEDT the only platform for overclockers.

It should have happened long ago though, when AMD had nothing for a while, it would have made more sense.  With Zen nearby, I suppose Intel doesn't think they'll lose too many enthusiasts from the i5 on down to AMD.

The problem with skylake-x it doesn't support pci-e 4.0 so any card close to 2 times faster than the titanxp could bottleneck
 
https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Titan-X-Performance-PCI-E-3-0-x8-vs-x16-851/
https://www.reddit.com/r/...pcie_30_16x16_vs_16x8/

Intel keep same socket and same chipset 3 years for High End Platform.
I think 10 cores CPU will cost 1500$, but always will be option for around 400$ and 550$.
We could keep same memory on beginning and later to replace. Investment should be only processor if we sell X99 motherboard and CPU.
Or even better investment will be only motherboard when I sell mobo and CPU I will buy successor of i7-6850K. But motherboard is again investment around 450-500$.
Only if Rampage VI Gene show up for 300$ example.