If you're not interested in spending the money to get top-tier performance, there's absolutely no reason to buy Skylake right now. The Intel 750 is NVMe, the n

If you're not interested in spending the money to get top-tier performance, there's absolutely no reason to buy Skylake right now. The Intel 750 is NVMe, the next generation of storage interface. The 750 can outperform a SATA SSD by 10x in reads, and even versus an outstanding SATA SSD will get you at least a 4x increase. Load times are actually pretty important for games, and after a GPU I don't think there's anywhere you could spend extra that would give you more quality of life. You'd already be looking at $250 for a similarly-sized high-performance SATA SSD, so the price difference isn't that large. You aren't getting high performance even as far as SATA for $100.