This is something I've had in mind for about 5 months. It's not that long I know, but lately I've wanted a more permanent setup than my macbook air to get back into PC gaming. It's been too long. I finally ordered the about half the parts just this Wednesday and first to arrive was the motherboard and CPU. It's called Whiteout because the case is white and awesome.
The purpose for this build is to handle all of my coursework (I take uni classes online), and double as a decent 1080p gaming PC. One thing to note is that I won't be upgrading this PC anytime soon, so I needed something that would serve me well in it's present state for at least 2-3 years.
Choosing parts was tricky. I initially had the perfect Z97 overclockable system planned out by the end of July and then Skylake launched. Almost wrote Skynet there 
Is Skylake worth it? Yes I think, but not as an upgrade from an existing, still perfectly capable Z97 based PC, that would been pointless for only like ~10% more performance. Unless you need the other upgrades as well. Like DDR4 dimms, M.2 at a more reasonable price. Something like that right? However, in a brand new PC, it could work. So I revised my build.
NOTE: I live in Switzerland. I'm buying domestically because I would have to pay significant customs tax on imports valued over CHF 300. So I only used pcpartpicker as a reference. You can imagine the total price being around 10% more in swiss francs, roughly speaking.
Pictures:
CPU and Motheboard arrived yesterday. I installed the CPU in the motherboard, admired it because it's my first motherboard, then put it back in the box with the ESD safe bag. No point keeping it outside, having it collect dust. More pictures coming soon.