z87 vs z97

[ebobde]

Basically I repair Motherboards and ive recently got two z87 boards, i currently have the asus maximus vii ranger (z97) (i dont like it btw ASUS software is poop imo) and i was looking at the difference in chipsets because my last board was Z68 i completley skipped the chips in between z68 and z97 and apart from m.2 support I couldn't find much of a difference in terms of features and supports, for someone running a heavily overclocked i5 4690k 8gb of ddr3 (no fancy overclock) a gtx 970 and normal sata hdds and ssds is there any difference? observable or otherwise?

[Samsterstorm]

Not really! Z97 may over clock better then Z87, but that's the silicone lottery!  Z97 will have more features and much better Devils Canyon support

[ebobde]

Not really! Z97 may over clock better then Z87, but that's the silicone lottery!  Z97 will have more features and much better Devils Canyon support

 

so not really but actually yes really?

[JamGorby]

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m.2, SATA express, and out of the box Haswell refresh support. That's pretty much it. There's no evidence that z97 overclocks better than z87 that I'm aware of. 

Some z87 boards may need a bios update to support refresh chips which would require a compatible non-refresh CPU to do. Something to bare in mind. 

 

[ebobde]

m.2, SATA express, and out of the box Haswell refresh support. That's pretty much it. There's no evidence that z97 overclocks better than z87 that I'm aware of. 

Some z87 boards may need a bios update to support refresh chips which would require a compatible non-refresh CPU to do. Something to bare in mind. 

 

i thought as much

[vembutech]

There in mot much difference here have a look at this z87 vs z97.

[ebobde]

There in mot much difference here have a look at this z87 vs z97.

that's the article I read that made me ask this on here

[ProKoN]

z97 offers 4x additional pcie gen 2.0 lanes for m.2 \ sata express support

 

the other differences \ similarities were mentioned in post #4