Any reason to go Z170 over Z97

[toben67]

What benefits in gaming or in general does z170 have or z97. I assume it will be more expensive. Besides the updated motherboard designs (that Asrock board looks sexy AF waiting to see what ROG has.) Are there any real benefits?

[1Scotty1]

Hold on, let me go check my crystal ball...

[LongbowX404]

I think what Scotty was trying to say was that we don't really know enough yet about the Z170's to be able to answer that for you.

Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

[toben67]

Hold on, let me go check my crystal ball...

I think there is enough leaked information like what type of RAM its using and how many cores and threads and what not the 6th generation will have.

[Fluxx]

I'm considering upgrading just for the new motherboard designs, really like the new gigabyte g1 board.

[toben67]

I'm considering upgrading just for the new motherboard designs, really like the new gigabyte g1 board.

That actually looks really nice on top it using a high end sound card just wish that it was black and red instead of white and red.

[Sakkura]

If you're going Skylake, you get Z170. If you're going Haswell/Broadwell, you get Z97. Simple.

 

Unless you're one of the extremely few people who upgrade for motherboard features, in which case Z170 mostly adds more chipset PCIe lanes, allowing for a greater reliance on PCIe based storage.

 

Also, it probably won't be more expensive. Intel's pricing scheme rarely changes much.

[Fluxx]

That actually looks really nice on top it using a high end sound card just wish that it was black and red instead of white and red.

Yeah I would of preferred it to be just like white and blue but I was thinking of just painting all the red bits blue to match my system anyway.

[toben67]

If you're going Skylake, you get Z170. If you're going Haswell/Broadwell, you get Z97. Simple.

 

Unless you're one of the extremely few people who upgrade for motherboard features, in which case Z170 mostly adds more chipset PCIe lanes, allowing for a greater reliance on PCIe based storage.

 

Also, it probably won't be more expensive. Intel's pricing scheme rarely changes much.

So z170 is more of an upgraded z97 like the jump to z87 to z97 if your building a new pc its more of a why not kinda thing.

[ilikemacandpc]

Z170 will support skylake, z97 does not

[toben67]

If you're going Skylake, you get Z170. If you're going Haswell/Broadwell, you get Z97. Simple.

 

Unless you're one of the extremely few people who upgrade for motherboard features, in which case Z170 mostly adds more chipset PCIe lanes, allowing for a greater reliance on PCIe based storage.

 

Also, it probably won't be more expensive. Intel's pricing scheme rarely changes much.

 

Z170 will support skylake, z97 does not

What about broadwell on z97 I've seen it on newer high end laptops but not on desktops?

[Sakkura]

So z170 is more of an upgraded z97 like the jump to z87 to z97 if your building a new pc its more of a why not kinda thing.

 

It's more like the jump from Z77 to Z87. It comes with a new socket and thus is compatible with a completely different set of CPUs.

 

What about broadwell on z97 I've seen it on newer high end laptops but not on desktops?

 

Z97 is a desktop chipset. Broadwell works on Z97 but not on Z170, because Z170 comes with the new LGA 1151 socket. Broadwell, like Haswell, uses the old LGA 1150 socket.

[TheDrawingMil]

I say wait until further info comes. 2 weeks until Gamescom. More info will come out during that time as numerous articles have reported. And hopefully by Black Friday, enough reviews will be out to make a decision!

 

to put it into perspective, friend had an i7-3770k and then upgraded to an i7-4770k (I have no clue...). He got it right away without really waiting for reviews and was upset it wasnt overclocking even close to his old 5.0Ghz. Lesson learned.

 

 

Maybe I'll get one to upgrade my i5-650 Clarkdale

[NumLock21]

6700k oc

Http://wccftech.com/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-overclocked-52-ghz-air-cooling-135v/

[Sakkura]

6700k oc

Http://wccftech.com/intel-core-i7-6700k-skylake-overclocked-52-ghz-air-cooling-135v/

 

On a scale from WCCF to Adidos, how fake is that?

[Aphala]

On a scale from WCCF to Adidos, how fake is that?

Zimbabwe/10

[DarkSmith2]

Well even if this is a fake, overclocking is most likely not going to be worse then haswell/devils Canyon ;D

[XxRubyxX]

ehh ill stay with my x99 platform, 5gh at that speed is probably pushing the cpu to hell and back and the heat cant be good

[mrjordann]

A direct answer to the title of this post: no.

[ADZ_123_!"£]

There will be more ssd compatibility.