New Intel CPU and Motherboards

[Someamericanguy]

When are the new Intel Skylake CPUs supposed to hit the market? And since they are socket LGA 1151, won't new motherboards with that socket have to come out? Wondering if I'll need to upgrade my MOBO along with CPU.

[MegaDave91]

August timeframe

 

New boards have already been announced. Yes, you will have to buy a new board since it is a different socket.

[Untouchable]

new socket, new board. so yea, youll have to buy a new board.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Here's what you'll need if you're upgrading from anything that's not X99 in which case it'd be a downgrade-

New CPU
New Motherboard - Z170, Socket 1151
New RAM - DDR4

[iHardware Shelden]

Whoooooooo.... Not worth it. Unless the performance is anything amazing compared to Hasewell the only reason to really upgrade would to jump on the latest and greatest train with DDR4 and other little bells and whistles that tbh will probably be available in expansion card forms also. Hope they don't have the socket issue like ASUS has with x99. I guess we will see

Edit: What platform you coming from and what are you planning on doing with the system?

[Someamericanguy]

Whoooooooo.... Not worth it. Unless the performance is anything amazing compared to Hasewell the only reason to really upgrade would to jump on the latest and greatest train with DDR4 and other little bells and whistles that tbh will probably be available in expansion card forms also. Hope they don't have the socket issue like ASUS has with x99. I guess we will see

Edit: What platform you coming from and what are you planning on doing with the system?

Sorry for the late response.

My current build is:

Z97-A ASUS Mobo

16GB Gskill DDR3 RAM

i7-4790K at 4.0 GHz (not overclocked)

CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler

SLI Gigabyte Gaming G1 GTX 980Ti

250GB Samsung SSD

1TB Western Black HDD

NZXT Phantom Full Tower case

 

I plan on getting an h100 watercool and overclocking my CPU. I will only upgrade if the next generation of CPU/Mobos are a good step ahead. I do have an upgrade bug though..

*and overclocking the GPU, they have amazing cooling.

[NumLock21]

Sorry for the late response.

My current build is:

Z97-A ASUS Mobo

16GB Gskill DDR3 RAM

i7-4790K at 4.0 GHz (not overclocked)

CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo CPU cooler

SLI Gigabyte Gaming G1 GTX 980Ti

250GB Samsung SSD

1TB Western Black HDD

NZXT Phantom Full Tower case

 

I plan on getting an h100 watercool and overclocking my CPU. I will only upgrade if the next generation of CPU/Mobos are a good step ahead. I do have an upgrade bug though..

*and overclocking the GPU, they have amazing cooling.

For your current build, no need for Skylake unless you really want to run DDR4 and multiple m.2 drives. It will have 20 pcie gen 3 lanes coming directly from the Z170 chipset. This has nothing to do with the 16 gen 3 lanes from the cpu to run your graphic cards. Current Z97 and X99 only have 8 pcie gen 2 lanes from their chipsets.

[typographie]

And since they are socket LGA 1151, won't new motherboards with that socket have to come out? Wondering if I'll need to upgrade my MOBO along with CPU.

 

Yes indeed, you'll need an LGA-1151 motherboard with one of the new chipsets (H170 or Z170) for Skylake. Some are starting to be revealed already:

http://www.tomshardware.com/news/msi-z170a-gaming-motherboards,29641.html

(Side note: MSI's marketing… *facepalm*)

 

Skylake is rumored to have dual support for DDR4 and DDR3L. So it's possible you may need new memory as well, depending on how well Skylake's IMC tolerates current 1.5 V DDR3.