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Can you use a I5 6600K on a Z270 motherboard?

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Yes you can. Any Kaby Lake motherboard is backward compatible with Skylake

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As i am building a new rig and kabylake and the new and improved motherboards are out i was wondering if you could use a 6600K with a Z270 motherboard?

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Yes you can. Any Kaby Lake motherboard is backward compatible with Skylake

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Yes,

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19 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Yes,

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why not

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1 minute ago, PigWithAMustache said:

why not

Unless you use Kabylake, you can't take advantage of the extra features...

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1 minute ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

Unless you use Kabylake, you can't take advantage of the extra features...

Not like there is many new features anyways

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2 minutes ago, PigWithAMustache said:

why not

I just wasn't sure (I'm new to the whole PC building thing)

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1 minute ago, PigWithAMustache said:

Not like there is many new features anyways

The only reason to get a Z270 board over a Z170 (except for RGB LEDs) is Intel's Optane, which Skylake doesn't support...

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11 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

The only reason to get a Z270 board over a Z170 (except for RGB LEDs) is Intel's Optane, which Skylake doesn't support...

 

Well, there's AVX Offset and a few other things besides Intel Optane alone, but yeah, they all require Kaby Lake in order to use.  :D

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i ordered a asrock z270m pro4 because it has 2x M.2 and more pice lanes on the chipset. i plan on using it with my 6600k for gaming and 2x NVME drives and i was worried that z170 wouldn't have enough lanes for my 1080, 2 NVME M.2, and (hopefully soon) a faster internet connection.

could i have done all that with z170? and could i add, say, another NVME sad in a x16 slot?

the z270 chipset has 4 more pice lanes, that alone should be worth it for a $115 mobo.

 

 

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On 1/15/2017 at 6:29 PM, PCGuy_5960 said:

The only reason to get a Z270 board over a Z170 (except for RGB LEDs) is Intel's Optane, which Skylake doesn't support...

My reason was that Skylake was a lot cheaper than Kaby, and the z270 mobo i wanted was cheaper than the similar z170 line up (prettier too). So i saved some money, and i didn't take a performance hit...

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nice. i figure i can always get a baby lake chip later if i don't get a Zen chip. 8p

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