170 or 270

[Zaydoon]

I bought one of the  gigabyte z170 mobo with a Skylake processor last year. I want to upgrade to one of the kaby lake so I  need bios update to support that. Does the support mean that it will support all new although modest features of kaby lake or the support just means it can run it without conflicts.  Thanks

[Energycore]

Hi! What Skylake CPU do you already have?

[Zaydoon]

6500 to 7700

[Wolther]

Support just means run without conflicts as far as I know. I've read a few places that have said intel optane and 4K Netflix streaming is limited to z270

[Energycore]

2 minutes ago, Zaydoon said:

6500

Yeah I don't think you'd benefit at all from changing your motherboard. Just update the BIOS.

[Zaydoon]

1 minute ago, Energycore said:

Yeah I don't think you'd benefit at all from changing your motherboard. Just update the BIOS.

I want to upgrade to 7700

[Wolther]

1 minute ago, Zaydoon said:

I want to upgrade to 7700

An upgrade like that won't warrant a new motherboard. There's not a significant performance difference between skyl and kabyl. Zen will come out in a little bit too. So before buying any motherboard anyways I'd wait. It's coming in February 

[Energycore]

5 minutes ago, Zaydoon said:

I want to upgrade to 7700

Z170 would be fine. And get 7700K anyway, it costs the same (you can reuse the i5 stock cooler, or get something better)

[Zaydoon]

4 minutes ago, Wolther said:

An upgrade like that won't warrant a new motherboard. There's not a significant performance difference between skyl and kabyl. Zen will come out in a little bit too. So before buying any motherboard anyways I'd wait. It's coming in February 

But you know that every new product will need some tuning, driver correction and bios update. I prefer to wait until the whole product matures.

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, Zaydoon said:

But you know that every new product will need some tuning, driver correction and bios update. I prefer to wait until the whole product matures.

You can't tune a CPU arch with a BIOS update.

[Zaydoon]

2 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

You can't tune a CPU arch with a BIOS update.

I meant the whole Zen ecosystem

[TheRandomness]

1 minute ago, Zaydoon said:

I meant the whole Zen ecosystem

You still can't tune CPUs with a BIOS update though That's reserved for GPUs. Also, CPUs don't require drivers. This is talking about the Zen CPUs/all CPUs ever, and if you're referring to GPUs, those are codenamed Vega.

[Zaydoon]

3 minutes ago, TheRandomness said:

You still can't tune CPUs with a BIOS update though That's reserved for GPUs. Also, CPUs don't require drivers. This is talking about the Zen CPUs/all CPUs ever, and if you're referring to GPUs, those are codenamed Vega.

Dear I was responding to Wolther who prefers to wait for Zen processor. Thanks

[PCMasterDebater]

IF you're changing/upgrading from 6600 to 7600 then yes, you'll want to get the z270 mobo to support optane and 4k playback. Otherwise the upgrade will be less useful.

 

Whether its worth it or not is up to you. But everyone will chime in telling you "ITS A WASTE< THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE". Typically speaking, these are the jelly folk that can't afford frivolous purchases.

 

Upgrade if you want to. I did. I did it cause I wanted to.

[Zaydoon]

1 hour ago, Zaydoon said:

I bought one of the  gigabyte z170 mobo with a Skylake processor last year. I want to upgrade to one of the kaby lake so I  need bios update to support that. Does the support mean that it will support all new although modest features of kaby lake or the support just means it can run it without conflicts.  Thanks

Thank you all, now I have something to do next week and in February.?