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Good day, 

 

Im currently using an i7-6700k on a z170 krait. Planning to get a new board as I want more data ports and I guess aesthetics. For some reason its hard to find z170 boards and most searches spit out z270. I kinda like the looks and port count of the Asrock z270 extreme 4 board. The specs say it would work but will it work out of the box? Do I have to do something before? Also pros and cons?

 

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It will work and work out of the box too. No issues that I can see doing that.

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2 minutes ago, Lenidar said:

Good day, 

 

Im currently using an i7-6700k on a z170 krait. Planning to get a new board as I want more data ports and I guess aesthetics. For some reason its hard to find z170 boards and most searches spit out z270. I kinda like the looks and port count of the Asrock z270 extreme 4 board. The specs say it would work but will it work out of the box? Do I have to do something before? Also pros and cons?

 

Thanks

I think you wouldn't have as much pcie lanes as a 7700k but it should work out of the box as far as compatibility as it was made after the 6700k while the 7700k was made after the z170 boards meaning z170 boards need compatibility updates to the bios to support it. So the short answer is it would work out of the box.

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2 minutes ago, Lurick said:

It will work and work out of the box too. No issues that I can see doing that.

Alright cool, maybe just paranoid about it. Because I read somewhere that it will work after a bios update 

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7 minutes ago, Lenidar said:

 

Waste of money, what do you mean more data ports?

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2 minutes ago, Lenidar said:

Alright cool, maybe just paranoid about it. Because I read somewhere that it will work after a bios update 

Thats if you have a 7700k and want to use a z170, the 7700k was released after the z170 so theres no way the bios can support the new chip

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Just now, Brooksie359 said:

I think you wouldn't have as much pcie lanes as a 7700k but it should work out of the box as far as compatibility as it was made after the 6700k while the 7700k was made after the z170 boards meaning z170 boards need compatibility updates to the bios to support it. So the short answer is it would work out of the box.

I don't think(?) I need as much PCiE lanes, I don't plan on using 2 GPUs. Ohhh so it's the z170 boards that need the bios update. Other than optain, what other features would I lose

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4 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

I think you wouldn't have as much pcie lanes as a 7700k but it should work out of the box as far as compatibility as it was made after the 6700k while the 7700k was made after the z170 boards meaning z170 boards need compatibility updates to the bios to support it. So the short answer is it would work out of the box.

They both got 16 pcie lanes, motherboard does not change that.

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1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

Waste of money, what do you mean more data ports?

Did I say data ports? Might have autocorrected. Meant Sata ports

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1 minute ago, Lenidar said:

Did I say data ports? Might have autocorrected. Meant Sata ports

You can just get a cheap PCI-e Sata adapter instead of an entire new motherboard? As you're buying into a dead platform.

If you wanted to change platforms I'd highly suggest getting on AM4 so you have an upgrade path for a while and access to up to 8 core CPUs.

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2 minutes ago, Streetguru said:


If you wanted to change platforms I'd highly suggest getting on AM4 so you have an upgrade path for a while and access to up to 8 core CPUs.

it's like every post you do, you manage to turn it into a ''you should buy a ryzen'' post isn't it?! you forgot to mention that the ryzen is soldered on ihs BTW... :P

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1 minute ago, i_build_nanosuits said:

it's like every post you do, you manage to turn it into a ''you should buy a ryzen'' post isn't it?! you forgot to mention that the ryzen is soldered on ihs BTW... :P

I just don't see the point in buying an entirely new motherboard when it offers no major advantages. If intel didn't artificially lock older gens out of Z370 it might make some sense to buy into that platform

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1 minute ago, Streetguru said:

I just don't see the point in buying an entirely new motherboard when it offers no major advantages.

I also did say I wanted to change Motherboards because of aesthetics. And it has more front header ports for anything over my current board. So... Yeah... Nothing against Ryzen though. If it came out when I was upgrading, would have gotten that.

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2 minutes ago, Lenidar said:

I also did say I wanted to change Motherboards because of aesthetics. And it has more front header ports for anything over my current board. So... Yeah... Nothing against Ryzen though. If it came out when I was upgrading, would have gotten that.

Unless you stare at your computer nightly longing for it's embrace I don't think aesthetics are a good reason to waste money on a non-upgrade...

It's like $20 USD Max for a PCI-e Sata adapter, or whatever the equivalent for a 4 port Sata card is where you're at.

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18 minutes ago, MkaiL said:

They both got 16 pcie lanes, motherboard does not change that.

I though they uped the cpu pcie lanes with kabylake? Was it just chipset lanes that they increased? I am almost positive that pcie lanes increased from 6700k with z170 to 7700k with z270 so it's either the cpu lanes or chipset lanes that increased. 

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Just now, Brooksie359 said:

I though they uped the cpu pcie lanes with kabylake? Was it just chipset lanes that they increased? I am almost positive that pcie lanes increased from 6700k with z170 to 7700k with z270 so it's either the cpu lanes or chipset lanes that increased. 

They increased chipset lanes from 20 to 24 IIRC

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3 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

They increased chipset lanes from 20 to 24 IIRC

Ok that makes sense. Well I guess they would get the extra 4 lanes with the 6700k as well. 

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