Intel Skylake Z170 Motherboards: A Quick Look at 55+ New Products

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• AndyTri - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link

  In the specifications it states: M.2, SATA and SATAe ports maximum support 1x M.2_PCIe + 6x SATAs or 1x M.2_SATA + 1x M.2_PCIe + 4x SATAs. Please refer to page 19 for
  M.2 slots with examples of various combination possibilities. On page 19 however it gives a lot more configuration options including 2x M.2_PCIe + 4x SATAs

• althaz - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link

  I'm tempted by the Skylake i7 and the Asus Z170-Deluxe, but I need to see some real motherboard reviews first. Obviously that's not exactly feasible for this sort of thing where many motherboards are released all at once - but hopefully those reviews are coming :).
  
  Especially those POST tests, it's silly, but they make a huge impact on my purchasing decisions.

• Ian Cutress - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link

  Hopefully I'll squeeze one or two out before IDF. Pretty sure five or six samples arrived in the run up to launch, I need to open a few boxes.

• meacupla - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link

  I guess we're going to be waiting a while for MSI mITX and mATX boards to show up?
  
  Currently, there's only one mATX board that supports SLI, and it's a super expensive one from Asus.

• sweeper765 - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link

  Do you still lose sata ports when using m.2?

• Mikemk - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link

  What is SSIC?

• mrlithium - Friday, August 7, 2015 - link

  "Super Speed Inter Chip", A standard concerned with low power, and signaling between chips on the motherboard, while still using USB 3.0 drivers. Something for motherboard makers to be concerned with.
  
  http://www.design-reuse.com/articles/34710/low-pow...

• trsqd - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link

  Am I the only one here dreaming of a Mini-ATX board with a Xeon ( I know there's none yet for 1151, but think of Xeon-D ) or i5/7 with Iris Pro graphics ( not everyone is a hardcore gamer ) , with at least 2x M.2 (x4) slots ( imagine SM951 in Raid 0 ) and which can take at least 64GB RAM ? It would be my dream machine...what an amazing host that would be. Or even an Intel NUC with 2xM.2...

• maofthnun - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link

  Does anyone know if any of these boards support vt-d? Or is it only gonna be Q170?

• sweeper765 - Thursday, August 6, 2015 - link

  Asus Z170-A question:
  If i populate the M.2 slot with pcie ssd would that consume any of the regular sata ports?
  Manual says m.2 is shared with sata express but what about the 2 sata ports? Can they be used with m.2 at the same time?