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

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• mrlithium - Friday, August 7, 2015 - link

  I was interested until i read " 2 SATA3" <- not gonna cut it buddy.

• Diagrafeas - Friday, October 9, 2015 - link

  Addition...
  2 SATA Express (shared with 2 m.2 which are shared with 2 PCIE x16(x4 electrical)) and obviously 4 more SATA Ports.
  So you could use 2x 1m.2/or 1PCIEx4/or 1SATA Express/or 2 SATA at time.

• Etern205 - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link

  Anyone notice some of those boards have extra pins on their socket.

• Eidigean - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link

  The most appealing of all of these is actually the ASUS Z170-WS. No SATA-Express, 8x8x8x8 PCIe, 2 M.2 slots in RAID, a dedicated U.2 slot for a larger external drive, dual NICs, (hopefully) an Alpine Ridge USB 3.1 solution, and no Molex connector for PCIe power; instead a 3x2 12v header.

• Gigaplex - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link

  I don't think the Asus has Alpine Ridge. The article mentioned Gigabyte has an exclusive right now.

• mrlithium - Friday, August 7, 2015 - link

  i watched a review on Asus's youtube channel PCDIY where JJ said that I think the Z170-Deluxe would support thunderbolt with the addon card, which the board has to be designed for, so they must have decided that making people buy the add-on card would be a better option

• N_rman - Friday, August 7, 2015 - link

  Definitely the most appealing, i agree. The only one that's even close is the Asrock 7+, with 3 32gb/s M.2 ports.

• Deders - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link

  Any news as to weather Kaby Lake will be supported on these sockets? Trying to decide whether to go all out on a mobo that will last me a long time or get something midrange and upgrade again next year.
  
  http://www.legitreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
  
  This slide seems to indicate that it will be but has there been any other confirmation?

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

  That source isn't exactly trustworthy. Don't believe everything you see on the internet, some just post/repost it without verification in 'the interests of discussion'!
  
  As for the Kaby Lane compatibility, we haven't had confirmation but it would follow Intel's strategy.

• Uxi - Wednesday, August 5, 2015 - link

  The details about the 2nd M.2 slot being SATA only on the MSI M7 is incorrect, if I read the manual correctly. 2 PCIe 3.0 x4 SSD's can be used together with 4 SATA drives.