A motherboard for the 5th or 6th generation intel CPUs
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Z97/H97 socket 1150 should be compatible with broadwell and X99 should be compatible with broadwell-e. No guarantee for each and every board though. Skylake will have different socket and currently no mobo/chipset is available yet.
Why? Socket 1151 skylake wont outperform haswell-e and you still have broadwell-e that will be compatible although i dont see the need to upgrade haswell-e cpu that soon. Performance increase per generation is only a few % and haswell-e is plenty powerful...
Based on the current information they will feature the same stock base speed and slightly lower boost speed capping at 4.2Ghz. If they really follow the 10% enhancement trend this results in identical performance with the only stock improvements of supporting DDR4 RAM.
On the flip side they can handle the same 95watts of current gen i7 CPU's which will mean they likely overclock better due to lower power requirements. This is tricky though, we have no idea how it can handle higher core speeds with their memory controller.
I'm running the 4770. So I will be waiting until the Cannonlake before I make the change.
On the flip side they can handle the same 95watts of current gen i7 CPU's which will mean they likely overclock better due to lower power requirements. This is tricky though, we have no idea how it can handle higher core speeds with their memory controller.
I'm running the 4770. So I will be waiting until the Cannonlake before I make the change.
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I'd go with a Z97 or a H97 socket 1150, or something designed to also be compatible with server grade CPUs such as the Intel Xeon E5/E7
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