Haswell cpu with Skylake support motherboard

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Can a skylake supported motherboard pair with haswell cpu?
I am not intended to upgrade to skylake at the moment as I don't think it worth the money in terms of performance in gaming. I may want to get DDR4 ram before I get next generation cpu so I am thinking of upgrading the motherboard to z170.
My primary choice of motherboard is Asus ROG maximus VIII extreme to pair with i7 4790k 4.0ghz
Other detail of my rig:-
GPU - Asus GTX 780ti 3gb
Memory - 2x8gb DDR3 ram
 
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Intel resigned the chip which news a different chipset and avoid problems they made it so it s different pin layout and amount of pins (hence 1151).

-Different amount of PCIE lanes
-DDR4 support
-USB 3.1 support
-Better M.2 Support
-Lower Power requirements

Performance over the haswells is minimal if you are going from a i7 4770k or above. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference in gaming. Heck eve the almost 5 year old X79 (2011) platform seems little to no difference in FPS. Games are limited more on video cards than anything these days sense most game engines don't use more than 2 cores.
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Sorry, your MOBO is an LGA 1550, therefore you can't have a skylake processor, which is LGA 1151. You can buy another MOBO, just make sure the components are compatible with that MOBO.


Hope this helped! :)
 
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PC4Lyfe

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Exactly. You need a new MOBO, RAM, and CPU.

It might be a bit expensive, but trust me, its worth it.
 
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Intel resigned the chip which news a different chipset and avoid problems they made it so it s different pin layout and amount of pins (hence 1151).

-Different amount of PCIE lanes
-DDR4 support
-USB 3.1 support
-Better M.2 Support
-Lower Power requirements

Performance over the haswells is minimal if you are going from a i7 4770k or above. You wouldn't be able to tell the difference in gaming. Heck eve the almost 5 year old X79 (2011) platform seems little to no difference in FPS. Games are limited more on video cards than anything these days sense most game engines don't use more than 2 cores.
 
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