WHY DOES THE Z97 mother boards not work with Skylake

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Only if you personally are chasing the NextBestThing.

Not everyone changes CPU's every year. Not even any significant percentage.
And those that do, also want a new motherboard with new 'features'.
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TJ Hooker

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Intel tends to use the same socket (and therefore maintain mobo compatibility) for 2 generations, the first one being a new architecture, followed by a die shrink. Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge. Haswell and Broadwell (although I seem to remember Broadwell support with 8 series chipsets being iffy at best). Skylake is a new architecture, with a new socket. It remains to be seen how this pattern will play out now that Intel has abandoned their traditional tick-tock (new architecture, then die shrink) pattern. Normally, it would be assumed that Cannonlake (die shrink) would work with Skylake chipsets, but with the introduction of Kaby Lake in between, nobody can say for sure.

But long story short, no one but you was expecting Skylake to work on Z97 boards.
 
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yeah when Haswell was the new kid of the block. Intel changes the socket type every other generation. So Haswell and the aborted Broadwell would have work with Z97. But Skylake is out now so the new LGA socket is 1151. That's the way its always been.
 
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Only if you personally are chasing the NextBestThing.

Not everyone changes CPU's every year. Not even any significant percentage.
And those that do, also want a new motherboard with new 'features'.
 
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