http://www.kitguru.net/components/c...ntels-upcoming-kaby-lake-cpus-surface-online/
Looks like you'll need a new motherboard to make the most of Kabylake! (apparently Z170 will still be supported)
good news looks like Intel will up the PCI-E lane count to 24
(from the chipset?)
bad news depending whether this leak is
1) true
and
2) does not indicate Intel doing some new shenanigans with PCI-E lanes
not that much of a big deal as GPU's are fed from the PCI-E lanes supplied by the CPU (16 currently) and so this wont help you run bigger/ faster SLI setups? (what with the existing 20 PCI-E lanes from the Z170 chipset looking to be quite sufficient for all your non GPU requirements)
A cynic my suggest that Intel know that Cannonlakes going to be a long time coming and they are conjuring up new ways to drive sales (of CPU's and motherboard chipsets) by offering new products with only small differentiation from what came before.....
Still nothing to suggest you'll be getting more than four cores with your consumer socket CPU this time around.
Looks like you'll need a new motherboard to make the most of Kabylake! (apparently Z170 will still be supported)
good news looks like Intel will up the PCI-E lane count to 24
(from the chipset?)
bad news depending whether this leak is
1) true
and
2) does not indicate Intel doing some new shenanigans with PCI-E lanes
not that much of a big deal as GPU's are fed from the PCI-E lanes supplied by the CPU (16 currently) and so this wont help you run bigger/ faster SLI setups? (what with the existing 20 PCI-E lanes from the Z170 chipset looking to be quite sufficient for all your non GPU requirements)
A cynic my suggest that Intel know that Cannonlakes going to be a long time coming and they are conjuring up new ways to drive sales (of CPU's and motherboard chipsets) by offering new products with only small differentiation from what came before.....
Still nothing to suggest you'll be getting more than four cores with your consumer socket CPU this time around.
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