Looking at upgrading a few parts but not sure abotu my MB

robwigan · 11 Jan 2016 at 14:09

Hi

I currently have the below motherboard with an i5a670k (not overclocked)

I want to put some form of i7 and 16gb of ram in there due to what I want to start doing on my pc in the future. Does the mb support skylake?

Gigabyte Z97 GA-Z97P-D3

or will I have to go with haswell ?

stulid · 11 Jan 2016 at 16:18

For skylake you need a Z170 chipset etc (socket 1151) board.

You board will take a i7 haswell or devils canyon CPU.

robwigan · 11 Jan 2016 at 17:09

Thanks for that so I will need a haswell/devil canyon

Am I going to miss out much in terms of performance if I don't have a skylake?

stulid · 11 Jan 2016 at 17:39

Nope, its not a big jump forward.