Skylake Clockspeeds and benchmarks!

Greebo · 1 Aug 2015 at 08:32

The whole range of asus z170 boards to have over clocking sockets with extra pins?

http://www.kitguru.net/components/m...1151-o-c-socket-on-new-intel-z170-mainboards/

Strange move. I though asus would just fit them to their high end boards to differentiate them from the lower end

Dave2150 · 1 Aug 2015 at 15:27

Greebo said:
The whole range of asus z170 boards to have over clocking sockets with extra pins?

http://www.kitguru.net/components/m...1151-o-c-socket-on-new-intel-z170-mainboards/

Strange move. I though asus would just fit them to their high end boards to differentiate them from the lower end

Judging by the X99 OC socket, it's purely a marketting gimmick IMO - only those running insane volts through their CPU when cooling with LN2 can see any benefits. So useless for 99%.

I'll still get a Asus board, regardless, though this is mainly due to build quality, the industry's most comprehensive QVL, reliability and well laid out UEFI etc.

Teuton · 1 Aug 2015 at 16:05

Mustang said:
This seems like the way to go, get hold of everything you can now, at least that's my plan.

I'd like to get my DDR4 in advance, but I'm a little apprehensive at the apparent lack of mATX z170 boards that have been shown, as I'll definitely be building in an mATX shell.

Has anyone heard anything about mATX z170?

CJonny · 1 Aug 2015 at 16:56

Teuton said:
I'd like to get my DDR4 in advance, but I'm a little apprehensive at the apparent lack of mATX z170 boards that have been shown, as I'll definitely be building in an mATX shell.

Has anyone heard anything about mATX z170?

The mATX boards don't seem to be to popular anymore. From looking around there don't seem to be any coming out with the launch but rather further down the line. I'm personally going for a mitx board with the Asus Gene as it stall has lot of features on it.

smilertoo · 1 Aug 2015 at 17:44

shame, m-atx seems a nice halfway level...m-itx is too small, only 2 ram slots.

Orangey · 1 Aug 2015 at 18:11

http://www.legitreviews.com/ecs-z170-claymore-and-z170-blade-motherboards-shown-at-computex_165191

If you can stand the cringey marketing...

BTW that's the mobo used for one of the benches we saw recently (the Claymore).

FadeXIII · 1 Aug 2015 at 18:18

Further details on the MSI line up:

http://wccftech.com/msi-z170a-motherboards-round-up-xpower-gaming-gaming-m9-ack-krait-gaming/

djxput · 1 Aug 2015 at 22:40

btw Isnt skylake MBs supposed to offer ddr3 support? got some decent ddr3 ram Id like to keep once I upgrade.

Dave2150 · 1 Aug 2015 at 23:07

djxput said:
btw Isnt skylake MBs supposed to offer ddr3 support? got some decent ddr3 ram Id like to keep once I upgrade.

There will be some DDR3 motherboards for Skylake - though they'll only support DDR3L - which is low voltage DDR3 (1.35V).

If your current DDR3 is normal voltage stuff, then I think you're out of luck.

Teuton · 1 Aug 2015 at 23:39

CJonny said:
The mATX boards don't seem to be to popular anymore. From looking around there don't seem to be any coming out with the launch but rather further down the line. I'm personally going for a mitx board with the Asus Gene as it stall has lot of features on it.

That really sucks, I hope there is at least one...

mITX is nice but only two DIMM slots and a single PCI lane doesn't offer the option to build an extreme PC really.

Is buying z97+4790k a bad option right now? Will their prices drop?

Orangey · 1 Aug 2015 at 23:41

I linked a z170 mATX above

Here is an EVGA one for X99:

http://fudzilla.net/news/motherboards/38368-evga-launches-new-x99-micro2-motherboard

M.2 and USB 3.1 type c

Teuton · 2 Aug 2015 at 00:02

Double Post

Teuton · 2 Aug 2015 at 00:04

Oh sorry I missed that.

Never heard of ECS, are they good?

That X99 board looks sexy as hell - especially as I am after an all-black theme. I fear for my wallet with an X99 build though, especially with a newly released mobo from EVGA.

djxput · 2 Aug 2015 at 12:08

Dave2150 said:
There will be some DDR3 motherboards for Skylake - though they'll only support DDR3L - which is low voltage DDR3 (1.35V).

If your current DDR3 is normal voltage stuff, then I think you're out of luck.

ahh just checked mines 1.6v so that wont work for keeping the ram

AthlonXP1800 · 2 Aug 2015 at 12:21

Teuton said:
Never heard of ECS, are they good?

Yes ECS are good, ordered ECS K7S5A Socket A motherboard back in 2001 for my uncle. Really very impressed build quality and stability, still worked 10 years on until uncle switched to laptop and sold off desktop PC in 2011.

Lots of UK retailers stocked ECS motherboards as it was very popular 10 years ago and ECS is 5th largest PC motherboard manufacturer in the world for years but however ECS pulled out of UK market years ago is a mystery to me.

ZeroG · 2 Aug 2015 at 12:24

As far as I remember ECS were a budget brand. Firm and reliable but nothing fancy.

Dave2150 · 3 Aug 2015 at 10:26

Skylake retail packaging leaked!

Damn sexy packaging this time :eek:

6700k code = L519B744 - so made in Malaysia in May - this should be there will be plenty of stock, since they've been in production for many weeks

Mustang · 3 Aug 2015 at 10:36

AthlonXP1800 · 3 Aug 2015 at 10:41

Sexy packages.

Odd huge packaging for a CPU with no cooler.

HD Graphics 530? :confused:

Sound like a massive downgraded over HD Graphics 4400.

Intel should called it HD Graphics 6300!

Mei · 3 Aug 2015 at 10:55

has there been much listed about the speed of m.2 on these new motherboards?

i see some have 2x m.2 slots but i would like to know the speed
are they still going to be very limited on lanes?