Skylake will require a new Socket

[ShaunB-91]

Skylake will prob be my next upgrade since i'm still on good ol' sandybridge. Not that it's struggling as of yet

Either way I'll probably pick up a tasty Asus board next (full ATX), DDR4 and the latest GPU (or two, I'd love to see two in my rig but its expensive).

 

[WillSK]

Either way I'll probably pick up a tasty Asus board next (full ATX), DDR4 and the latest GPU (or two, I'd love to see two in my rig but its expensive).

Yeah man i'm 100% with you on that. Gonna hold out on my next PC to buy EXACTLY what I want

 

[Zoot]

I didn't ever expect it NOT to require a new socket given Intel's history. The Z97 boards were only ever to support Haswell and whatever the desktop version of Broadwell ends up looking like.

Me... I'm getting some serious biting of the upgrade bug now to upgrade my CPU and Motherboard, but I think I'll wait off until Skylake rather than wasting a huge sum on an X99 setup.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

Its like omg Z77 was 1155, then Z87 & Z97 is 1150 and with these new CPU is socket 1151 they keep jumping around with the socket numbers imo would have been better if they went with like 1125 or something or even 1100, thats just my 2 cents

This has always been a gripe with Intel and a good selling point for AMD. AMD sticks with one socket for YEARS!

 

[Permafrost]

yeah.... i'm going to wait till Cannonlake or later to upgrade if i need a mobo change at the same time..... but for once it's not going to be a sabertooth that i upgrade to....

 

[MrKambo]

It's not really a massive deal, Intel would only change sockets once limitations have been reached, and me, when I upgrade I like to upgrade cpu, mobo and ram at the same time, just always what I've done.

Although I think they should reevaluate the naming scheme the socket numbers are way too confusing!