200-series motherboard ETA

[rasterian]

Dear motherboard experts,

As I plan to invest in building a new gig, there is a question that keeps coming back. Should I hold off until new motherboards with Intel's 200-series Kaby Lake chipset arrive? Are we looking at an August release timeframe as the 100-series last year or is the ETA unknown?

While I am happy to go with a Skylake today (given the small IPC gains most expect from Kaby Lake), mini-ITX boards with both Intel USB 3.1/TB3 and Intel NICs are hard to come by (I think Asus offers the only and expensive option). A standard 200-series mini-ITX board, which should reliably integrate both and be good to go for a while, would be perfect.

Cheers!

 

[Burpo]

CES Jan. 2017
"..the leaked roadmap mentions the Kaby Lake “PCH-H” chipset (200-series) that goes into quality sampling in August. Cool features that this chipset will bring include support for 10 USB 3.0 ports, six SATA 3 ports, and 24 PCI-e 3.0 lanes. The new Skylake 4+4e processor family slated to launch later this year will supposedly only be compatible with this specific chipset."


http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/intel-roadmap-processors/

 

[rasterian]

Thank you for sharing. So seems they are going to launch later in the year than the Skylake 100-series. 2016 Q4 at the earliest, probably 2017 Q1. Not worth the wait for me.

R.

 

[Sweepr]

Thank you for sharing. So seems they are going to launch later in the year than the Skylake 100-series. 2016 Q4 at the earliest, probably 2017 Q1. Not worth the wait for me.

R.

Yes, last I heard was October. Only reason to wait would be possible Cannonlake-S support, if you're planning to keep this machine for a very long time (without replacing the motherboard).

 

[nenforcer]

No reason to wait - I believe the Z170 motherboards will support the Kaby Lake chips with a BIOS update.