Really tempted to change to LGA 1150

[jana519]

Currently have an LGA 1155 setup, but the platforms for LGA 1150 are so very nice. I'm talking about some Z97 mini-ITX boards that have AC wifi, on-board audio amp, 2 mPCIe slots, and more. It's really tempting since I have a budget Gigabyte board that has none of those things. Say I spend $150 to change platforms, how regretful am I going to be when Skylake comes out? Also is Z97 going to support Broadwell? I've heard rumors about Broadwell being BGA on desktop....

 

[NostaSeronx]

Skylake-S (Locked, apparently) will come out sometime Q2 2015. Which is 9 to 11 months out including the rest of August.

Will you be willing to wait for LGA 1151?

I'm recommend going for a Micro ATX for LGA2011-3(HSW-E) or Micro ATX for LGA1151(SKL-S).

 

[jana519]

Skylake-S (Locked, apparently) will come out sometime Q2 2015. Which is 9 to 11 months out including the rest of August.

Will you be willing to wait for LGA 1151?

I'm recommend going for a Micro ATX for LGA2011-3(HSW-E) or Micro ATX for LGA1151(SKL-S).

Hmmm, that makes sense. That's a bit far out, think I'll just switch over to LGA 1150 now than wait a year or so for Skylake.

 

[jihe]

Micro ATX for LGA2011-3(HSW-E)

What? If I go LGA2011 I want ALL the memory slots and pcie slots!

 

[SPBHM]

you didn't say anything about the CPUs, I mean the 1155 you have and the 1150 you want, more CPU performance is normally why people go with a new platform.

 

[daveybrat]

Go for it. And Z97 chipset boards are compatible with Broadwell when they come out.

 

[AkumaX]

Go for it. And Z97 chipset boards are compatible with Broadwell when they come out.

Is there going to be a new chipset for Broadwell when it gets released? Or is Z97 it?

 

[Rvenger]

Is there going to be a new chipset for Broadwell when it gets released? Or is Z97 it?

I really hope z97 is it, but I did manage a better overclock with my Asus Z97-A with cooler temperatures on my 4770k over my old Gigabyte Z87-UD4H. I am not a big Asus fan but this board has a lot of good features for the price.

 

[MiddleOfTheRoad]

Currently have an LGA 1155 setup, but the platforms for LGA 1150 are so very nice. I'm talking about some Z97 mini-ITX boards that have AC wifi, on-board audio amp, 2 mPCIe slots, and more. It's really tempting since I have a budget Gigabyte board that has none of those things. Say I spend $150 to change platforms, how regretful am I going to be when Skylake comes out? Also is Z97 going to support Broadwell? I've heard rumors about Broadwell being BGA on desktop....

The unlocked Pentium G3258 is a really cheap way to move to 1150 -- and offers incredible performance. You can always swap the CPU later on if you need more cores. If you're just playing games, an overclocked G3258 is a great start.... The money you save on the Pentium, you can use towards a strong video card.

 

[Xibyth]

If your on an i5 or i7 k edition, I wouldn't worry about it at all, or like someone just said go for 2011. PCIE lanes is the big deal for gamers, if your doing CxF or SLi. Otherwise your not going to get much benifit from it, even for multithreaded applications. 2017 is the year we are going to be waiting for in terms of a 'good'(enthusiast's excluded since they upgrade every release) reason to update or systems core components aside from GPU's. Anyone one on the high end of the 600 and 700 GTX series is waiting for the GTX 880 and 870. Nonetheless, though I use a 4770, I don't see any real diffence between it and the 3770 or the newer boards. The lack of native z97 support for the M.2 socket really was the killer for me, though it's not going to benifit from it unless they surpass the 480MB Xfer rates average on those, and the lack of SATA 10Gb\s for RAID 0 ssd's since the 6Gb\s which nearly gets capped off one SSD.