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Will all Z97 boards be compatible with Broadwell?

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tracerit

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Ran across an article that listed three Z97 motherboards that will support Broadwell so now I'm wondering if it'll just be those three or any Z97 board will be compatible.
 
I would imagine most of the motherboards from popular motherboard manufacturers like Asus, Gigabyte, MSI etc would be updated 🙂
 
ShintaiDK said:
It depends on the mobo maker. Z87 can be broadwell compatible too for example.
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I thought that z87 would not be compatible with Broadwell because of the chip having a different number of pins or something.

So the z87 & z97 would be compatible with Haswell & Haswell Refresh, but Broadwell would be limited to z97 and whatever new chipset comes out for it.
 
AllWhacked said:
I thought that z87 would not be compatible with Broadwell because of the chip having a different number of pins or something.

So the z87 & z97 would be compatible with Haswell & Haswell Refresh, but Broadwell would be limited to z97 and whatever new chipset comes out for it.
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Z87 and Z97 are identical.

The 100 series chipsets are for Skylake(And shrink) only.

The difference with Broadwell is completely unrelated to the chipset.
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Any mobo maker can implement this. Most already did on 8 series boards. This is something mobo makers have known for atleast a year.
 
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