Preparing for Skylake
Even though Intel just recently added to its Broadwell line with the first LGA socket chips to sport Iris Pro 6200 graphics, the CPUs we're really waiting for are still right around the corner. We're talking about Skylake, which will require a new motherboard (due to a socket change) and new RAM (DDR4). Several DDR4 memory kits are already available, and now we're starting to see some Intel Z170 chipset boards appear for Skylake, such as the one Biostar showed us.
It's another high end motherboard from Biostar, which seems to be working hard to shed its reputation as a low end player. The board has flexible storage connectivity options -- PCI-E M.2, SATA Express, and USB 3.1 Type C, to name a few.
In keeping with the high end theme, there's a touch panel on the motherboard itself to turn the board on and off, as well as overclock. Other features include a 14-phase power design, all solid capacitors, three PCI-E x16 slots, three PCI-E x1 slots, HDMI and DVI output, and 8-channel audio.
Biostar's Z170 board will be available in August for around $220.
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