Intel series 9 chipset is a joke

[Bigwood daddy]

hey guys its been around a year now since intel lanuched its 9 series chipset that supposed to support intel 5th generation and yet , there are no 5th generation processors desktop in the market but only some reviews on web .there is no even a single unboxing video of one them on web . Also the chipset did not bring a wide improvements over its previous series 8 chipset ( except for M2.Sata) . and now skylake is around to be shine with its own chipset. I guess intel series 9 chipset was for marketing no more.

 

[profoundnoah]

X99 is the chipset for 5th Generation Intel processors at the moment. Currently there are three desktop processors of the 5th Generation: The 5820k, The 5930k, and the 5960X. Z97 was intended primarily for the 4th gen processors such as the i5 4690k, or the i7 4790K. Skylake is over-hyped in my opinion, since the performance increase when considering the price is going to be very negligible. Z97 boards (based on the intel 9) are selling very well.

 

[synphul]

It's no different than z68 and z77. All z77 added was extra usb 3.0, the ability to run 3 monitors instead of just two and a couple other minor upgrades. Same thing with z77 vs z87, just a handful of mild differences. Motherboards/chipsets don't improve by leaps and bounds. It doesn't make them a joke. The z97/h97 added additional features similar to the rest of the chipset upgrades. It wasn't purely for broadwell. Broadwell's been a fiasco for the most part anyway so no big loss there. Broadwell is just a die shrink of haswell and as a result focuses on efficiency not any major performance benefits. If you're already running a 9 series chipset then I wouldn't be too concerned by skylake either since by the time you need to upgrade your 9 series you'll probably skip skylake/cannonlake's z107 chipset all together.

 

[Bigwood daddy]

X99 is the chipset for 5th Generation Intel processors at the moment. Currently there are three desktop processors of the 5th Generation: The 5820k, The 5930k, and the 5960X. Z97 was intended primarily for the 4th gen processors such as the i5 4690k, or the i7 4790K. Skylake is over-hyped in my opinion, since the performance increase when considering the price is going to be very negligible. Z97 boards (based on the intel 9) are selling very well.

but most motherboard with Intel series 8 chipset realsed bios to supports intel core i5 4690k and i7 4790k devil canyon product line once its launched, z97 boards are selling very well indeed, thats because their prices are almost very close (the same) to z87 chipset prices . I see it as another z87 but rebadged for marketing purpose. also I just notice that the three desktop processors you mentioned are not 5th generation processors they are based on Haswell architecture which is 22nm but the two desktop processors for the 5th generation are officially launched on their website called broadwell are core i5 and core i7 here is the link http://ark.intel.com/products/codename/38530/Broadwell#@Desktop

 

[profoundnoah]

Nope, Z97's offer USB 3, and the latest from intel. Although it is still very similar to the Z87.

 

[Bigwood daddy]

Nope, Z97's offer USB 3, and the latest from intel. Although it is still very similar to the Z87.

z87 offer usb 3 too as well as h81 although i have asus h81 with 2 native usb 3 , few days ago asus realsed bios 2007 for h81 chipset to support usb 3.1 cards

 

[synphul]

Not sure what to tell you, if you're unhappy or feel the z97 isn't worth your time simply don't buy it lol. Buy a z87 instead. Chances are unless you had an i3 or a locked core i5 and decided to upgrade to an i7, most people with z87's and the corresponding cpu wouldn't be upgrading to one that used z97 anyway. That would be pointless, like someone upgrading from sandy to ivy. If I already had a z87 I'd probably keep it. For those of us like myself who had the z97 and the additional features available when it was time to upgrade, why go backwards and buy older tech? In spite of a socket change, new chipset, a couple additional pcie lanes and ddr4 support, I don't think the upgrade from z97 to z107 is worth it either. Not really worth worrying about two motherboards, chipsets or what have you right next to each other, for any meaningful upgrade it's best to wait and upgrade at least a tier or two higher. Which means easily skipping entire generations of chipset/socket and cpu all together.

 

[photonboy]

And how many people would buy a motherboard with this chipset and plan to upgrade to 5th gen in only a year anyway?

Great chipset. The issue isn't even the chipset for this post but rather that Intel had difficulty manufacturing the new CPU's.

As for it not bringing "wide improvements"?

Umm... what exactly did you want? Again, very few people would buy a motherboard with this chipset and have any reason to complain. I'm still "only" using an i7-3770K which functions perfectly so thank you Intel.