What is Intel Z97?

[turkey3_scratch]

It confuses me because I know the processor socket is something such as LGA1150 so what is Z97?

 

[drumminandstuff93]

It's the chipset which can control a wide variety of things on the motherboard and communicates with the CPU: http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/chipsets/performance-chipsets/z97-chipset.html

 

[Dark Lord of Tech]

http://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Z97-vs-H97-What-is-the-Difference-562/
Z97 vs H97 - What is the Difference?

 

[mlga91]

Z97 (and h97,h81, etc) AKA chipset is something like an intermediator, between the cpu and pci express lanes, sata drives, usb, lan, among other things.