Will a non K CPU work with a Z97 motherboard?

[lukeybash123]

Will a non K cpu work with a Z97 motherboard? Because I know H97 are specifically for Non-k CPUs. I'm not going to overclock so I thought the extra for a K CPU was pointless.

 

[turkey3_scratch]

Yes it will work. The only difference is the motherboard has an available feature that will not be used (overclocking).

 

[lunyone]

Yes Z97 will work with any Socket 1150 CPU (check Motherboard support list, but Z97 should cover pretty much any socket 1150 CPU's, including Celeron/Pentium/etc.).

 

[Dylzan]

Z97 boards normally have a few extra power phases/higher quality power delivery systems in order to acheive higher and more stable overclocks if you were to do so.

 

[endeavour37a]

One other important factor to consider, the H97 will not split the PCIe root allowing SLI or XFire, so if you plan on having a pair of graphics cards sometime in the future the Z97 is the way to go.