Is Win7 running on LGA1151 + Skylake Motherboards?

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  1. ThrashZone
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    Plenty of other boards and cpu's around
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  3. Alling
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    AddRAM said:
    Then I don`t understand why W7 wouldn`t install on a Z170 board, even after reading that article, so......

    I`m befuttled

    I mean it`s not like any manufacturer makes a board for a certain OS, unless I`m missing something here.
    Because Z170, unlike its predecessors, does not support EHCI, only xHCI, and Windows 7 installation from a USB drive requires EHCI.

    The problem begins with the fact that Windows 7 does not have the code to support master xHCI based installation via USB, with only installation over EHCI allowed.
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  4. Alling
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    ThrashZone said:
    Plenty of other boards and cpu's around
    Why would he want to buy anything other than Skylake? And what would that be? The only reasonable alternative is Haswell-E, but it's significantly more expensive and completely overkill unless he needs the cores and/or the PCIe lanes.
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  6. AddRAM
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    "Because Z170, unlike its predecessors, does not support EHCI, only xHCI, and Windows 7 installation from a USB drive requires EHCI."

    Yes, I read that, So then install from a dvd.
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  7. ThrashZone
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    I wasn't all that impressed :/
    Skylake Gets Mixed Reviews
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  8. AddRAM
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    Seriously, is a 6700K any better then a 4790K ?

    DDR4 suppport, what else ????

    And I don`t care about it`s on board graphics, I personally would never use them.
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  10. ThrashZone
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    Mobile platform
    I suppose it will fit in a surface
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  11. AddRAM
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    Anywho, maybe this will help the OP

    https://www.google.com/webhp?sourcei...un+on+skylake+

    Bottom line is, they want you to install 10. ( Just ridiculus in my opinion but hey, they are in cahoots )

    You want the latest hardware, install 10, you wanna install 7, Z87 and Z97 are fine.

    The latest does not necassarily mean the greatest.
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  12. ThrashZone
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    Left out x99 and 5960x
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  13. AddRAM
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    My bad
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