It is mildly overclocked, to 4.3GHz, and it has been extremely reliable over the years as I have used it for much of my daily work. It was about the fastest mainstream system that I could build 3.5 years ago. This system uses an ASUS P8Z77-V Deluxe motherboard, with one 512GB OCZ Vertex 4 SSD.
Later this year we expect the B150, Q150 and H110 business and value chipsets as well.Back when I started at SQLskills in May of 2012, I built myself a pretty nice Z77 chipset system with an Intel Core i7-3770K Ivy Bridge processor and 32GB of RAM, running Windows 7 Enterprise Edition. Next to the increase in PCI-Express lanes (16+20) a pretty big thing is DDR4 memory support, albeit that is linked through the processor's memory controllers, not the PCH. So your SATA / M.2 devices will not hog valuable PCI-Express lanes from the processor for graphics. Z170 will be the platform used by you guys, you can expect PCI Express 3.0 with 16 links controlled by the processor and another 8 to 4 links through the PCH. Interesting to know is that the processor will drive 16 PCI-Express gen 3.0 lanes and then the PCH will drive another 20 PCI-Express gen 3.0 lanes. Z170 offers a wider range of features, you will see support for up-to six SATA3 devices, support for M.2, U2 but also USB 3.1 is going to be a common thing you will see with these motherboards. The Z170 chipset is, however, targeted at mainstream performance and enthusiast end users allowing much more tweaking and providing performance features. For end consumers like you and me the H170 chipset will be less performance targeted and comes with better support for HTPC monitor connectivity. You cannot stick to the Series 9 Chipset from Intel. With the Skylake for desktop processors comes yet again a new motherboard chipset. Tweet PCH - The Platform Controller Hub Chipsets
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