Intel LGA 1151 Official Specifications and Complete ASUS Z170 Lineup Leaked - "ASUS Deluxe Socket" Will Not Conform to Official Specs

ASUS has had a pretty admirable history of ever ignoring Intel's official specifications of their LGA sockets and introducing their exclusive revisions. While this is a risky move which can result in compatibility and stability problems, they have managed to pull it off successfully in the past with their "OC Socket". As the introduction of the LGA 1151 draws closer, history is repeating itself with the Z170 ASUS Deluxe Socket (via Benchlife.info).

An image of the ASUS Z170 Palatial Socket. @Benchlife.info

ASUS Z170 lineup and LGA 1151 official specs leaked - deluxe socket pictured

Equally many of you will know LGA stands for State Grid Array, while the succeeding number depicts the amount of pins the socket has. As such, I take always found it kind of funny that ASUS tends to call its not-Intel specified sockets the same as the Intel counterparts. For eg, the LGA 1151 Deluxe Socket from ASUS, does not have 1151 pins, rather quite a few more. Given below is the official 1151 specifications that Add in Board Partners are to adhere to:

The motherboard manufacturers are supposed to identify a pivot for every pad present on the processor. In the case of Skylake-S processors, this number is exactly 1151. This is why most LGA 1151 sockets will take exactly 1151 pins - that is, except ASUS. In the case of the X99 OC Socket, the move was supposed to bring higher stability while overclocking and amend power management to the processor. In the case of the ASUS Deluxe Socket even so, there don't seem to be any credible advantages (none that our source have reported at any rate).

ASUS is planning to unveil the following motherboards for the Z170 chipset:

• ASUS (Z170) Maximus Eight Ranger
• ASUS (Z170) Maximus VIII Hero
• ASUS (Z170) Maximus VIII Gene
• ASUS (Z170) Maximus Eight Extreme
• ASUS Z170 Deluxe
• ASUS Z170-K
• ASUS Z170-A
• ASUS Z170 Pro (Cancelled)
• ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming

There volition also be "AR" variants of the Palatial and A variants. AR appears to exist a codename for Alpine Ridge, which is the side by side generation thunderbolt controller for Skylake processors. Tall Ridge will double the bandwidth of the interface from 20 Gb/s to 40 Gb/s while cutting the ability consumption by one-half. That'south not it either, Tall Ridge is a multipurpose connection and can churn out HDMI ii.0, USB 3.0 and DP 1.2, non to mention provide charging of upto 100 Watts power.

Intel is readying its Z170 platform for launch on the 5th of August while some of the 170 series will follow backside on 30th August. Many manufacturers take already teased Z170 boards, then the socket isn't exactly top secret. In today'southward world, the AIB that tin can offering the slightest advantage will be the 1 that consumers will buy, since we are talking about heavy uniformity in AIB products and in the example of ASUS - this could be the Palatial Socket.

Source: https://wccftech.com/intel-lga-1151-official-specifications-asus-deluxe-socket-z170/

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