Knowing intel, they won't do it.. From what i saw initially 8core was bound to z390 because of "different" power management that's "missing" on z370. That said, same shit as z87 vs z97 all over again.. I could plug-in broadwell on my mobo, I even flashed IME for it using z97 flasher and it worked, but for that it bugged my current haswell pcie bclk, maybe it would have worked different by broadwell, but I flashed back since I didn't have the intention to switch to 5775c.. That said z370 might work with forced IME but at own risk.

Well while i do not like the need of yet another chipset for 2 extra cores well we knew about 390 before the lunch of z370 no? Backwards compatibility itwill also be nice say your z270 board breaks down after warranty is over having the option to replace it with a z390 and keep your 7700 as long as it covers is also something i would love to see even if there are features disabled because the cpu does not support em

Emille:

I guess Samsung, Gigabyte, GPU-Z and Crystal Mark/Crystal Disk are all wrong then, 2 argumentative forum users online clearly know better. You and the guy who claimed they would run at x1 speed, both without any evidence, just an AMD chip on their shoulder. Stop lying already.

And you did not seem to have a good childhood, my mother taught me not to accuse someone of lying before I can provide a proof that he (or she) did. Please behave yourself. You still haven't posted the "parallel results" (benching every component, GFX and both m.2 SSDs) at the same time, but argue about others to provide evidence?! I googled it for you in about 1 minute to have an example of throttling: http://www.legitreviews.com/nvidia-evga-geforce-gtx-1060-video-card-review_184301/11 or picture link: http://www.legitreviews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/fanstop-gtx1060.jpg See "bus interface". Compare ... @Agent-A01: *thumbs up* 386SX

I do not think he was lying to be honest , i think he genuine though that every m2 drive he has can run at the same time full speed with out problems , although the way he came out calling people cavemen and liers made him he has to defend his claims at all cost i would have jumped in but the guys did a great job already i had nothing useful to add on this matter!

Venix:

I do not think he was lying to be honest , i think he genuine though that every m2 drive he has can run at the same time full speed with out problems , although the way he came out calling people cavemen and liers made him he has to defend his claims at all cost i would have jumped in but the guys did a great job already i had nothing useful to add on this matter!

Yeah,i do not think either that he was lying,you see in his answers that he is not let's say very informed.Nobody of us knows everything that is why we have this nice little place:):):);) to ask questions and to find out a bit more about technology.