Old Asus Z170 Pro - skylake X support ? maybe ?

[ikonia]

I've found an old motherboard in a case which is a Asus Z170-Pro (not pro gaming).

it has a sock 1151 6 generation intel support, booting it, it's on the latest bios that was released. its got ram and everything in it, so I was wondering if I got a CPU in it, it would be quite a handy little machine for some multi-tasking work.

What are the odds it would support one of the later multi-core CPU's eg: the skylake X 6 core or 8 core CPU's I see various debate on it, curious to hear some more experienced views on it, or even someone who's done it before as I know there are some guys who try this sort of stuff out on here.

from my own reading it feels like a hard "no" as I think the chipset is wrong to support these cpus, but I'm well out of the loop on hardware these days.

thanks.

[Spreadie]

Skylake X uses socket 2066.

The top end CPU you can put in that board is a 4c/8t Kabylake 7700K.

[ikonia]

Skylake X uses socket 2066.

The top end CPU you can put in that board is a 4c/8t Kabylake 7700K.

nice one, I hadn't even noticed the socket difference, odd I see loads of threads discussing it but no one calls this out ??

thank you for that.