Asus lays its hand of high-end Z270 motherboards on the table

Intel's Kaby Lake seventh-generation processors may not offer a huge leap over the previous-generation Skylake chips, but they're a big release nonetheless. The fine people at Asus have created a number of new motherboards based on the range-topping Z270 desktop chipset. The company's Edge Up blog has a detailed report on what to expect from the new motherboards.

The biggest difference between Z170 and Z270 is an increase in front-side I/O lanes from 26 to 30. This bump doesn't effect SLI or Crossfire configurations in any way. Using an M.2 ...