So due to all the leaks happening now, it's starting to look like a launch in roughly 1 month after all? To me that would be a good indication that there will be backwards compatibility added on Z270 (and maybe Z170).
I'm hoping so. Considering we've been hearing that Z370 is pretty much just a rebrand and the real deal (Z390) won't launch until the rest of the mainstream CPUs do much later down the road, it would be *really* slimy of Intel to require people to basically repurchase their Z270's under a new name just to get earlier access to the 8700k, and then release the real mobos a few months later. On the flip side, it's really unusual for Intel to go this long without requiring a new mobo, so we'll see.