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pat39576
Thanks for pointing these out, I kind of need a new board if I want to use the front panel USB ports since my current Z170 boards header is beat up and I have to bend pins to use it and the cable comes out is I bump it. But a big point for me is the spacing on the 2 PCIe x16 slots. I personally use 2 GTX1070s and spacing does not exist on the Z170 FTW board I use. If I didn't plan on saving for the possible Skylake-X that should come out, I would get the board even if I was sticking with skylake, supposing that skylake works in it which it should.

Yes, I'm so glad that EVGA noted the prior problems and correct those on this new Z270 motherboard.  I did not purchase a 2nd GTX 1070 FTW due to the motherboards slot tightness situation.  Sounds like you may need to upgrade just to allow you use of a new usb header for your front panel.  I am already upgrading my GTX 1070 FTW ACX 3.0 to the ICX model and then later progressing further on to buying the GTX 1080 instead due to the incoming games progressing to 4K.  Two GTX 1080's would definitely allow me to go full extreme 4K with all games set to max.  

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i debating on whether to step-up from the z170 classy K for $119.53 or just stick with it. only plan on one GPU so slot spacing doesn't matter to much, u.2 does not interest me since the drives are crazy priced right now and you can get the m.2 adapter for them anyway. optane its not available yet. extra USB 3.0 doesn't matter since my case only has one 3.0 connector ( what ever happened to the extra goodies you used to get with mother boards? ) so about the only thing that does interest me is the heat-pipe evga logo below the CPU slot lol. if it was only cheaper

quadlatte
i debating on whether to step-up from the z170 classy K for $119.53 or just stick with it. only plan on one GPU so slot spacing doesn't matter to much, u.2 does not interest me since the drives are crazy priced right now and you can get the m.2 adapter for them anyway. optane its not available yet. extra USB 3.0 doesn't matter since my case only has one 3.0 connector ( what ever happened to the extra goodies you used to get with mother boards? ) so about the only thing that does interest me is the heat-pipe evga logo below the CPU slot lol. if it was only cheaper

I would step-up. 
EVGA Z270 Classified K is real high end E-ATX motherboard.
I really like this new board for Kaby Lake. If you have chance to replace and CPU maybe you will be able to OC to 5.0GHz.
Only 500MHz need for i7-7700K to hit magic number 5. Small number of people used any Intel CPU on 5.0GHz 24/7... now is chance.
And price is not bad, 299$ for..

 

I was glad to see the Z270 finally hit the Step Up list!  I only had 18 days to Step Up from Z170 to Z270 so I started the Step Up.  Hopefully I'll get into a quere slot one day soon.  Given how well built and laid out the new Z270 Classified K is, there was just too many plus's +++++ not to go ahead and make the Step Up while I had a (days) chance. 

Cordorb
Great- now get to building - because I have questions :-)
 
AND this MB build I have ALL EVGA parts.
 
Except I am not giving up my Macally mouse

Ready to build, then that's awesome!  For me, I'm NOT giving up my EVGA RGB Torq X10 Gaming mouse which, the more I use it, the more I love it!!! 

Vlada011

quadlatte
i debating on whether to step-up from the z170 classy K for $119.53 or just stick with it. only plan on one GPU so slot spacing doesn't matter to much, u.2 does not interest me since the drives are crazy priced right now and you can get the m.2 adapter for them anyway. optane its not available yet. extra USB 3.0 doesn't matter since my case only has one 3.0 connector ( what ever happened to the extra goodies you used to get with mother boards? ) so about the only thing that does interest me is the heat-pipe evga logo below the CPU slot lol. if it was only cheaper

I would step-up. 
EVGA Z270 Classified K is real high end E-ATX motherboard.
I really like this new board for Kaby Lake. If you have chance to replace and CPU maybe you will be able to OC to 5.0GHz.
Only 500MHz need for i7-7700K to hit magic number 5. Small number of people used any Intel CPU on 5.0GHz 24/7... now is chance.
And price is not bad, 299$ for..

 

i signed up for the stepup, i have yet to order my cpu yet but yes it will be the i7-7700k that is going in. the 170 have never has even been powered on so they are getting back basically a brand new board lol
one of the main reasons i did the stepup was the look, it just looks classifiedish, my last system was a x58 e760 classified and it looked like nothing else, the red e on the cooler and other things the regular board didn't have, that is high end area, the 170k looked so similar to the ftw that they should have not called it a classified board.